…was linked with increased heart disease risk and LDL (or bad) cholesterol, reduced HDL (good) cholesterol, and larger waistlines.[1] This is one reason I transitioned to a height-adjustable desk several…
…egg yolks and shellfish “dramatically” reducing cholesterol shows that some types of shellfish led to lower cholesterol levels compared to consuming other animal proteins. There’s nothing about egg yolks in…
…known to decrease NO production from dietary nitrate include smoking, aging, high cholesterol, inflammation, and low oxygen conditions (e.g. high altitude, some lung diseases). The effects of dietary nitrate seem…
…addition. Over the years, my health began to decline—high cholesterol, high blood pressure, swollen and painful joints, and hormonal issues. I was only in my forties, and my lack of…
…the largest fitness organizations in the world. Our focus in the industry changed dramatically after we both transitioned to a whole food, plant-based diet eight years ago. My cholesterol was…
…a husband or father within the year. My blood pressure was 255/115, and I was on three medications to bring it down. My cholesterol (300) and triglycerides (279) were off…
…practice. I was amazed at many of the medical transformations that I witnessed, as patients adopted a plant-based lifestyle. Interesting vignettes of weight loss, cholesterol normalization, improvement of diabetic hemoglobin…
…this trip, my doctor suggested that I go on statins because of my elevated cholesterol, never mentioning I might just change my diet instead. Dr. Campbell’s book convinced me to…
…numbers of beneficial Bifidobacterium, and this correlated with reduced fasting glucose and total cholesterol[8]—in other words, a reversal of metabolic syndrome. A high-fat diet increases intestinal permeability—that is, it causes…
