How to Lower LDL and up HDL???

[BigMatt]

How to Lower LDL and up HDL???

Any supplement to take?

Any food Guideline?

My HDL are within range but i could still up them a little.

My LDL are a little big Too high.

Im not overweight at all and not fat(can see 6 pack)

 

[cmansr]

I was PMing back and forth with a guy on another site who was using a Red Yeast Rice supplement and was getting bloodwork done at a university on a regular basis. The red yeast rice was lowering his LDL and raising his HDL.

Pretty amazing if you ask me.

 

[BigMatt]

I was PMing back and forth with a guy on another site who was using a Red Yeast Rice supplement and was getting bloodwork done at a university on a regular basis. The red yeast rice was lowering his LDL and raising his HDL.

Pretty amazing if you ask me.

Wow i need that thing!

Thanks cman

 

[Fancy Joe]

I was PMing back and forth with a guy on another site who was using a Red Yeast Rice supplement and was getting bloodwork done at a university on a regular basis. The red yeast rice was lowering his LDL and raising his HDL.

Pretty amazing if you ask me.

this is the active ingredient in Crestor, Lipitor, etc. It makes sense that it would work. Eat Oatmeal and increase your garlic intake as well.

 

[Quad-smack]

Red Yeast Rice
Nicotinic Acid - Niacin, not the no-flush type.
Soluble Fiber
Vitamin D3

 

[PsyT]

i heard fish oil helps

 

[rtn]

My local health food store recommended olive oil and red wine to increase HDL. I went from 36 to 41 doing this. Have since stopped the red wine. This worked better than niacin for me. As said previously, red yeast rice is a natural statin. Prescription Lovastatin is $4 at most pharmacies.

 

[QStorm]

Garlic will help lower your LDL's and fish oil will increase your HDL's.

 

[Joeykk]

Fish oil and rest yeast rice should help raise HDL

 

[Jmuls]

Just so you all know, Red Yeast Rice contains a naturally occurring statin. This is how it's able to exert forth it's effect on your lipid profile. Though you must be aware, statins decrease Ubiquinone levels (CoQ10). Upiquinone is a component of the process that creates ATP for the body. So any organ that relies on this process for the energy that is created by way of Upiquinone suffers, such as the heart and other organs (patients receiving statin therapy can go into heart failure as a result of what the statins do). So supplementation with exogenous CoQ10 is a must if you're going to be using any form of a statin, whether it be natural occurring or derived synthetically.


A couple other suggestions I have to correct your lipid profile include:

- Cut wheat from your diet completely (wheat consumption increases triglycerides, which in turn increase your LDLs). Cut any sugar out completely. Cut out any processed carbohydrates.

- At least 3600mg of omega-3 daily (6 - 1000mg fish oil caps)

- Vitamin D3: Start out at 4000iu daily, then in 3 months get your 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels checked. Continue increasing the dose and getting the serum levels checked until you're levels are between 60-80ng/ml. Then simply maintain that dose, making sure to get your levels checked every 6 months to ensure your still in that range.

- 10g of soluble fiber daily. This includes psyllium husk, oatmeal, oat bran, barely, etc. (No, oats and barely have nothing to do with wheat. The only thing they have to do with one another is that they're a grain.)

- Continue doing cardio, as I'm sure you already are doing so.

 

[ohmygoodness]

Just so you all know, Red Yeast Rice contains a naturally occurring statin. This is how it's able to exert forth it's effect on your lipid profile. Though you must be aware, statins decrease Ubiquinone levels (CoQ10). Upiquinone is a component of the process that creates ATP for the body. So any organ that relies on this process for the energy that is created by way of Upiquinone suffers, such as the heart and other organs (patients receiving statin therapy can go into heart failure as a result of what the statins do). So supplementation with exogenous CoQ10 is a must if you're going to be using any form of a statin, whether it be natural occurring or derived synthetically.


A couple other suggestions I have to correct your lipid profile include:

- Cut wheat from your diet completely (wheat consumption increases triglycerides, which in turn increase your LDLs). Cut any sugar out completely. Cut out any processed carbohydrates.

- At least 3600mg of omega-3 daily (6 - 1000mg fish oil caps)

- Vitamin D3: Start out at 4000iu daily, then in 3 months get your 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels checked. Continue increasing the dose and getting the serum levels checked until you're levels are between 60-80ng/ml. Then simply maintain that dose, making sure to get your levels checked every 6 months to ensure your still in that range.

- 10g of soluble fiber daily. This includes psyllium husk, oatmeal, oat bran, barely, etc. (No, oats and barely have nothing to do with wheat. The only thing they have to do with one another is that they're a grain.)

- Continue doing cardio, as I'm sure you already are doing so.

^^^ great advice.


Simple recipe

1 lemon
5 gloves of garlic
Enough olive oil to blend into a puree.
I use it over pasta or if too hot I use it as a dip. Most of the time the lemon & olive oil make it enjoyable and easy to take

 

[BigMatt]

Just so you all know, Red Yeast Rice contains a naturally occurring statin. This is how it's able to exert forth it's effect on your lipid profile. Though you must be aware, statins decrease Ubiquinone levels (CoQ10). Upiquinone is a component of the process that creates ATP for the body. So any organ that relies on this process for the energy that is created by way of Upiquinone suffers, such as the heart and other organs (patients receiving statin therapy can go into heart failure as a result of what the statins do). So supplementation with exogenous CoQ10 is a must if you're going to be using any form of a statin, whether it be natural occurring or derived synthetically.


A couple other suggestions I have to correct your lipid profile include:

- Cut wheat from your diet completely (wheat consumption increases triglycerides, which in turn increase your LDLs). Cut any sugar out completely. Cut out any processed carbohydrates.

- At least 3600mg of omega-3 daily (6 - 1000mg fish oil caps)

- Vitamin D3: Start out at 4000iu daily, then in 3 months get your 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels checked. Continue increasing the dose and getting the serum levels checked until you're levels are between 60-80ng/ml. Then simply maintain that dose, making sure to get your levels checked every 6 months to ensure your still in that range.

- 10g of soluble fiber daily. This includes psyllium husk, oatmeal, oat bran, barely, etc. (No, oats and barely have nothing to do with wheat. The only thing they have to do with one another is that they're a grain.)

- Continue doing cardio, as I'm sure you already are doing so.

Thank you

Can i replace the Fiber source with Brocoli???

Basically im eating Fruits, Vegetables, Meat(Beef,chicken) and Whole eggs.

No dairy and no Wheat, no corn , no grains

 

[bhunter99d]

I have heard the use of Albuterol has positive effects on your levels.
I dont know this for sure but I am going to try and run some
to see if this is the case.

 

[Jmuls]

Thank you

Can i replace the Fiber source with Brocoli???

Basically im eating Fruits, Vegetables, Meat(Beef,chicken) and Whole eggs.

No dairy and no Wheat, no corn , no grains

Yea, broccoli is good. Grean beans, asparagus, spinach, etc are also good as well. A fiber supplement like sugar-free Metamucil could be added to protein shakes as an easy way to get the fiber in, while also helping to make you feel full and slow absorption.

 

[ranger13]

I take fish oil everyday. Last blood test my good chol was low and my bad chol was fine. At that point I was taking 4 capsules of fish per day; after my blood test my doctor told me to double it, but I just take 6 instead of 8.