re: Men - what do you do to lower your triglycerides & cholesterol?

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Processed meat is terrible for you.

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That depends.

I just had my life insurance exam come back. Glucose, hdl/ldl cholesterol, blood pressure, etc were all good/normal but triglycerides were 235.

I eat pretty well and exercise about 4x per week. The only thing I can think of is my carb intake is maybe high, even though I eat whole grain bread. I'd say my daily carb intake is 150-170.

6'2 190, age 33.

I take Atorvastatin.

My doc took me off fish oil. Said it would not hurt but recent reports show it does not help.

I lowered my cholesterol ~20 points by simply eating a high fiber diet. I have taken fish oil for years, too.

I eat oats every morning, and I eat a lot of veggies at each meal. Try to go for potatoes or sweet potatoes with skin on instead of rice. Snacks like apples that are high in fiber.

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Fish oil

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Didn’t do anything for me. Lower weight and stay away from vegetables oils

Fish, oatmeal, veggies, fruit, avocados, garlic, extra virgin cold pressed olive oil, nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios), beet juice, pomegranate juice, green tea, 72% cacoa dark chocolate, apple cider vinegar.

Ok but for years my total cholesterol sat ~200-210, and since eating more fiber (last couple of years) it sits ~175-180.

I'm not arguing the merits of hdl, ldl, sdldl, etc etc because I don't know enough about the intricacies of cholesterol to argue about it, nor do I really care enough to argue. My doctor wanted to see my cholesterol lower, and I did it by eating more fiber.

No butter, little or no cheese and eat oatmeal almost every day. Low fat yogurt is the only dairy I have eaten.

Also an avocado a day, and either walnuts or almonds are good. An apple most every day can be helpful.

I have lost 12 pounds in about a month.

I realize reducing or eliminating cheese is a non-starter for most, but I have never been a huge cheese eater anyway, so it was easy for me.

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I don't disagree with you, but Family History is a huge issue. It is more determinate than anything else in life.

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It's a common pattern: an obese family on a standard American diet of processed foods (vegetable oils and high carbohydrates) suffers from heart attacks and related diseases of metabolic syndrome. They then follow the medical community's outdated guidelines tainted by dubious studies and corrupt politicians trying to satisfy welfare quotas cheaply and eat frequent servings of grains keeping their insulin high throughout the day, alongside polyunsaturated fatty acids that drive insulin resistance in cells and which are prone to inflammation-causing oxidation. Due to high insulin and inflammation the body never undergoes autophagy to clean up its cellular waste and you end up with cell damage (possibly causing cancer). Due to the high insulin, fructose (like that in fruit or juice) which cannot be used by your cells directly like glucose is sent to be converted into fat in the liver. Cholesterol appears as your the body is trying to heal itself, but your doctor doesn't like that due to his fake belief in the lipid hypothesis, and he prescribes statins with a ton of side effects to pointlessly and dangerously lowering cholesterol and creating dementia risks. Insulin resistance begins lending itself to elevating blood sugars, which bond with polyunsaturated fatty acids to create cancerous advanced glycation end products that the body can't clean up due to the lack of autophagy.

Then, after the doctors have killed you, then they use the nebulous "well, it was running in the family!" excuse. After all, the patient would have died in the same way if they kept eating their shitty traditional food or their shitty doctors' food.

But there is a third way.
You could eat foods high in animal fats which protect against inflammation and ignore the "saturated" fats bogey man.
You can cut out the carbs and reduce inflammation, triglycerides, blood sugar levels, insulin, etc. to a natural and safe level.
You can fast to induce autophagy so your body can have time to clean up after itself and rid itself of cancerous wastes.
You can eat organ meats to make sure your body is receiving the proper levels of nutrients that most Americans are deficient in.
You can eat healthy fats to run your body from ketones and become metabolically flexible which will allow you to go longer lengths between meals allowing your body to take a break from the tolls of insulin and digestion.

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Cholesterol causes build up of plaque in your arteries which can cause a stroke and leave incapacitatied for the rest of your life.

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In short, not really.