…of any kind has been shown to inhibit the production of nitric oxide. Animal products also add cholesterol to our bodies, cholesterol that is not needed and causes harm. Our…
Going to the doctor for your fasting lipid panel results can be an exercise in confusion. You will get numbers for your total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol (“unhealthy” cholesterol), HDL cholesterol…
…and lifestyle changes. I lost a total of 55 pounds. My BMI dropped from 30 to 23. My total cholesterol dropped 90 points without statins. I reached my ideal weight…
…My allergies are gone. My cholesterol is down from almost 300 to hovering at about 200. If I remember the whole when I make my choices in food, movement or…
…focusing their attention on single dietary (i.e., saturated fat and cholesterol) and clinical factors (i.e., serum total, HDL and LDL cholesterol) as causes of heart disease. This is reductionist experimentation…
…and my cholesterol of 260 dropped to 160. (I also started running and I attribute some of the drop in my cholesterol to that). When my doctor asked me how…
…heart. Their options: open-heart surgery, a lifetime of cholesterol-lowering drugs, or death. The scientific consensus held that diet could, at best, decrease blood cholesterol by only about 10-20%, an effect…
…with high cholesterol and an increase in atherosclerotic plaques that reduce blood supply to the brain. Both PET scans and electron microscopic analysis have shown that high cholesterol also promotes…
…as a group, increase serum cholesterol while plant-based proteins, as a group, decrease serum cholesterol.15 Also, when animal-based proteins and plant-based proteins are switched, serum cholesterol levels switch accordingly,16, 17…
