Bad cholesterol: It’s not what you think

Deadly Sushi

Deadly Sushi

Formerly The Giant Mojito
It appears that LDL isnt all bad!!! :huh:


Two laboratory machines have played a role in perhaps the greatest medical misadventure of our time: the indictment of a villain — LDL cholesterol — with the ultimate crime of the heart, coronary artery disease.
One machine delivered the early, misleading evidence of cholesterol's guilt, and another may have just nabbed the actual killer. And because the killer's likeliest and earliest targets are men, we'd all better pay attention to the new case being made against it.
The first machine, an early prototype of a device called an analytical ultracentrifuge, was crucial to the 1949 discovery of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL). These common blood fats would become cemented in people's minds by their angel/devil personas, "good" and "bad" cholesterol. But now the halo-and-pitchfork images seem a little simplistic. And hardly useful.

CONTINUED: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35058896/ns/health-heart_health/
 
I will look them up, but it turns out that while I had fairly low LDL and I don't have a huge number of the small LDL particles, I had essentially no HDL. So the ratio was awful. I also have the ApoE 3/4 which predisposes me to heart disease, which I already knew because everyone in my family has that. So the plan was/is to increase my HDL, which is really my only option, through diet, exercise and meds (which I have since stopped taking because they made me feel like crap!)
 
Fisher's Mom said:
I will look them up, but it turns out that while I had fairly low LDL and I don't have a huge number of the small LDL particles, I had essentially no HDL. So the ratio was awful. I also have the ApoE 3/4 which predisposes me to heart disease, which I already knew because everyone in my family has that. So the plan was/is to increase my HDL, which is really my only option, through diet, exercise and meds (which I have since stopped taking because they made me feel like crap!)
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I would start poppin' fish oil pills!!! :thumb:

Yes! Im a faux doctor :tiphat:
 
Or a table spoon of code liver oil, something my grandmother forced on me till I got married and left home. She tried to push that nasty stuff on me when she came to live with us again. It must of had some effect though since I'm still on this side of the grass considering my life style. I never had much faith in dietitians in general, kind of pseudo science to me.
 
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