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pamojja wrote:In my case numbers are still not perfect too, but have improved in average by 40% (LDL, HDL, trigs) through diet and supplementation alone. Moreover, could get rid of intermittent claudications symptoms from my PAD.
Also plain LDL doesn't tell the whole story, since it can be of the highly atherogenic small dense type, and less so large fluffy kind. Triglycerides close to 50 do indicate LDL is of the harmless kind, close to 150 the dangerous ones.
Triglycerides can be brought down with high dose fish oil (above 3 g of EPA/DHA content daily), but most effectively with a low carb diet.
How is your blood sugar, HbA1c?
Joanna45 wrote:What is your Lipoprotein a levels that is an indicator that your arteries are clogging mine liproprtein is 12 and was 100 when I started the Linus Pauling program ..also take super k from life extensions and niacin 500 mg..
ChuckArbogast wrote:I take it from your reply that my Triglycerides are boarderline high and need to come down even further, is that right? As you can see, they have improved. I have been taking an Omega 3 supplement daily for the entire time on Pauling Therapy, but not at the dosage you recommend. You recommend a low carb diet, is that what you do? If so, what type? I have considered going Keto but don't want to be bothered about checking my ketones to make sure I am in Ketosis. Not sure if that is necessary though. Any thoughts about the diet?
In the labs I have, I don't have HbA1c numbers but do have glu (Glucose) numbers of 80 (4/28/2016), 94 (12/30/2016) & 79 (11/22/2017) and their acceptable ranges are 74-100 mg/dL. I think that similar to HbA1c that you are asking about, right?
Thanks again for your help and any additional info,
Chuck
Joanna45 wrote:My doctor would not do the Lipoprotein a I went on line and used personalabs and they send you to a lab in your area to have it done only cost me around 50 dollars and the results were back in about a week..
pamojja wrote:ChuckArbogast wrote:I take it from your reply that my Triglycerides are boarderline high and need to come down even further, is that right? As you can see, they have improved. I have been taking an Omega 3 supplement daily for the entire time on Pauling Therapy, but not at the dosage you recommend. You recommend a low carb diet, is that what you do? If so, what type? I have considered going Keto but don't want to be bothered about checking my ketones to make sure I am in Ketosis. Not sure if that is necessary though. Any thoughts about the diet?
In the labs I have, I don't have HbA1c numbers but do have glu (Glucose) numbers of 80 (4/28/2016), 94 (12/30/2016) & 79 (11/22/2017) and their acceptable ranges are 74-100 mg/dL. I think that similar to HbA1c that you are asking about, right?
Thanks again for your help and any additional info,
Chuck
Yes, your triglycerides have indeed improved. Some more to go to not have to worry at all about high LDL.
Actually don't recommend low-carb. But to get a cheap blood-glucose meter (or rather one with cheap test-strips, they can add up) and regularly test post-prandial blood glucose for some time. For that you first have to find your highest spike after a meal (usually after 1 hour) by testing every 15 minutes. For example, 45 minutes, 60 minutes, 75 minutes and 90 minutes after a meal. And from then on at the time of your highest blood glucose spike after each meal. That teaches directly which food in what amounts spikes your glucose the most (and thereby drives Triglycerides the most; it's a individual thing - therefore the testing). By reducing or eliminating exactly those food Triglycerides come down most effectively.
The fasting glucose tests alone, you already have, can be deceptive. Because prost-prandial glucose spike could still reach into pre-diabetic areas, causing much higher mean levels. Which is also what HbA1c would tests, the average blood glucose levels during the last 3 months.
ofonorow wrote:Back to the original post, you say "you have been on the Pauling therapy" and yet your total cholesterol is 230 !?! Something does not compute.
If your vitamin C were more optimal, your total cholesterol would be closer to 180 mg/dl.
So how much vitamin C are you taking daily?
ChuckArbogast wrote:pamojja wrote:It seems to me, if what you are saying only eliminate and/or lower the sources of food that causes the levels to rise, then I would need to test every food item individually to see exactly what is doing what so I know for sure what it was and not a combination of things.
pamojja wrote:You understand it well. That's the reason I recommended a meter with cheap test-strips. You will need a lot of those strips. Since to test each individual food isn't practical, nor how we normally eat (should at least contain a bid of carbs, fats and protein). But usually each meal isn't totally different, and contains only few items changed at a time. And that is how you'll catch them with regular testin. Beside carbs, also portion size is a pertaining factor.
For raising bowel-tolerance it helps if you mix your ascorbic acid powder with not more half its weight of sodium bicarbonate.
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