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THE COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE DISEASE Type-2 diabetes affects around 24 million Americans, maybe more if you count the number of people who have it but don't know it yet. And about 86 million more have prediabetes: high blood glucose levels but not high enough yet to get the full diagnoses. Most...

Eggs are a constant source of research and differing opinion, since they are such a staple food for millions of us, but much of the information that is written about eggs is focussed on “regular” people and only looks at topics such as cholesterol as relates to heart disease, or simply how many...

Up until a few years ago, vitamin B3 or niacin was one of two supplements (the other being fish oil) widely recommended for heart health. Fat hearts, skinny hearts, hearts that climb on rocks... Grinch hearts, clogged hearts, even hearts with a COX-2 inhibitor-induced increase in cardiovascular...

Anyone on here have any good tips on dropping down elevated LDL without medication? I know getting off gear, dropping red meats and fats helps. As well as adding fiber. Any other recommendations?

Sometimes it can be confusing determining which nutrition experts you can trust. When it comes to eggs, one study finds them good for you, and then next one calls them dangerous. So which ones are right. Although this back-and-forth, widely-debated topic can be confusing, determining whether an...

Should We Eat It Every Day? Eggs Are Tired, Boss Hey, do you remember John Coffey from “The Green Mile”? (“I’m tired, boss…”) It’s a stretch, but I see a similarity between Coffey and chicken eggs. No, really. To begin with, both were wrongly accused of horrible crimes. In the case of Coffey...

High Cholesterol Might Make You Live Longer Cholesterol Science: Something is Off I want to tell you a story that offers up a little perspective on the topic of cholesterol. It involves my mother. She was wasting away from a catastrophic trio of lung cancer, chemo, and radiation, and I tried...

Letrozole is an anti-estrogen of the Aromatase Inhibitor (AI) family and is one of the most potent and powerfully effective of all AI’s. In fact, its potency is sometimes too much for some to handle when used for off label use. Letrozole first gained U.S. FDA approval in 1997. Although Femara is...

by Arielle Weg Many of us grew up thinking cholesterol = bad. Eat a lot of cholesterol, end up with high cholesterol, right? Well, that might not be the case. The United States Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines once capped daily cholesterol consumption at 300 milligrams, but dropped...

There is a multitude of good information on AAS. I won't and can't cover it all here. Here's a real short version: Not the DEA, AMA, NJEM, ACS, AHA, US Army...not one organization...recommended that AAS be controlled. In fact, they all recommended that the remain over the counter, or "legend"...

The word “cholesterol” is often interpreted as a major health concern regarding cardiovascular health. When most people think of cholesterol they think of “Good Cholesterol” & “Bad Cholesterol.” The “Good Cholesterol” is associated with High Density Lipo-Proteins (HDL) & “Bad Cholesterol” is...

BergaMonte® (Bergamot Polyphenolic Fraction®) is a widely researched, patented extract derived from Citrus bergamia, a citrus fruit that is postulated to be a hybrid of lemon and bitter orange. Citrus bergamia trees blossom during the winter, and the fruit has a taste that is mildly sour but...

Live for lipids By Daniel Rocha Lipids include triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols such as cholesterol. Lipids dissolve in solvents like alcohol and acetone, but they are not soluble in water. The body uses fats and other lipids to provide and store energy, form and maintain cell...

Morning brothers and Happy Thanksgiving! Been a little MIA lately, just a lot going on, extra stress with work, family, etc. I had bloodwork done on 11/1 and overall everything is pretty good. A few things came out either a little out of range or just lower/higher end compared to recent labs...

Although eggs were exonerated in recent years from their reputation as a hindrance to cholesterol, it’s difficult for individuals who are told one thing for decades to suddenly believe the opposite. That was the case with nutrition myths surrounding carbs, full-fat dairy or soy, for example...

Triglycerides and cholesterol levels are often measured and reported together in a lipid profile when you visit your doctor. But they’re actually quite different. Triglycerides are a form of fat — the most common one found in the body. Excess calories from the diet are packaged as triglycerides...

Often, I hear clients say, “I like eggs, but my cholesterol is high” or “I usually eat egg whites in the morning, aren’t the yolks ‘bad’?” But if you take a look at the latest science, you’ll see eggs can certainly be part of a healthy, well-balanced diet. Although eggs were exonerated in...

I did blood work and Dr. saids that cholesterol is higher than she would like it to be. Before I go on Statins, which is what she wants me to do, what natural supplements are good for lowering cholesterol?? Fiber ???

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From the research I was doing seems like it’s pretty bad for your cholesterol what are you guys think and have Scene from bloodwork