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What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 4.

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Total blood cholesterol of 268 is high risk, 109 triglycerides is of no real concern, 57 hdl cholesterol is reasonable, but the ldl cholesterol of 191 was very high.

Essentially you have high blood cholesterol because of elevated ldl bad cholesterol. If you look at our cholesterol picture you can see the white cholesterol fat your heart and arteries are trying to pump round your body. Scary, isn't it? Imagine how soon your car would break down if it had to pump that stuff round the through the car radiator system. Now, in a way the high ldl cholesterol is a simple problem you have, which is NOT compounded with tryglceride problems or too little hdl cholesterol, so all you have to work out is how to lower that ldl level.

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This whole web site is very much about lowering ldl cholesterol. To start, I would suggest reading the essential cholesterol information to understand the problem, definition, standard intervention and so on. Next I would read the cholesterol information on lowering cholesterol naturally to work out which foods, herbs and spices you would like to increase in your diet to help lower that ldl cholesterol. From there I would go to the Cholesterol sample diet and see how I succeeded and make this the base to work from. Next I would go to to the Cholesterol menu / meal planner and choose from the meals / foods there, adding of course those foods, herbs and spices to your meals that you selected earlier. For foods that aren't on the menu, I would then consult the Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Chart to see if the food is safe or not from a cholesterol perspective. Working out which and how much of a food is safe or dangerous from a cholesterol perspective may appear daunting, but from reading the pages so far and using our saturated fat calculator which provides guidelines for how much saturated fat and so on is safe for your level of weight, you can then work out whether the food you are looking at is suitable or not, or in what quantity it is safe or unsafe for you personally. Then I would read all the other pages. For example, including our Weight Loss and exercise information , if being over weight is one of the causes of the high ldl cholesterol.

What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 5.

What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 6.

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What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 7.

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What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 8.

                                  Mom's results            Normal Range

Glucose                           114 mg/dl                   60 - 110

Cholesterol                        283   "                     150- 250

Cholesterol-HDL                     71   "                     35  -120

Cholesterol-LDL                    184   "                     0  - 160

Triglyceride                      204   "                     20 - 190

Uric Acid                         5.8   "                    2.5 - 7.5

MCHC                             30.9   %                      32 - 36
 
HEMOGLOBIN A1C                    6.2   %                    4.3 - 6.1

THYROID

TSH           >60.00 ulU/mL                        0.25 -  5
T4 FREE        2.31 pmol/L                            9  - 20

Answers to cholesterol question 8:

The cholesterol readings are high risk or worse. If she is a complete vegetarian, then you may need to check her foods for saturated fat and cholesterol content. For example, coconut is bad news for a cholesterol sufferer because of high saturated fat. Also, check out our cholesterol chart and do check out the food labels on the food she is eating, to make sure nothing bad cholesterol or saturated fat wise is coming into her diet. For example, banana chips are often prepared in high saturated fat and are cholesterol dangerous as a result, even though bananas of themselves are essentially fine to eat.

The triglycerides are also high, but the hdl level appears high enough to protect your mother from them.

The BMI calculator clearly shows obesity, but your doctor is correct, in that, if the thyroid is dysfunctional obesity may be a symptom of it. If the weight problem remains after the thyroid is fixed up, then you may like to check out our weight loss pages, as indicated in 7 above.

If your doctor has determined that the results are the symptoms of a thyroid dysfunction, then correcting the thyroid dysfunction should be benefical and crucial.

Normally high cholesterol has to be around for a while before it becomes lethal or damaging. So if these are new results that haven't been found before, then the cholesterol issue may not be so bad - but it still needs to be monitored by a doctor to make sure the cholesterol goes down when the thyroid is corrected. Certainly the use of medication suggests the doctor is taking the symptom of cholesterol very seriously. Please remember to check with her doctor about any dietary changes you are going to make just in case it may make things worse - Not only is there the cholesterol to worry about, but the thyroid as well. Sometimes helping out one problem may aggravate another if we are not careful in what we do.

Kind regards,

Donald.

What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 9.

Hi, and thank you in advance.
I am a 64 year old female, 5 foot 3 and weighing too much ie. 72 kilos. Intend going on your diet ideas as all the rest have failed. Exercise moderately due to ill health but will also put more of your ideas into practice.
Diet is very healthy, wholegrains, veg plenty, and rice bran oil and coconut oil.(would like your feedback on the coconut oil issue as it relates to cholesterol). No alcohol or cigarettes. Early heart problems not in family Mum living into 90s and Dad into 80s.
Was a bit disappointed with results. Doctor just advised improving diet.
Cholesterol 6.0
Triglycerides 1.45
HDL 1.7
LDL 3.6
Total RATIO 3.5:1

Would love your comments. Kind regards to you.

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Obviously, your cholesterol is looking pretty good. The drawback is the slightly elevated ldl or bad cholesterol. If you visit our Cholesterol Chart , you will find, as I did, that coconut oil isn't listed, but coconut is and has lots of saturated fat. Searching the internet for the relationship between coconut oil and cholesterol found a bunch of commercial type sites often denying that coconut affects cholesterol adversely, but the medical and government sites were clearly stating that palm oil and coconut oil did elevate cholesterol. On looking at some research studies on cholesterol and saturated fat - such as www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/52 which was carried out in 2003 - it appears that coconut oil increases the bad ldl cholesterol, lowers the good hdl cholesterol and contributes to weight gain and atherosclerosis ( cardiac disease ). My interpretation is that coconut oil should be avoided when high cholesterol, above average weight or cardiac disease is present.

That's my suggestions on the topic of coconut oil and cholesterol. I feel that your bad cholesterol may decrease and your good cholesterol may increase, if you drop the coconut oil. Hope that helps. Given that you mention other health problems, you may need to see if something else can be used that will achieve the same health effects as the coconut oil supposedly did.

All the best and please let me know how things turn out.

Donald.

What Does My Cholesterol Mean? No.: 10.

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Very interesting readings, I assume they are mg/dL cholesterol measurements. Most of the cholesterol readings are very healthy by modern medical standards, if not too healthy perhaps for my liking. Using our Professional BMI CALCULATOR I find that, for a male, you are obese and that this places you at risk of developing a variety of health problems, including health problems related to heart and cardiovascular system, including stroke and, given your age, dementia may be be brought on by the obesity. I am dumbfounded as to why so many of the cholesterol readings are so low, when they should be much higher. Very good genes, perhaps, for keeping the cholesterol under control? Anyway, the doctor appears right about the hdl cholesterol being too low, though the cholesterol ratio is 3.17 : 1, which is close to being perfect! In other words the relative concentrations of good and bad cholesterol is very good. The reading of 30 for the hdl cholesterol traditionally suggests you are at risk of coronary heart disease, but all your readings for cholesterol and triglycerides are about half of what one would expect them to be. Bottom line, yes, if you go through my web site you may be able to increase your hdl cholesterol to what is normal for the population, but I think a heart specialist may be a preferred option. Are you on cholesterol medication? If so, it may be worthwhile going back to discuss this in greater detail with your doctor, to see if the cholesterol medication needs to be altered in doseage or frequency or a different cholesterol medication tried.

I'm not use to cholesterol readings being this low, that could be because I deal with people who have high cholesterol problems, so don't get too alarmed by what I've said above. However, I would really love you to get back to me and let me know what gets sorted out. If you need more cholesterol information from me, please feel free to ask.

Kind regards,

Donald.

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