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Tips on raising HDL?

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Mar 25 1:13pm | Replies (19)

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@loriesco

you didn't say what your cholesterol nor your LDL is. Why would you just focus on one number. Its a ratio that is important. Also, the cholesterol numbers are becoming less important in light of other newer and better tests as markers for heart and vascular disease. LPa and APOE and many other lipid panels are being used to complement old cholesterol tests.
To answer your question. I couldn't get my numbers to move for 10 years. Then I had a Ukranian refugee come live with me and I dropped my cholesterol in 2 months from 240 to 195. When she left it went back to 240. So I repeated my diet of salmon, sardines, cod, tilapia, and more fish! It went down again! So I eat more fish! I do all the other good stuff. But it was the fish.

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Good info on the fish.

Isn't APOE the gene for alzheimers? Or did you mean ApoB?

My LDL is 82, HDL 53, Triglycerides 76. Much of this is genetic: when my oldest daughter was 17 and a competitive swimmer who practiced six days a week for four hours, and her HDL wasn’t fabulous. However, I’m adding omega 3 to my diet, committed to losing weight, and will check again in three months