Cholesterol Lowering Supplements

generic2012 wrote: »

Edit: If some one tells you a specific food or a list of specific foods are good, be weary.

Oryx wrote: »

My cholesterol is high, but no breakdown given.

ford2600 wrote: »

From my reading, TC number tells you nothing and co relates poorly with cvd risk.

TC/HDL ratio HDL/Triglycerides ratio maybe better predictors.

Also Lpa, ldl particle number ApoB, maybe better predictors.

Given cvd is at heart a disease of inflammation, inflammation markers are also of interest.

Among the huge numbers of populations which contradict the saturated fat/cholesterol/cvd model(France, Switzerland, Ukraine,) are the Aborigines who despite having an average TC under 5 have the highest cvd rates in the world.

Given how important a molecule cholesterol is and it's almost universal presence in human cells I'dbe thinking long and hard about limiting it's intake and most certainly about a drug which inhibits its production along with qb10.

It's some important our bodies have evolved to produce most of what's needed. Yet this substance has a dirty name.

I've heard that saturated fats help build muscles, store and absorb vitamins?

The human body produces cholesterol daily by the liver and cholesterol, so important that even brain produces small bit as well. I would be very cautious eating those mushrooms.

If you eat too much of it, yeah.

I've lost 12kg since June and have enjoyed ice cream and pizza throughout. 🍕

Shiitake tastes good but in relation to lowering cholesterol only selected strains of shiitake mushroom have enough of Eritadenine. Most likely you would get disappointing results. And we should be looking into the real cause of high cholesterol.

Now you’re contradicting yourself.

In the last post you said you had to be careful eating them as you need cholesterol. Now the results may be disappointing.

FYI, I didn’t recommend shiitakes to lower cholesterol. I was commenting on the ridiculousness of being cautious eating them. They are one if the most widely consumed mushrooms in the world.

And Levels of eritadenine will vary being strains, like any natural foods. Not a reason to be cautious.

As a medical treatment? Sure, stick to medical (if needed) and dietary changes.

but what you said was;

No need to be cautious. They are common edible mushrooms.

Also not sure why you mentioned the importance of cholesterol. Seems irrelevant to discussion about lowering high cholesterol. A cynic might think you were trying to shift the goalposts. *shrug*

Yeah, that's an incredibly bad take.

Trying to lower cholesterol to zero is obviously a bad. It's also not going to happen. But for the vast majority of the population, cholesterol is higher than ideal. And these people could absolutely benefit from lower cholesterol. Suggesting that it's a bad idea for anyone to lower cholesterol is insane.

Can people not just take cholesterol tablets to lower it???

I just mean there is loads of people on cholesterol tablets at a controlled level from their GP.

Wouldn’t that help to lower it? Which you claimed was bad, lol. You can’t even keep your nonsense straight.

Just because you need some cholesterol doesn’t mean that it’s bad to lower high cholesterol. One does not follow from the other.

Zero chance anyone takes you seriously after that one.

If you think that was nonsense then clearly you have the issue. But I can’t tell if you need a doctor or an English teacher.

Reminder of what you said.

Facepalm.

The world is evolving. We have far greater scientific data on nutrition. If you're not going along, you will be left behind. Many of your posts have outdated advice on nutrition. All my posts backed by new research, but sometimes hard to digest specially at a certain age or blind believes...

Just got results back from doctor,my cholesterol is 5.9 is that very bad ?