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High Cholesterol - Live Longer

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People with high cholesterol generally live longer. If you must worry about your cholesterol jeep your Trig's low and your HDL high and forget the rest.

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sandybrown

Thank you, very interesting article.

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DakCB-UK

Any suggestions how to raise HDL?

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sleeksheep in reply to DakCB-UK

bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g43...

There is an association between low HDL and cardiovascular disease because they have a common cause, not because one causes the other. That cause is a diet high in sugar and carbohydrate

Lowering carbohydrate intake very effectively raises HDL and lowers triglyceride.The reason more people do not do this is the erroneous fear of cholesterol. A low carbohydrate diet can increase the total cholesterol level.

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DakCB-UK in reply to sleeksheep

That seems to ignore people like me who have low HDL even on low carb diets, probably for genetic reasons same as the high HDL.

I wish people would just say they don't know rather than posting irrelevancies or implied accusations that I eat a load of sugars.

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DakCB-UK

Personally, I'm about two-thirds of the way up the Trig ref range and just off the bottom of the HDL ref range and those have almost never moved, through diet, exercise or medication changes. The few times they have moved, it's been by less than 0.1mmol/l and then returned to previous so I suspect it was measurement entropy.

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DakCB-UK

Once again, any failure of low carb is claimed to be due to those who try it not believing sufficiently and practising it earnestly enough.

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