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Prediabetes Is cheese good for cholesterol

saky

saky

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Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
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Diet only
Since am doing low carb, I have just started eating high fat items like cheese. Doesn't cheese increase ldl?
I have a family history of heart disease.
Cardiologist told me to avoid it..or go for low fat milk cheese...
 
I don't really bother about cholesterol but for what it's worth - after three years of keto and lots of cheese and eggs and dairy and red meat - my total cholesterol figure is now lower than it's ever been. I forget the exact figure but I think the body makes about 75-80% of its own cholesterol.
 
Antje77 said:
For what it's worth, my lipids all greatly improved after adding more fats (including all the so called bad saturated fats in cheese, butter, bacon, eggs) and reducing carbs.
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your ldl dropped?
my triglycerides drooped , hdl increased but ldl went up...
 
saky said:
your ldl dropped?
my triglycerides drooped , hdl increased but ldl went up...
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So look into your ratios perhaps or ask questions about what particle size that ldl is? Or if it’s calculated (based on assumptions that are not valid on low carb) or measured?

Theres a huge amount to the cholesterol discussion that goes way way beyond “reduce the total/ldl as low as possible”. I’m convinced most drs just follow the (medically debated) guidelines and couldn’t explain it if you asked. Look up the massive thread by bulkbiker in here on the subject if you want to dig deeper.
 
saky said:
your ldl dropped?
my triglycerides drooped , hdl increased but ldl went up...
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I was diagnosed with diabetes at the end of 2016 and changed my diet to less carbs and more fats (lots of cheese, I love cheese!), and started insulin.
The initial sharp drop was a very short period on statins but haven't been on them again since the spring of 2017.


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And for what it's worth I've always eaten (normal/full fat) cheese - and other dairy products - all my life and never had any cholesterol issues. The only exception being that I preferred to use semi-skimmed milk in my coffee etc, before I was diagnosed as t2
 
HSSS said:
So look into your ratios perhaps or ask questions about what particle size that ldl is? Or if it’s calculated (based on assumptions that are not valid on low carb) or measured?

Theres a huge amount to the cholesterol discussion that goes way way beyond “reduce the total/ldl as low as possible”. I’m convinced most drs just follow the (medically debated) guidelines and couldn’t explain it if you asked. Look up the massive thread by bulkbiker in here on the subject if you want to dig deeper.
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Okay. Will go for detailed cardiac profile with apo a, b etc.
Will checkout bulkbiker's post also
 
KennyA said:
I don't really bother about cholesterol but for what it's worth - after three years of keto and lots of cheese and eggs and dairy and red meat - my total cholesterol figure is now lower than it's ever been. I forget the exact figure but I think the body makes about 75-80% of its own cholesterol.
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Yes! Most ldl is made by the liver!
 
saky said:
Okay. Will go for detailed cardiac profile with apo a, b etc.
Will checkout bulkbiker's post also
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Bulk biker post ?

Cholesterol and Statins

There are always a lot of threads about Statins and Cholesterol and we all post our various favourite bits of current presentations about them but I thought it might be handy to have them all in one thread. I meant to put this together soon after the get together in Birmingham (sorry @Debandez)...
www.diabetes.co.uk www.diabetes.co.uk
 
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