Excellent lipids, Gene. You should be very proud. Thank you for sharing. My diet is pretty similar to yours- perhaps a little more EVOO here. You pique my interest in ezetimbe (or even alpha-cyclodextrin) again. Out of curiosity, have you ever checked beta hydroxy-butyrate levels while on Zetia? I ...

yep the last ones hit a rock going through the rapids as I bumped off the last ledge but it still was good. I forgot to mention that every day I do an overnight fast of 14-16hr and am running at a slight caloric deficit. So my trigs were lower on the last one around 40s and my BG was also lower, but...

This is about my 4 or 5 lab test and during this period I was increasing my carb intake just a bit by adding small quantities of sweet potatoes say >50g and eating various other starchy carbs but in small quantities. My RBC Mg very low at the time. I was rarely exercising at the gym for the last yea...

What has been the best LDLP# reduction achieved by members here? was it 2000 particles? and did it get the person to the ideal safe range? With supplemental B5 & Vitamin E (pantethine + tocotrienols) an average 15g/d SFA intake with moderately high protein, high carb hypercaloric training days ...

"As a side note, you mentioned maintaining an LDL of 60 or 70 was necessary to achieve an LDL-P of 1,000" No I was explaining that in a person with high risk and a positive calcium score to achieve success in regression that is what many doctors have observed in their patients and also fro...

What has been the best LDLP# reduction achieved by members here? was it 2000 particles? and did it get the person to the ideal safe range? Are any of you proposing your own guidelines?? See guidelines http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/133/18/1795 http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2500032-overv...

Gene this is a study (both links are the same study) on the addition of a functional food (phytosterol extract, presumably in a spread) plus ezetimibe on blood lipids over a few weeks. It doesn't support your view that dietary phytosterols from whole food are cardiovascularly an issue. I do agree t...

The normal goal of lipid treatment for high risk people like Sozdds is LDLP#<1000 which brings LDL to between 60-70 too low it could cause problems, but I have seen this in E4's without problems on 2 forums. In order to get regression of plaque this is required and the Calcium scoore will go down an...

"Protein stores throughout the body decrease naturally with age. These storage sites include skeletal muscle, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, hormones, and antibodies. Aging patients have a much higher rate of protein catabolism and a harder time utilizing proteins. This can crea...

This article by Dr Dayspring explains the case of zietia. One should sign up to read it. http://www.lecturepad.org/index.php/commentaries-and-opinions/1295-good-for-statin-but-better-for-statin-ezetimibe-2 I might add that the pathogensis of cardiovascular disease is same as Alz. https://www.ncbi.nl...