[Villages PL]

I received this report this morning and couldn't be happier. I talked about this in previous posts and said I would update it. So here it is:

My very first TSH test for thyroid came in at 8.88

My next test, after making some diet changes, came in at 5.71

Then I decided to take a small amount of Kelp, in tablet form, for the iodine. And today my TSH was 2.93

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Cholesterol:

--- ---------------- Today's Report..........................6 months ago
Total Cholesterol.........143........................... ...............182

HDL............................60................. ............................68

LDL.............................67................ ............................100

Triglycerides.................78.................. ...........................72


So the biggest improvement was for total cholesterol and LDL. LDL made a big move from 100 down to 67.

How did I do it? For a long time I was puzzled because my diet was about as good as I could possibly get it with all natural whole foods etc.. But about 5 days before I was due to get blood drawn, I came up with an idea.

I had been listening to a lot of radio talk shows, on and off. And, more and more, I was finding them to be aggravating because of lots of bad news and commercials. So I decided to keep the radio turned off completely for 4 days prior to having blood drawn, hoping that less stress would translate to lower LDL.

But I never expected LDL to go from 100 down to 67 in just 4 days. I'm totally amazed.

Correction: After I posted I remembered one other change I made. After I got the results showing my LDL at 100, I decided to stop eating my weekly ration of 3 whole eggs. But it was only 3 eggs per week, not a big change, although it could have helped. Some people say that dietary cholesterol doesn't cause high cholesterol.