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Our brains contain cholesterol, too, so it's pretty important! Jilly60, ask your doctor for a copy of your full lipid profile and discuss it with him. It's not unusual for cholesterol to increase in the early stages of a low-carb diet, but it should have settled after 6 months. How many carbs...

Metabolic syndrome, or "Syndrome X", as it is sometimes called, includes raised cholesterol and raised blood pressure and (I think) also insulin resistance. Almost pre-diabetes, in fact, and thought to be a precursor to heart disease. Don't worry about it too much, you are probably aware of it...

You could contact them and ask why you shouldn't. I can't give blood, because I take Levothyroxin and Lisinopril, and they may affect bone marrow as well. Also because I am now too old! :( I think it's great of you to want to be a donor :clap: . Do ask them; explain what you've put in your...

My last photos seemed clear to me, but what do I know? They've asked me back for a monitoring screening in 6 months time. Look at it this way - we get screened, at no expense to ourselves, every 12 months. The screening can pick up problems that have nothing whatsoever to do with diabetes. In...

You really do need to discuss this with your doctor, as no-one who posts on here is qualified to give you an answer. Having said that, if I had a couple of "Low" comments where you have them, I'd be checking my diet for iron content. Are you vegetarian, by any chance? Iron intake can sometimes...

Hi, BaliRob I'm a great believer in listening to my body - your craving for crisps may be just that, craving salt. On site in hot summers (yes, we used to have them :shock: ) I would tell my diggers to taste the sweat on their upper lips - if it doesn't taste salty, you need some. Many years...

Unfortunately, antibiotics kill the "good" bacteria as well as the bad ones; this causes an imbalance and gives the thrush a chance to flare up again. If I'm given a course of antibiotics I always make a point of eating live yoghurt for the same time period; sometimes I also add a daily...

Isn't he the one who released a couple of very excited half-grown pigs into a formal Officers' Mess dinner? Love the man! Mind you, if I was his wife, this time I'd nail his feet to the floor! Viv 8)

Thanks! This time I've saved them in my "Diabetes" folder. :D Viv 8)

Have a look at Viv's Modified Atkins Diet, which is a Sticky Thread on the Low-carb section of the forum. It gives a good list of low-carb foods. If you want to eat more carbs than 25g/30g per day, add them in using Low GI foods, preferably vegetables, till you reach the level you want. NB you...

How long have you been low-carbing? Sometimes, in the first few months, cholesterol levels can go up - apparently because the fat-burning process sort-of loosens up the triglycerides which get into the bloodstream. Sorry, don't understand that fully myself. However, in my experience, your lipid...

Lots of people do get on with statins okay. I don't, and now I won't take them. Discuss with your GP which is the best to take. NB, best, not cheapest! Also, for a review of how statins can affect some people, Google "spacedoc.net". Duane Graveline is a US doctor, and previously was a USAF...

What a great post, Caranadol! I hadn't thought about it like that, but you are quite right. What a good retort to any rude comments! Viv 8)

Sadly, for many Type 2s who are on diet only or minimal medication, the NHS dietary advice is just about completely wrong. It would work for any diabetic who is injecting insulin because they are able to take enough insulin to cover their carbohydrates. Most of us Type 2s can't do that, and...

Oh, you kind person! :oops: :D I do my best, but there are lots of things I don't know. :crazy: If that's the case, I try to remember to say so! Viv 8)

Thanks, Phoenix, for your usual detalied answer - where do you get all this information from? Unfortunately - as I said, I'm no scientist. I can just about translate "de novo lipogenesis" from Latin and Greek (which doesn't tell me what it means!), but you pretty well lost me with the rest. I...

It depends on how you phrase the question. I'm no scientist, but I can see how I might agree that carbs aren't converted to fat - ie, not directly. However, the carbs are metabolised into glucose, and it is the excess glucose in the blood that is stored in the fat cells when the muscle/organ...

Desidiabulum posted: I couldn't resist taking it out of context! :lol: :lol: Viv 8)

You could ask your GP if he thinks Vitamin D supplements would help. Almost all of our VItamin D is made in our bodies by the effect of sunlight on skin. As we get older we make less; there is not enough sun for the process at our latitude anyway, in the winter; and I don't suppose many of us...

We are all different, and some of us can tolerate more carbs than others - and I don't mean just for blood glucose levels! I've found that I will put weight on if I eat over 70g carb a day. It doesn't go on quickly at that level, but slowly and steadily. Other people can eat much more than...