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How To Lower Cholesterol on Low-Carb Diet?



 
 
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Old August 20th, 2010, 08:02 AM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb,sci.med.nutrition
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Default How To Lower Cholesterol on Low-Carb Diet?

On Aug 20, 1:06*pm, jay wrote:
I think it's rather odd that the cholesterol numbers vary so greatly.


You are not alone. Others, including a relative, who is a doctor, has
told me the same.

You're going from a period where total chol was below 200,
to over 400. *I'd be suspicous of that last reading.


The change was due to a drastic change in diet.
The same has occurred before.

Also, why do you only have total chol for a lot of the readings? *
All my routine chol screenings always have total, ldl, hdl, and triglycerides.


I frequenlty donate blood and they only provide total cholesterol.
Other times, the tests were done at during health screenings, not at
doctor's office. The time it registered 400, they couldn't believe it
either.
They did the test again and got 392 instead.
The person before me had a normal reading.


Wasn't this at the end of Summer when the days are getting shorter
(and temperature going down)? Shorter light period signals the coming
Winter and the body starts preparing for it by increasing cholesterol
production naturally. Increasing cholesterol in cellular membranes
makes them more resistant to freezing temperatures. Also pregnancy
(and cancers) consume lot of cholesterol so sudden drop may signal
either of them.

Taka

On low carb, triglycerides drop like a rock. *
Usually total chol decreases and hdl increases.


On low carb, my TG decreases and HDL increases, just as say.
It seems I need a high amount of fermentable fiber to bring total
down.

Drinking alcohol will cause a quick rise in triglycerides too.


I used to get dark circles under my eyes from consuming small amounts
of red wine. Haven't tried again recently.

I've never seen this kind of wide variation in my
own personal experience regardless of what I eat.
It's widely acknowledged that diet is only a modest component
of your total chol picture anyway. *Genetics plays a bigger role.


Yes, it could be genetics. I used to have xanthelasmas (cholesterol
plaques on eye lid) before making drastic changes in diet. My cousin
who ended up having her colon removed due to "UC" (later diagnosed as
"Crohns") still has them.


 




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