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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
Gracie, cholesterol is absolutely diet related, from what we have read (and that's a lot) genetics have less to do with it then we are led to believe, now don't start hammering me on that statement.
I can support it.
In certain countries the norm is 90-120, here we are led to believe as U just stated that <200 is good, it's not.
The target s/b <150, Dr. Esseltyn claims no one with a cholesterol below has had clogged arteries.
R your cholesterol levels with or without meds?
Ours range 130-135 no meds.
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I do believe that everyone processes their foods differently.
Some can eat junk food their entire life and live to a ripe old age.
Some can do everything right.......and succumb way too early.
It's complicated.
A close female cousin "inlaw" is as skinny as they come, DOES NOT eat junk food........eats lightly of very healthy rabbit foods and lean protein. She's had high blood pressure and high cholesterol since being diagnosed at about age 30 while carrying her first child.
This diagnosis encouraged her to be even more rigid in her food choices and upped the exercise routine. She's naturally lean and very thin.
Doctors even put her on many different anxiety meds for the variety of symptoms her entire life.
Long story short, a few years ago they replaced her mitral valve during open heart surgery..........her blood pressure is STILL HIGH.* She's still skinny as they come........is on coumadin (blood thinner) for LIFE.
Still loves the veggies and fruits.......but has to watch the consumption of naturally blood thinning veggies , of which there are quite a few.
ditto for cranberries...........so, her surgery became a double edged sword.
Her cholesterol remains high no matter what she does.
How is this explained????
Everyone's physical body is different.
It took our cousin thirty years to get an accurate diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse........in trying to repair the original valve, they accidently broke the heart strings??? and had to put in a artificial valve .......she had hoped for a lamb's valve but they gave her the metal one; I'm thinking titanium but that probably isn't correct.
Anyway, the "leaflets" of the heart valve were faulty and causing all of her health problems over the years.......but most doctors chalked it up to female anxiety..........however, again, with all the doctoring, they cannot get her blood pressure under control. Just the way her body is.....no matter what she eats or doesn't consume........and believe me, this lady is very self disciplined and rigid in her food choices.
Her main symptom used to be the feeling of "an elephant on my chest".
She even asked the surgeons if she had overdone the exercising.......
they didn't think so.