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Hi All, I practice ADF and Low Carb. Should this latest report get alarm bells ringing? (Latest HBA1C is 6.1, following a 6.0). Fasting status: Fasting Total Chol. * 6.9 (< 5.6) mmol/L HDL Chol. 1.8 (> 1.0) mmol/L LDL Chol. * 4.8 (< 2.5) mmol/L Non-HDL Chol. * 5.1 (< 3.9) mmol/L Triglyceride...

Hi fellows, Here is my recent report on cholesterol readings and the A1c, which is stable at 30 for few months now. HDL has greatly improved over the recent months and TG has gone down, any comments, suggestions? I did decrease dairy fat intake in the last 4 months and my LDL has gone somehow...

Hi guys, i have just received my lipid report after 3 months of lowering saturated diary fats (double cream to single cream) and reducing cream cheese, clotted cream and moving to filtered coffee. Nothing else was changed, had to increase monosaturated fats (olive oil etc) to keep my optimal...

Peter Attia, MD is one of the most brilliant physicians I've come across in my online wanderings on the topic of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Did you know that insulinema, or high insulin levels, precedes pre-diabetes and diabetes by a decade but physicians do not typically check the fasting...

We get Round & About, a free regional magazine. In the Aug 2019 issue is an article (sadly not online too) by Mark Bennett who describes himself as "a functionally trained Nutritional Therapist (essentially a nutritional scientist working in clinical practice)". On a piece about the benefits of...

Hi All, It seems my HDL is low :0( HDL Cholesterol 0.82 mmol/L I believe it should be between 1-4. How did you go about quickly increasing your HDL ? I am vegetarian and just started on Low carb diet. My Triglycerides were up - so I also need to bring this down - thinking reducing sugar...

Hi friends, I took a venous blood test about a month ago, I guess it was the HbA1c I've seen mentioned here: my fasting bg was 13.2 (so a shock diagnosis of diabetes) and triglycerides 32.2 (sic). I went back two weeks later and had a finger-prick which said my fasting bg was 5.8; the doctor put...

Hi everyone: I had a blood test with the doctor about a month ago that said my fasting bg was 13.2, so I had type two diabetes. I went back 2 weeks later (having cut out carbs, alcohol and sugar) to discuss the results, and the doctor gave me a finger prick test which said I was 5.8. He said I...