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Cholesterol Support

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My recent lipid check up results

Following my recent regular 6 month check up, there were my figures. Total Cholesterol 3.4 mmol Trig 1 mmol HDL 0.9 mmol Fasting Glucose 6.6 mmol Creatinine...

Following my recent regular 6 month check up, there were my figures. Total Chol...

•8 years ago

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Loss of muscles please help

My dad is around 50. His muscles started to hurt for couple weeks then fully disappeared. His muscles are gone. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with him....

My dad is around 50. His muscles started to hurt for couple weeks then fully dis...

shkiberanikolay

•8 years ago

cholesterol measurements

Can someone explain the way cholesterol measurements are recorded now. Until 2 years or so ago you had : Total; HDL; ratio; LDL and triglycerides. Now you...

Can someone explain the way cholesterol measurements are recorded now. Until 2 y...

Gardengnome1942

•8 years ago

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It's the Insulin Stupid!

There has been something of a hiatus recently in the ‘saturated fat is bad, unrefined carbohydrate good controversy’. Firstly, along came Denise Minger's...

There has been something of a hiatus recently in the ‘saturated fat is bad, unre...

•8 years ago

statin study

hello everyone, is there anyone out there involved in a study conducted by SYNEXUS. clinical research centre for statins? it is a new drug called bococizumab...

hello everyone, is there anyone out there involved in a study conducted by SYNEX...

•8 years ago

A good tried and tested diet to help lose weight

Hi is there anyone out there who has used a good diet which has helped them shed a lot of weight. I really need to lose weight and it's become essential since...

Hi is there anyone out there who has used a good diet which has helped them shed...

•8 years ago

My genetic test is finally confirmed.

But yet again, I only got the hospital to actually even communicate with me by threatening to complain to the Parliamentary ombudsman. I have made numerous,...

But yet again, I only got the hospital to actually even communicate with me by t...

•9 years ago

Rising cholesterol

I haven't written on this site for over a year so hello again! I just wondered whether I am likely to be offered a statin at my next drs visit in about 6...

I haven't written on this site for over a year so hello again! I just wondered...

Gardengnome1942

•9 years ago

Ezetimibe?

Anybody have any thoughts on this alternative to a statin? So far, after doing a little research, it seems even worse than the statin? Narrows the arteries,...

Anybody have any thoughts on this alternative to a statin? So far, after doing a...

•9 years ago

Is Fat bad for you?

I am confused about all the conflicting advise concerning diets. Is the Atkins diet/Paleo Diet Bad for you? They advise full fat, low carbs. I have...

I am confused about all the conflicting advise concerning diets. Is the Atkin...

•9 years ago

Caldwell B Esselstyn's book

Read about this book on the Forum and bought it on Amazon. Have decided to follow his diet. Is there a Forum member on this way of eating. He claims that he...

Read about this book on the Forum and bought it on Amazon. Have decided to follo...

•9 years ago

Coronary artery calcium scan

An interesting piece here on coronary artery scans, which are a much more accurate way of predicting heart disease risk....

An interesting piece here on coronary artery scans, which are a much more accura...

•9 years ago

Is it Ramipril?

Hi everyone,it is my first post on this platform which I find more fulfilling,informative and satisfying than my local imcompetent gp's and arragont...

Hi everyone,it is my first post on this platform which I find more fulfilling,in...

•9 years ago

BLOCK IN CAD OF CORONARY ARTERY

ON ANGIOGRAM I WAS DIAGNOSED HAVING 80% BLOCK IN CAD CORONARY ARTERHY about a month back.BUT I AM VERY NORMAL AND NOT NOTICING ANY PAIN OR BREATHING PROBLEM .I...

ON ANGIOGRAM I WAS DIAGNOSED HAVING 80% BLOCK IN CAD CORONARY ARTERHY about a mo...

•9 years ago

What REALLY happens to your body when you eat different types of sugar? Expert reveals how fructose from fizzy drinks is stored as FAT

Please read this article in the copy of mail on Sunday, an excellent explanation! When the fructose reaches the liver there is an enzyme there which is...

Please read this article in the copy of mail on Sunday, an excellent explanation...

•9 years ago

Today's mirror

Hi everyone Interesting article in Mirror today. Dr Stoppards page, title....Have we been wrong about cholesterol? Cholesterol no longer nutrient of concern....

Hi everyone Interesting article in Mirror today. Dr Stoppards page, title....Hav...

•9 years ago

Mr

Hi everyone, I have suffered from high cholesterol for some time, i am always looking for new cholesterol reducing foods as i refuse to take statins any...

Hi everyone, I have suffered from high cholesterol for some time, i am always l...

Stevenvalentine

•9 years ago