I’m not at peace with death, but I accept it. From my early adult years on I have taken time to think about my mortality. Apologies in advance, I am going to write some harsh truths about dementia from my own experience, so please stop here if you do not want to read them. I’ve read stories here abo...

Best wishes to tinamalone. I learned from Julie G’s link, and now I am going to be prepared with written instructions for any future hospital entry. 11 months ago I was suddenly struck with acute pericarditis. I was in hospital three days for diagnosis, observation, and initial treatment. To my horr...

Count me in - however it seems that this is in the proposal stage and actual signup will be different,
I'm 4/4, 69 years, and could also cajole my 35 year old son in another major city who is 4/4.

Rather, 0.49 < Optimal < 1.28

SoCalGuy said ....I also recall hearing in the Attia podcast that some statins like atorvastatin and simvastatin can get into the brain which should be a big concern for anyone with an APOE 4 allele or two. I asked my doc to measure desmosterol but she indicated she'd have no idea how to read the re...

I was curious about this and searched. In case making it official helps anybody, a letter was published in a medical journal reporting a case of diarrhea starting from ingestion of melatonin and ending with its cessation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25659397 Melatonin as a probable cause of ...

Thanks very much for your informed insights, Stavia. I’m interested in the sterol panel to monitor changes in desmosterol as a cognition biomarker. I don’t understand the cholesterol absorption issues yet, but plan to self-teach it from the Attia-Dayspring material next week. I found more labs offer...

My new NMR lipid test results are bad. Here’s my tentative plan. I’ll start the rosuvastatin at 5mg every other day and monitor basic levels at home, watching for excessively lowered cholesterol. Also will tune lifestyle. Will ask the cardiologist or otherwise measure desmosterol as marker of cognit...

Here are USDA data, ranking the proportion of DHA in fish. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-Consumer/ I couldn't find estimates of phospholipid-bound DHA (and EPA) for different species of fish. In my OP I cited studies showing high proportions of phospholipid in DHA from caviar, r...

I am grateful to all who spent some of their precious time sharing information and sympathy with me. I’ve been indecisive avoiding the lipids issue for several years and your comments have moved me to action. My cardiologist’s advice is premised on my last blood test in June 2018. It occurred to me ...