Just an update: How to lower your cholesterol using diet to keep your doctor off your back The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. Caveat: If you're doing LCHF and have prediabetes or diabetes, don't hesitate to go beyond the "low carb high fat crowd", and check out critical positions such as in: Understanding Type 2 Diabetes Low carb high fat can affect thyroid,by Ginny51 - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
QuoteLeAnn Thanks for your reassurance that I'm not just totally crazy! LOL! My CHADS2 score is only 1 and that's for hypertension but the revised CHADS2 VASC has my score at 2 with the addition of being female! That is what my current cardio is basing his recommendation that I be on blood thinners. I know a lot of women over the age of 65 and with a CHADS2 VASC, every one of them shouby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Colindo, Thank you! Did check it out. At the very least, this is all quite confusing. That is, those of us who read up and watch material such as this video you're mentioning are not *that* confused, let's say, but most docs refuse to budge and at the very best concede, as I've found just this week from a top University cardiologist here in Argentina, that well ... he saiby Ginny51 - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Adding to the complexity of this issue, an interesting and nuanced view: What to Do About High Cholesterol March 19, 2017 Chris Masterjohn, PhD (Nutritional Sciences) (e.g.: The four factors that control the LDL receptor)by Ginny51 - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Check out: Cholesterol Code. Reverse Engineering the Mystery. See the full video at: Dave Feldman - 'The Dynamic Influence of a High Fat Diet on Cholesterol Variability' Low Carb Down Under Caveat: If you're not familiar with Cronometer (or other similar databases, I guess) what I'll tell you now might prove confusing. I've been logging my food on Cronometerby Ginny51 - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Thank you George! Love that "premenopausal" reference as that threw me back to the past century! Lowish carb makes putting on weight even more difficult, and I'm guessing keto would be pushing it too hard, so I'm looking for some sort of a balance. My glucose and HbA1C went up and down from Sept to April, but insulin dropped steadily. As always, many many thanks,by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello, Please help me put some worrying results in better context. Results are from April 2017 and Ref values: (...) Blood Thickness: Cardiac C-reactive protein: 0.3 mg/1000 ml (up to 1.1 mg/lt) Homocysteine: 14.60 uM (5.00 a 12.00 uM) Fibrinogen: 315 mg/100 ml (200 a 400 mg/100 ml) Ferritin: 106.90 ng/ml (Women: 11.00 a 306.80 ng/ml) Hemoglobin A1C: 6.0 % (4.4 a 6.4% Hb total)by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jackie, As always, really appreciate your precision and care in answering. I'm not taking warfarin. As to why my doctor wants me to cut back on K2, I don't know. She took a blood test in her office (and kept the results, unfortunately) related to blood thickness, considered the results worrying, but I didn't catch the name or the results as at that appointment I was swaby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jackie, Could you clarify the Vitamin K2 variants? Is "Life Extension Super K with Advanced K2 complex" something entirely different to what you're discussing? The dosing seems quite different. I'm taking it and it says: Vitamin K activity 2700 mcg (from K1, K2, K3). (Serving size 1 softgel. Take one daily.) I'm taking it together with Vitamin D, Healthyby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Been lurking mostly, had a 24 hr. Holter, so any comments would be much appreciated. I'm in chronic afib for about a year now. I'm 65, tall, way too thin, Low BP, MVP and some valve regurgitation. CHADS 2, so still not taking anticoags, nor rate control drugs, as neuropathy affects my balance. Don't want to add more confusion to an upset system, risking life and limb, until I fby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Can I follow up with a question about the 100 ng/ml mark and Vitamin D doses? Shannon mentions the "sweet spot of 70-75ng/ml" for Vitamin D, in this post by Jackie. Vitamin D Improves Ejection Fraction in Heart Failure Patients I`ve also seen higher than 100 ng/ml mentioned as "toxic". My results for Vit D have been: Sept 2016 = 16.0 ng/ml (no supplementing) and afby Ginny51 - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hello Marsh, I'm in a reasonably similar situation, though in chronic Afib. I can't offer much, I'm afraid, just some comments. Been using cronometer since mid August, slowly pushing down towards 10% carbs, averaging 12% for the last 7 days, still averaging 17% since I began. I just assumed Hans Larsen's book was prior to the low-carb (10%) diet for diabetes. (Bernsteiby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
And again, George, thank you. It's slowly beginning to make a little sense. Again I appreciate your suggestion, of a *different* quality, regarding the use of a glucometer. I particularly appreciate this post of yours for the detail. Thanks!by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thank you, George! I appreciate an earlier answer of yours suggesting a glucometer, which I made to the MD and was brushed off, twice actually. You say, "If you are lowering your carb intake and everything is getting worse". My question is about a time frame for seeing changes, for a drop in Fasting Glucose, when aiming at 10% carbs (which I've only done for a month). Fastiby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thank you!! Jackie!! Always to the rescue. Amazing. Always so careful or cautious (I'm at a loss for the right words) in your replies. You really help me with this reply, in spite