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   LadyMont (ladymont@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 06:27:31 JST LadyMont

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   @Flick Thank heavens she won't take that good for nothing, money making scheme. Look up the stats for what was considered normal cholesterol before 2004. If she checks for that, than great. My mother's cholesterol is said to be too high as well. Looking at before 2004, it's absolutely perfect. The only time I'd be worried if it gets lower. As you get older, your cholesterol needs to go up a bit, else you'll basically die before your time.
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     TheWitchBitch ?️???️ (thewitchbitch@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 06:27:31 JST TheWitchBitch ?️???️

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     @LadyMont @Flick what are the numbers if you know? I'm having trouble finding anything.
     
     HDL, LDL, total and triglycerides?
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     LadyMont (ladymont@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 06:27:31 JST LadyMont

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     • TheWitchBitch ?️???️
     @TheWitchBitch @Flick I'm looking through my bookmarks, but can't find the link. (Have changed browser in recent years and messed up with the bookmarks) and google/duckduckgo aren't helping one bit either.
     
     Most important thing to worry about is total cholesterol divided by your HDL, if its 3.5 or close enough to it. You're good to go. And LDL is not "bad". Is just you're body regulating itself. Is your diet free or close to free of premade junkfood and you don't eat too much sugar and plant oils, but plenty of animal fat, and your waist circumference less than half your height, your "high" and "bad" ldl won't make a difference.
     
     This may be of help
     
     "Prior to 2004—and cholesterol being essentially vilified—a cholesterol level of 130 LDL was actually considered healthy.
     
     The new, updated guidelines, however, suggest people who are “at high risk” should have less than 100 (or even 70 LDL). But the only way to actually achieve these dangerously low levels according to Dr. Mercola is to take multiple cholesterol-lowering drugs, which don’t even work."
     
     From here: https://dailyhealthpost.com/statin-drugs-worthless/
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 06:27:32 JST Flick ??

     My mother had some sort of health check last week, as she’s turned 70, and bloods taken. No problems at the health check, but today she had to have another phone call because her cholesterol is high.

     It’s 5.2. Last year it was 5.7, but somehow that was fine because she was only 69 then.

     She’s just given me a ridiculously hilarious account of the conversation, in which the only part of her diet or lifestyle that the nurse could find to criticise is that she has full-fat Greek yoghurt with her breakfast of fresh fruit, and then conceded that my mother had a point in not wanting to switch to low-fat because of all the added sugar.

     The nurse then got onto the next line of the checklist and informed her that her BMI is a bit low and she could do with fattening up.

     (Before anyone says it, no, there is no way she’ll accept statins.)