Dr said cholesterol is a smidge too high... HELP !!!

Increase your exercise. Reduce the amount of animal products in your diet. You don't have to cut it out but reduce it some.

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Take fish oil daily. I take 1400 mg but you could do 1000 mg. Eat Wild salmon once a week. Substitute most fat content to olive, avocado and the like, limit processed foods, up your veggie and fruit intake. In other words do what every MD recommends and it will come down some.

cholesterol is caused by saturated fat, it passes the liver and gets converted to cholesterol, simply avoid saturated fats and look for cis trans fats, an easier way to look it is,,,, if the fat you are eating is solid at room temperature dont eat it, before i started getting fit i was at 6.1 count, im now a stable 2.4 following the fat rule,

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cholesterol is caused by saturated fat, it passes the liver and gets converted to cholesterol, simply avoid saturated fats and look for cis trans fats, an easier way to look it is,,,, if the fat you are eating is solid at room temperature dont eat it, before i started getting fit i was at 6.1 count, im now a stable 2.4 following the fat rule,

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No fats including saturated fat get converted to cholesterol. Fats and cholesterol are 2 totally different things, for starters.

cholesterol is caused by saturated fat, it passes the liver and gets converted to cholesterol, simply avoid saturated fats and look for cis trans fats, an easier way to look it is,,,, if the fat you are eating is solid at room temperature dont eat it, before i started getting fit i was at 6.1 count, im now a stable 2.4 following the fat rule,

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No fats including saturated fat get converted to cholesterol. Fats and cholesterol are 2 totally different things, for starters.

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look up lipids,,,, lipids are fats,,, lipids with phosphorus have long fatty acid tails such as cholesterol, did you also know fats are very similar to carbohydrates as they are a carbon structure with hydrogen bonds and oxygen bonds.hence why we have an affinity for fats as well as carbs ..... i dont really want to go into lots of detail on organic chemistry,, it is boring,,,,, as you know so much,,,, google optical isomerism and laeurotatory enzymes, if you cant find the enzyme responsible i will name it for you later
also glucose is completely different to citric acid (citrate), but yet this conversion happens and with out it you would not exist

2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS as you said, inside the amazing thing we call the human body means nothing as we are so complex we do stuff which seems almost magical
there are working that go on to prevent this to, so a small % will be changed and % will be used another % will be stored and the rest will be passed through

Plain steel cut oatmeal every morning, loads of raw olive oil ( not olive oil cooked on things), and take psyllium husks fiber supplements, Keep up the exercise, and try and eat lean meats. My cholesterol in now lower than it's ever been in my life! Dr told me keep doing what I've been doing! Hope yours gets great soon!

flushing niacin with vitamin c will lower cholesterol fast.

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n10.shtml

"One should expect to begin by taking 1000 mg of vitamin C and 50 mg of niacin three times a day, preferably after each meal. Niacin tablets are scored and a 100 mg tablet is easily broken along the score to produce two 50 mg half-tablets of niacin.

After three or four days, the niacin dosage is increased to 100 mg three times a day. One might continue increasing the niacin by 50 mg or 100 mg every three or four days until the dosage of 1000 mg of niacin and 1000 mg of vitamin C are taken three times a day. "

cholesterol is caused by saturated fat, it passes the liver and gets converted to cholesterol, simply avoid saturated fats and look for cis trans fats, an easier way to look it is,,,, if the fat you are eating is solid at room temperature dont eat it, before i started getting fit i was at 6.1 count, im now a stable 2.4 following the fat rule,

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Agree to some extent. Your body makes most of the cholesterol. Also too low cholesterol not good.
http://metabolichealing.com/key-integrated-functions-of-your-body/cardiovascular/cholesterol-among-the-most-vital-lipids-the-body-produces/

^^^ LOl what? Saturated fat does turn to be the cholesterol in blood. How do you not know this? Anyways if OP made her diary public i can help point out things that should be avoided.

Mine had always been 198-210 during my 40's. With all the walking I have been doing since I started MFP, it was down in the 150's when I had it tested in March, and I never saw those kind of numbers back during the time when I was on Lipitor.

So, I'm going to say that while eating and losing weight is important, for me personally, exercising on a regular basis (which I've never done in my life) is what made the difference.

Everyone is different, and if high cholesterol runs in the family, its harder to combat it, but you can control some of it on your own with diet, exercise and keeping weight off. Those things will help many other ailments, not just cholesterol.

Nicely said.

Don't let all the arguments above distract you. Do your best to eat well (common sense should guide you there) and increase your exercise as much as possible.

If you can increase the level of "good" cholesterol by exercising it will very much help improve the ratio in your lipid profile.

If it is just a smidge too high you stand a good chance of being able to change the numbers without medication.

I have had two doctors, say, though, that genetics definitely affect the total number. I have a number that would not necessarily be considered ideal, but I have managed to get my "good" cholesterol to a point where the ratio of good to bad cholesterol is great.

Just keep on trying to lose weight, clean up your diet and keep increasing your exercise. All these things should help.

many may not know this, but we have two sources of cholesterol - 1) from our food and 2) we make our own cholesterol further complicating is how we process our food- this is why some individuals (like my physician) can eat super healthy, run like madmen and still have high cholesterol whereas others can eat crap, exercise little and have an awesome cholesterol profile (historically me)

still even if genetics is not in your favour you can do a lot to help yourself, though some research is fickle on this overall most research seems to indicate:
eat food high in fiber (oats, beans, complex carbs)
limit your intake of animal fats, palm oil
eat foods rich in (poly and mono) unsaturated fats such as oily fish (salmon, mackerel)

I personally would be cautious about taking any pills (even vitamins or supplements) without my health care providers supervision- Niacin is a known treatment for high cholesterol but as with anything it has its possible side effects including::
Flushing
Upset stomach
Headache
Dizziness
Liver damage
Increased blood sugar

see this helpful Mayo Clinic article for more information:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/niacin/CL00036

and this Mayo Clinic article on things you can do to help improve your cholesterol profile:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/reduce-cholesterol/CL00012

good luck!

It is true 'to an extent' that saturated fat intake 'can control' cholesterol production in the liver 'maybe', but if you cut out saturated fat completely, you will be worse off than you are now. My mom had her gall bladder removed. She can't even digest saturated fat. Now you would think she would have low cholesterol, but you would be wrong. Her cholesterol went through the roof. Why? Because your body NEEDS cholesterol and saturated fat. If it doesn't get saturated fat, all that other 'healthy' food you eat gets synthesized into fat and sent to your liver to produce more cholesterol.
Get a healthy balance. Not too high, not too low. Everything in moderation, including moderation.

FIBER!