Re: High Cholesterol - Good HDL to Total Ratio. What to Do?/Kara

[Guest guest]

Kara,

I really want to thank you for your e-mail. I have been on the WAPF

site and seen the articles and have begun reading " The Cholesterol

Myth. " I plan to talk this all over with my nutritionist on Wed. who

is a proponent of Nourishing Traditions. Would you mind telling me

what supplements you take to feed your thyroid? I am considering

trying to build more sea vegetables and miso into my diet to support

thyroid. I don't live in CA (I'm in New Jersey), but will show the

book and other info to my " alternative " doctor and discuss with him.

I'm beginning to feel really strongly that I don't intend to take any

kind of statin

Thanks again!

Joan

> > Has anyone dealt with this problem: I have a family history of

high

> > cholesterol. Despite the fact that my weight and general health

are

> > fine, mine ranges from the 270s to the 320s. For the last 20

years

> > I've been doing the skim milk, low fat thing to no avail. Now I'm

> > seeing a nutritionist and an alternative physician. The

> nutritionist

> > put me on to Nourishing Traditions, and I've been transitioning to

> > that diet (coconut oil, butter, kefir, lots of greens), plus

taking

> > fish oil capsules and making salad dressing including flax seed

oil

> to

> > try to help the situation. My recent blood tests were: Total

> Chol:

> > 319, HDL 94; HDL ratio to total 3.4 - which is supposed to be

> pretty

> > good; LDL 225. These numbers show virtually no change pre- and

> post-

> > my change to Nourishing Traditions foods. My regular doctor

wants

> to

> > put me on Lipitor and the alternative doctor wants to put me on

red

> > yeast rice and niacin -- and I don't want to do either! I'm in my

> > early 50s. Has anybody had similar experience -- what did you do?

> >

> > Thanks.

> > Joan