Holding off statins challenge 🙄 - Cholesterol Support

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Holding off statins challenge 🙄

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Hi...happy new year🥰

My annual check showed my nhs cholesterol level at 13 whatever that means but should be under 10 so I said I will seriously try to lower this myself as statins buggered my leg muscles up. Given me 6 months and if not lower suggest I try a different one, which I really don’t want to do 🙁 So a good breakfast for a healthy start to try to lower it with lifestyle changes and improvements. Off shopping for grapefruit, avocado and no processed baddies 😇

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sandybrown

Hello,

What is the unit of measurement for your cholesterol?

UK, NHS cholesterol numbers are very different!

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weee

Good luck - keep us posted..:)

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Marz

Weight gain and raised cholesterol can be linked to low thyroid function. Hopefully you have been correctly tested ... often NHS testing is woefully inadequate.

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You're on the right track.

I encourage you to read my pinned post to the right side of this page:

"How I Conquered Heart Disease and What I Learned in the Process".

I encourage you to watch these videos:

youtu.be/K3ksKkCOgTw - The Secrets of Sugar

youtu.be/f3iOlRUQkrw - Gut Health Part 1

youtu.be/klnYh7SZRic - Gut Health Part 2

Good luck.

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