Dr. Kara Nance in Schaumburg.. she used Health Diagnostic Lab.. she also had a regimen with high chol. patients where she put them on this awful sugary tasting shake for I think two meals a day.. I think it had sucralose in it.. I was like.. what the heck! So I didn't stick to it. She's very nice an...

oh great.. just read the thread on Lectins.. for realz people? well, at least I pressure cook them.. good God

Thanks merouleau and Stavia .. I'll check those links too. We had a big dinner at church Sunday.. I looked at those glittery icing covered sugar cookes and broke off a piece.. put it in my mouth.. chewed it a little.. ran to bathroom and spit it out lol. But my Instant Pot bean/veggie dinner I broug...

Someone mentioned red yeast rice .. I was looking it up and found this old Mercola article.. at least he made me feel a little better about my chol. number lol.. but wondering what opinion is of him http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... yeast.aspx

Thank you ladies.. I'll read the intro for sure. I haven't had sugar of any kind since last Wed. .. cold turkey. The fear is bigger than the craving at this point. Have been eating totally clean.. mostly Dr. Ess. style. I have hardly eaten animal products for a couple months at least.. except of cou...

I have not been following a healthy enough diet and just had a 300 on my cholesterol.. I'm confused about all the talk of getting oil in, fats, etc. If you were in my shoes and working first on getting my numbers down.. and my heart protected.. would you still be doing oils? animal fats? I was tryin...

this is all good to read.. I had my freak out post a couple year's ago.. it gets much better. I made some changes.. but I flaked on the diet changes which I regret.

I do have a question.. is there value in finding out sibling results other than that they need to know for health reasons?

I've never used 23andme .. my APOE diag. was part of my Choles. panel my old doc did .. without my knowledge.. that sent me spiraling. I guess I'm glad I know most days now.. but, ya know.

"his little LDL cholesterol with the tail might be associated with longevity." ooh lala! and Julie.. actually those numbers of mine were not my most recent one's unfort. My trigs are 121 LDL 205 .. I haven't eaten anything unhealthy in the last 3 days .. I should have paid attention when I...

Katie .. so sorry .. some of this I don't understand.. myopathy.. Promethease .. 9P21 "Simvastatin, a lipidophilic statin, might be even AD protective, but I'm not one as I have a propensity for myopathy. Check Promethease for the 9P21 cardiac genetic risks, statin sensitivity and statin myopat...