I have a mostly healthy diet with a day or two in the month where I eat junk, like popcorn and apple pie with ice cream
I recently started mixing Amazing Grass Superfoods and Wheat grass in my morning smoothies. My smoothies include a helping of berries: blue, black, and strawberries with banana and grape juice. Not sure if the superfoods have causes this grainy stool, but I am concerned since it lasts for a couple of days.
Chlorella and Spirulina. Many positive claims are based on research done on individual nutrients that Spirulina contains, such as GLA, various antioxidants, etc., rather than on direct research using Spirulina. What follows is research on the health and healing effects of Spirulina. In vitro research (e.g.
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People who ate about a half cup a day of sprouts lowered their total cholesterol by an average of 15 points, and women in the study raised their good cholesterol by 8 points—in just 1 week, found a Japanese pilot study.
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Exposure to UV sunlight over time may lead to an eye condition called macular degeneration, which is the number one cause of blindness in US seniors.
Physical activity is a good anti-anxiety and self-esteem booster. Healthy diet and/or supplements and vitamins are always good to compensate the lack of nutriments
we are not getting in all the processed food and nutriments we lose by cooking our foods. It has been proven that you are more prone to physical and mental illness while lacking body's needs in nutriments.
With multiple servings of fruits and vegetables and a blend of 38 herbs and nutrient-rich superfoods, Greens provides naturally occurring, bioavailable vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, and enzymes to give your already well-balanced diet a nutritional boost.
This study found that some of the most commonly eaten shellfish, including oysters, crabs, clams, shrimp and mussels, showed no evidence of raising cholesterol levels. Crab and clams actually lowered the LDL levels (bad cholesterol). Mussels and oysters also lowered LDL, while raising HDLs. Fish and seafood contain a small amount of cholesterol, but are also rich in healthy, unsaturated fat and low in saturated fat, the type of fat that tends to raise blood cholesterol..
Why does he want to bring your cholesterol down. Didn't you ask him. It looks normal to me. You asked about your ALT on another post and you were told by numerous members not to worry about it. Stop obsessing and just finish the treatment.
what happens is the lack of hormone keeps the body from producing LSL receptors and these are receptors that help remove the bad cholesterol from the body. When the number of the receptors decrease, LSL accumulates in the bloodstream which then causes the increase in your LDL and total cholesterol levels.
This can cause hardening of the arteries and of course eventually lead to heart attack.
I use simvastatin to lower the cholesterol and lisinopril to lower the bp. The lisinopril works w/o the simvastatin and v.v.
Went right out and got the Sun Chlorella, took it as soon as I got in the car w/some water (only 2 tabs), and about 5 minutes later I tasted metal first then like a coolness..??..weird - VERY weird. Went grocery shopping - got my fav (Liverwurst...I know ewwwee..but it's YUMMY!!). I came home and made a quick sandwich and took 4 more. Will let you know what other results are, but if it helps, I'll try ANYTHING!!!!
Thanx!!
Plan healthy meals full of pregnancy superfoods.
There is much controversy about cholesterol, but it is muted because of pharmaceutical financial interests in statins. Half of those who die of strokes or heart attacks have no history of high cholesterol. DeBakey discounted cholesterol. My own doctor pays no attention to it. What is the true role of cholesterol and how should one proceed? I don't know, but I won't take Lipitor.
For the most part, my cholesterol goes with thyroid -- thyroid hormones (FT3 and FT4) go down, cholesterol goes up; thyroid hormones go up, cholesterol goes down. I do find that exercise also has a direct reflection on my cholesterol levels. Even with relatively good thyroid levels, my cholesterol stayed on the high side, until I started walking 3-6 miles/day; then it dropped to normal levels.
Thank you and yes im taking it easy slow walks an hour a day. I eat all the pregnancy superfoods. And vitamins of course. Not craving junk.
My uderstanding is that trans fats are converted mostly to LDL cholesterol which binds to your HDL cholesterol and is eliminated though the liver. Unfortunately, in addition to placing more LDL cholesterol into your system it also lowers your good HDL cholesterol, less HDL means less capacity to eliminate LD cholesterol from your blood.
R u guys sure about these cholesterol readings b/c I'm a RN and never heard of readings like that. You have your good cholesterol HDL which should be just over 50, then your bad LDL which should be under 100 and then your total cholesterol which should be under 200 preferably around 100. Hope this helps you guys. Potassium level should be 3.5 to 5.3.
However, raw eggs actually help fight cholesterol because raw egg yolks contain the best quality lecithin of any food, and lecithin helps liquefy cholesterol and keep it moving. Remember, cholesterol by itself isn't dangerous, it's only when it oxidizes that it is. I don't think the latest research backs up such a strict restriction on egg consumption.
I can't answer your question but wanted to let you know that none of us are doctors here, it is just HCV patients helping each other. We do have a lot of members with a wide range of experiences though, and I hope someone will come along who knows the answer to your question. Personally, I have not heard of any connection, and I can also say that my personal experience would argue "no" to your question.
Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences Thyroid dysfunction and total cholesterol - experience in a tertiary care hospital
"Hypothyroidism is defined as a deficiency of thyroid hormones resulting from reduced secretion of both T4 and T3 [1]. Biochemically decrease in T4 and T3 concentrations lead to hyper secretion of pituitary TSH and an amplified increase in serum TSH levels.
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