Cholesterol

Tangerine302

Mine is 10 mg as well. Breaking a 20 Lipitor in half.

rileysowner

Thanks for the info. My doc put me on 20mg Atorvastatin (Lipitor) which I thought was way to high based on the fact that my cholesterol was borderline and my diet was horrible. Regular trips to the all you can eat buffet stuffing myself, lots of sugary sweets and drinks, few if any veggies and the like with a completely sedentary lifestyle. If I can I want to switch to crestor (I miss grapefruits) or discontinue and see what happens to the cholesterol now that my lifestyle is quite different and see what happens.

jknops2

I am on Crestor, 10mg, since 2004, which decreased my LDL from 170 to 90. But it had no impact on HDL (which was ok) or triglycerides (which was high).

Lost 35 lb in the last 8 months, which increased my HLD from 50 to 62, and decreased triglycerides from 247 to 95.
So yes use statins and weight loss also helps a lot.

I decreased my Crestor to 5 mg in May and will do a profile later this month.

So, in my experience, Crestor definitely gets your LDL down a lot. Weight loss and eating more fish, less meat gets your HDL up and triglycerides down.

So use statins and bring your weight down, the combination works well.

jknops2

But for any of you out there who thing cholesterol is a myth, Eating more cholesterol is good for you, eating more saturated fat is good for you, and carbohydrates are evil.

Drink Windex, it is the magical cure for everything. Or was it catpea?

dleithaus

But for any of you out there who thing cholesterol is a myth, Eating more cholesterol is good for you, eating more saturated fat is good for you, and carbohydrates are evil.

Drink Windex, it is the magical cure for everything. Or was it catpea?

Original Windex or the yellow Multi-surface stuff? I think the original formula is more natural and organic.

tigersword

300 mg is the fda recommended daily allowance but i have read recently that the amount you eat is not that important so long as you don't go crazy with it.

The FDA is lying to people so they can put people on Statins to further deteriorate your heatlh.

You realize this statement completely discredits anything else you may post in this thread, right? It just makes you look like a total conspiracy theorist nut. Why would the FDA want to deteriorate everyone's health, exactly?

catwrangler

You guys are all misinformed.

Windex is the answer.

Drink a lot of Windex each day and you will have no problem with high cholesterol.

You must be Greek! :laugh:

All I know is my cholesterol got better all around when I stopped eating fried foods.

kadrum

I'm still learning how to respond to someone's response. sorry. my reply is on another post. duh

kadrum

Yes. Fried foods are cause for most of our problems!

kadrum

what do you think about the cholesterol setting?

Irrelevent

I agree. The more cholesterol you eat, the less your body has to make; therefore your serum cholesterol will reduce. It sounds counter intuitive, but it is the truth.

Please read The Cholesterol Myth.........

http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

Thanks a lot for responding. You really got people discussing this topic, and there is great info here. My doctor said if I lost even 10 pounds it should come down. You know what's interesting about your article? I have rarely eaten red meat during my entire lifetime. I never liked it. I eat chicken and eggs a few times a week, but that isn't even consistent. I started this intentionally ten years ago when a doctor told me to add protein to my diet (borderline anemia, etc.). So, I'm almost a vegetarian, yet have higher cholesterol level than most. Your article seems to support this idea.

rileysowner

You guys are all misinformed.

Windex is the answer.

Drink a lot of Windex each day and you will have no problem with high cholesterol.

You must be Greek! :laugh:

All I know is my cholesterol got better all around when I stopped eating fried foods.

Most of the fried foods people eat a filled with trans fats, so no surprise that helped.

glenbabe

what do you think about the cholesterol setting?

Irrelevent

OMG that is so not true cholesterol in your blood is such a bad thing for your heart.You need to make sure you always watch blood cholesterol and eat the right foods to keep this at bay,

bcattoes

Although eating foods high in dietary cholesterol will show a temp raise in blood serum cholesterol (the reason you must fast before getting it checked) eating dietary cholesterol like eggs will cause your body to produce less to compensate. I eat 6 whole eggs and 6 whites almost every day. Blood work is perfect. Bottom line.... eat eggs!

Ugh! Eggs are not required for good blood serum cholesterol, neither is eating cholesterol. If your liver is functioning properly it will make all you need.

glenbabe

Agree that it's basically irrelevant because dietary cholesterol does not impact your cholesterol level. It's saturated fats(LDL) and sugars (triglycerides) that you need to control. Eggs are good for you! Eat less fatty red meat and remove simple carbs from your diet. Simple carbs are anything over-processed (if it comes prepackaged with sugar as an ingredient then it's over processed) white bread, white rice and white potatoes.

This is more on the right lines

bcattoes

If you have high LDL values, research is promising that you can lower it as much by combining foods as with statins.

http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/features/portfolio-diet-recipe-for-lower-cholesterol

True, the experts said, certain changes to the diet can lower cholesterol. Taken alone, however, none of them solves the problem. The big breakthrough came when Jenkins and colleagues showed that all these things add up. They also showed they could be incorporated into the palatable, tasty portfolio diet.

"People don't normally put these things together," Jenkins tells WebMD. "People talk about soy, and oat bran, and plant sterols, and nuts, but nobody has put them all together."
...
But Milani is quick to note that the foods in the portfolio diet can be added to almost any healthy diet.

"What Jenkins and colleagues are saying is you can take these components and put them in any diet," Milani says. "It can be done -- inexpensively -- to get people's cholesterol under control."

tigersword

what do you think about the cholesterol setting?

Irrelevent

OMG that is so not true cholesterol in your blood is such a bad thing for your heart.You need to make sure you always watch blood cholesterol and eat the right foods to keep this at bay,

Dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol are two totally different things. The amount of cholesterol in your blood is mostly genetic, as your body produces all the cholesterol it really needs. If you eat more, the body makes less to compensate, if the you eat less, the body just makes more. So yes, the amount of cholesterol you eat is basically irrelevant.

Tangerine302

So with that said, what happens when you eat more dietary cholesterol than what your body needs? Where does the extra go?

dleithaus

So with that said, what happens when you eat more dietary cholesterol than what your body needs? Where does the extra go?

Cholesterol is recycled. It is excreted by the liver via the bile into the digestive tract. Typically about 50% of the excreted cholesterol is reabsorbed by the small bowel back into the bloodstream. Phytosterols can compete with cholesterol reabsorption in the intestinal tract, thus reducing cholesterol reabsorption.[6]

^ John S, Sorokin AV, Thompson PD (February 2007). "Phytosterols and vascular disease". Curr. Opin. Lipidol. 18 (1): 35–40. doi:10.1097/MOL.0b013e328011e9e3. PMID 17218830.

hpsnickers1

So have they done any studies on statins for women yet? From what I understand all the studies were done on men only. Yet they are still pushed on women.