of the obvious differences (beta blockers), because I actually refused to take beta blockers when initially diagnosed with AF by a cardiologist. Also, this type of reply is what helps me face my endocrinologist,by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm in chronic afib since last March with bloodwork numbers suggesting diabetes. I'm tall, thin (too thin), have low BP and have lost weight in the last 6 or 8 years. I'm seeing an endocrinologist. Aug 16, she told me to aim for 10% carbs. I'm using Cronometer, keeping track since then (carbs 20%) and am down to 12%, (my trend for last 7 days). Really great site! Wheby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thank you Liz, The elusive obvious, no? Will pay more attention. tks.by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thank you, George. The Tryptophan 2mg is because some years ago this same MD gave me a higher dose of it with other supplements and she believes that is what affected me to the point I couldn't leave the sofa for 3 hours, and when in the street I had to look for a place to sit down. I thought at the time, it was low blood pressure but she believes it was a higher dose than this of tryptophby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm a chronic afibber. My new MD (orthomolecular endocrinologist) finds my blood sugar, BUN and Uric acid a little high. Blood sugar 110 mg/dl (Lab ref: 82-115) Haven't repeated the HbA1C test. BUN 40 mg/dl (Lab ref: 17-49) Uric Acid 5.7 mg/dl (Lab ref: 2.4 - 5.7) I'm tall, too thin, have low blood pressure, MVP and my most recent cholesterol is pretty low: LDL 95 mg/dby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Holly, I'm new to this and can't really be of any help to you. Sorry to distract you from your anxious request for advice on ablation. But I'm curious as to the bisoprolol as I was told to take it for rate control in chronic afib. It's not clear to me if you had an afib event, or if you were told you had afib, and if that was why you were given bisoprolol.by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Robert, I second what Phill says about acupuncture. In case you are not familiar with it, I found that at first it seemed expensive for those first results and apparently unrelated to the issue of afib. It did prove essential though as it was the only thing I could do in a clear and positive direction. I needed at that point, waiting, between a first appointment, the first shock, and then waitiby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Robert, Ouch! It's hard for me to answer because I'm new to afib (Feb 2016), in chronic afib, which is not your case, and new to this forum, but since I seem to be the first to see your post, please consider that the first thing I was told, as many others were also, is that afib is *not* life threatening. Please keep calm, sit tight, and wait for a whole bunch of very very wellby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thank you Anti-fib. 24 hr. Holters (April 2013): HR: Mean: 91 bpm / Min: 64 / Max: 136 "Normal Sinus Rhythm with high average heart rate." and Echo (April 2016) in afib: Ejection Fraction: 69% (Ref: >55%) Left Atrium: 49 (Ref: 19-40 mm) and of course a whole lot of other data, very much abbreviated and in Spanish. I'm a professional translator, I can handle it,by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anti-Fib: Thank you! How foolish fixating on a number (100) really is, to then prescribe dangerous drugs (digoxin) is exactly what I'm trying to prove to myself before I go out into the wild world of cardiologists again. My experience both with a cardiologist and a clinician has been that they both read "100" on the ECG (or the BP, a mistake, but he held his ground, when I objeby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks George and Lynn, George, I appreciate what you said in an earlier post and am keeping in mind the need for having a plan before attempting anything: "If you do try conversion, you do need a plan (like my flecainide) to deal with a reversion to afib." Trying to recover my digestive regularity after stopping some capsules I was given by my "digoxin pushing" MD, beforeby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Since I'm in chronic afib, the pulse rate on the oximeter changes almost constantly. I'm playing with jotting down the whole series over a minute, for example, adding it up and then averaging by dividing by the number of readings. They run from 15 to 25 readings. I'm guessing it is mathematically incorrect as the figures change irregularly. How close or far off the mark could theby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, Many, many thanks for your reply. ginnyby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, Thanks for your answer. The second batch of capsules I've started with now include Magnesium carbonate 300 mg, as well as 300 mg of Calcium carbonate and 300 mg Potassium gluconate. I would hope to supplement with Waller Water, but the issue becomes how to distinguish between soft stools from magnesium (I tried Epsom foot baths before starting these capsules) and soft stools frby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Jackie, you say "especially important to reduce dietary sodium and do not use supplemental calcium." The capsules I am taking were reformulated (I was having overly soft and frequent stools) and *unfortunately* this MD included (each capsule is 1/4 of a dose and I'm to take 2 a day) Calcium carbonate 300 mg and Potassium gluconate 300 mg Would (I'm supposing)by Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello George and Jackie, Many thanks for your replies helping me as a back up to the questioning of "easy conversion" via meds, and betting on electrolytes. They really help. I'll be spending even more time reading up on all your suggestions. Thank you! ginnyby Ginny51 - AFIBBERS FORUM