Lowering LDL to help bones

That's so interesting. I didn't realize fish oil lowered triglycerides! Thanks for this info as well. I really appreciate it.

I think, if you increased your salmon, cod, tuna, halibut,(some fishes can get really expensive) sardines, white fish, shrimp, catfish you will see an immediate impact the next time you test. Eat sockeye and wild. West Coast caught fish and not East Coast Atlantic farm fish. I have inflammatory problems and anything farmed makes my joints stiff. So if you have a problem with inflammatory type, arthritis is next the shrimp and go really low on the tuna and the sardines and the mackerels because they have purines. Also, what are you doing for exercise? That’s an important component and puzzle piece. It doesn’t have to be much but what are you doing in that regard?
The plant-based stuff can be really tricky. A lot of people think being vegan is healthy and they substitute good lean proteins for fatty plant based products. One example is cashew based pesto and cheeses. Some of the really good tasting plant based products are super fatty and they work against Your cholesterol and triglycerides. What most people don’t know is that your body has its own signature cholesterol. So you don’t use the cholesterol from the eggs directly. But what you do, that is wrong is give your body, the elements, the building blocks, of cholesterol Readily available in the fatty plant based products and so it’s skyrocket your LDL and your triglycerides. I had a lot of nutritional chemistry in college in the 70s and 80s and nothing’s really changed about the simplicity of cholesterol. You might be thinking you are doing good for your body but if you’re eating processed plant-based stuff there’s probably a lot of hidden fats!

All great points. I have psoriasis, an autoimmune disease -- started at age 13. But when I quit eating meat and dairy over a decade ago, my lesions healed up and went away and have not come back. Vegan diets can be very unhealthy if people eat processed food, but I only eat a whole food plant-based diet -- lots of salads, oatmeal, soy yogurt that is plain and unsweetened with raw or dry roasted, unsalted almonds and fresh apples or cherries, unsalted beans and brown rice (salt is bad for psoriasis and causes inflammation for me, so I try not to buy things that are already salted and add my own salt sparingly if at all), Ezekial Cinnamon raison cereal with unsweetened soy milk with no additives, apples and nuts for snacks, pole-caught Whole Foods unsalted tuna in water with vegan mayo, mustard, lemon juice and celery on Ezekial 4:9 sprouted whole grain bread with sliced tomatoes, hummus with whole wheat pita or veggies, sometimes Ezekial bread with unsalted almond butter from Trader Joe's with nothing but almonds in it, and some unsweetened wild blueberry jam, berry smoothies with kale and flax and chia seeds and unsweetened coconut water with no additives ... you get the picture. Yet my triglycerides have gone up from 88 to 95 -- maybe as a result of aging? And my LDL is still high -- I just got it down from 157 to 125.1 using Cholestoff Plus plant sterols for a couple of months, which helped. For a treat, I make oatmeal and flax cookies with no added butter and oil, whole wheat flour, applesauce, almond butter, cinnamon. Tasty and much healthier than regular cookies or packaged snacks, which I try never to eat. But they are still carbs, and maple syrup is still a sweetener. My lipid specialist says saturated fat isn't the only thing that raises LDL -- carbs do too. And I've known that sugar raises triglycerides and causes more inflammation, so I avoid it. For someone who eats like I do to have high LDL is mystifying to me -- but my doc told me that diet only affects 20% of our cholesterol levels -- the other 80% is hereditary and has to do with how much cholesterol is manufactured in the liver (? I think I got that right). Any thoughts?

Also, I weight train 3 times a week in a barbell class and do stairmaster 100 floors with 15 pounds of plates in a backpack 2X a week. Work is busy, so I'm not running lately, although I've been a runner since my twenties.

Good to know. I will probably pull the trigger on it and hopefully, like you, may be only once a month. Genetics really do make things suck sometimes. 😊 The Apo and Lpa I will just have to deal with. Thank you for your post. I was on the fence with injections, but I will probably go on it when I see cardiologist next month.

My doctor prescribed Rosuvastatin. The only drug that has reduced my LDL and Triglycerides.

Mine personally are lowered with fish oil and exercise. Plant based fats like avocados are actually good for you. Agree some others are not.

Statins to some of us are time bombs for severe myalgia, polymyalgia. Mine was so severe, it locked up my low back muscles and had to go to ER because I was stuck in fetal position. They definitely work. Zetia is okay but I need more. Repatha is prescribed. I will have to try and see what happens.

Fish oil reduced triglycerides tremendously. I do eat plant-based fats through avocados which are good for you. I also live with a man whose body is addicted to sugar and carbs. He continues to fill the pantry with his addiction. I can be very good, but I can be bad. I love recipes in the Blue Zone for Americans book. I still eat chicken and have increased fish more. I have an autoimmune disease that seems to be hampering my exercise. Gluteal Tendinopathy and tendonitis throughout my hips and knees keep exercising to a minimum. Agree sugars and bad carbs instead of complex carbohydrates might help but it is also related to autoimmune. It flares. So, far my calcium scores are below 25 but advanced lipids are high. At 68, there are some things you can do and some things your body's genetics control.

If your lipids are high consider cutting down on the plant based fats. There happens to be a lot of them in vegetarian convenient foods. I read the labels. I have to be lactose and gluten free and when I go to places like Trader Joe’s, they have a lot of what seems to be healthy products, but they’re actually very high in fat content!
I also would suggest that exercise isn’t going to interfere with auto immune disease and flares. There’s something else going on. Taking a gentle walk for 30 minutes every day and deep, breathing yoga and making sure you’re doing your laundry standing up and putting away your dishes and reaching May be hard when you first start, but you do need to use your muscles or you lose them. A physical therapist can help you find a happy medium. I’ve suffered with things like gluteal tendinitis and my whole adult life and a program for stretching is really helpful. Maybe try ZAZZEE tart cherry capsules and see if you have any gout going on. They’re $20 on Amazon. I had a lot of inflammatory issues And although that’s different than an autoimmune disease they react similarly. Good luck oh and every once in a while, I’m a bad girl too, but I just feel like crap after I eat bad so I keep it to a minimum 😊