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High Cholesterol with normal blood sugar level

jcbman said:
Normal for norfolk
NFA - no further appointments, usually a patient that has agreed to opt out, and self diagnose and treat themselves outside the NHS system and advise, at their responsibility.
Google is your friend!
That's how I found this site.
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OK, thanks!
 
Depending on which area of the country you are from, you may not know that Norfolk has a reputation for inbreeding which can result in low IQ and physical deformity.

Hence the Norfolk greeting of "Give me six!".

Baseless rumour these days, but possibly some basis when the extensive fenlands made travel very difficult and led to small, isolated communities. Before the Dutch came and drained them.

See https://www.discovernorfolk.co.uk/story/history-of-the-fens-81/ and also http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/normans_14.html.

" Ely at that time was an island in the fenland, William was foiled on three occasions by Hereward in his attempts to build a causeway across the impassable marshes, known as the Aldreth Causeway. However, during William's first attack the weight of the troops on the bridge was so great that the causeway sank and many soldiers drowned."

Fascinating subject, diabetes.:cool:
 
LittleGreyCat said:
Depending on which area of the country you are from, you may not know that Norfolk has a reputation for inbreeding which can result in low IQ and physical deformity.

Hence the Norfolk greeting of "Give me six!".

Baseless rumour these days, but possibly some basis when the extensive fenlands made travel very difficult and led to small, isolated communities. Before the Dutch came and drained them.

See https://www.discovernorfolk.co.uk/story/history-of-the-fens-81/ and also http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/normans_14.html.

" Ely at that time was an island in the fenland, William was foiled on three occasions by Hereward in his attempts to build a causeway across the impassable marshes, known as the Aldreth Causeway. However, during William's first attack the weight of the troops on the bridge was so great that the causeway sank and many soldiers drowned."

Fascinating subject, diabetes.:cool:
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Hereward The Wake! Wish there was more known about him.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
Depending on which area of the country you are from, you may not know that Norfolk has a reputation for inbreeding which can result in low IQ and physical deformity.

Hence the Norfolk greeting of "Give me six!".

Baseless rumour these days, but possibly some basis when the extensive fenlands made travel very difficult and led to small, isolated communities. Before the Dutch came and drained them.

See https://www.discovernorfolk.co.uk/story/history-of-the-fens-81/ and also http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/normans_14.html.

" Ely at that time was an island in the fenland, William was foiled on three occasions by Hereward in his attempts to build a causeway across the impassable marshes, known as the Aldreth Causeway. However, during William's first attack the weight of the troops on the bridge was so great that the causeway sank and many soldiers drowned."

Fascinating subject, diabetes.:cool:
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Well, you learn something new every day!! :D
 
LittleGreyCat said:
Depending on which area of the country you are from, you may not know that Norfolk has a reputation for inbreeding which can result in low IQ and physical deformity.

Hence the Norfolk greeting of "Give me six!".

Baseless rumour these days, but possibly some basis when the extensive fenlands made travel very difficult and led to small, isolated communities. Before the Dutch came and drained them.

See https://www.discovernorfolk.co.uk/story/history-of-the-fens-81/ and also http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/normans_14.html.

" Ely at that time was an island in the fenland, William was foiled on three occasions by Hereward in his attempts to build a causeway across the impassable marshes, known as the Aldreth Causeway. However, during William's first attack the weight of the troops on the bridge was so great that the causeway sank and many soldiers drowned."

Fascinating subject, diabetes.:cool:
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That's the facetious NFN
I'd be more upset at the NFA probably, when the NHS wipe their hands of you, and feel you have provided enough ammo to justify cutting you loose, with no comeback on them for any negligence.
Not somewhere I'd like to feel I was.
Still, we all need to find our happy place.
 
bulkbiker said:
The "new" thinking about cholesterol is that the absolute number is irrelevant and far more important are ratios between the types that make up that number. So if we don't know what the individual numbers are it's very hard to say what is going on. Needless to say a lot of GP's are way behind the curve on this.
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Just found out that my triglyceride reading is 1.0
 
steph81170 said:
Just found out that my triglyceride reading is 1.0
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From that page I linked to
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If lipid values are expressed as mmol/L (like in Australia, Canada, and Europe);

TG/HDL-C ratio less than 0.87 is ideal

TG/HDL-C ratio above 1.74 is too high

TG/HDL-C ratio above 2.62 is much too high'

So if your Trigs number was 1 and your HDL was 2.4 then we get 1/2.4 which equals 0.4167 which is IDEAL
Well done you!
 
By the by .. it's highly unlikely that your doctor will know about this as it's fairly cutting edge research.. well probably new in the last 5 years and probably not on the curriculum at med school yet so they'll probably try and get you onto statins anyway. A sad but oft seen state of affairs.
 
bulkbiker said:
From that page I linked to
"
If lipid values are expressed as mmol/L (like in Australia, Canada, and Europe);

TG/HDL-C ratio less than 0.87 is ideal

TG/HDL-C ratio above 1.74 is too high

TG/HDL-C ratio above 2.62 is much too high'

So if your Trigs number was 1 and your HDL was 2.4 then we get 1/2.4 which equals 0.4167 which is IDEAL
Well done you!
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Oh phew!! Thank you :)
 
bulkbiker said:
By the by .. it's highly unlikely that your doctor will know about this as it's fairly cutting edge research.. well probably new in the last 5 years and probably not on the curriculum at med school yet so they'll probably try and get you onto statins anyway. A sad but oft seen state of affairs.
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I've recently moved back to UK after living in France for 11 years and was assigned to a young, S. African GP who is fully clued up on LCHF and agrees with everything I'm doing!! I think if I show her these readings next time I see her, she'll take them onboard.
Many thanks for your help and advice.
 
steph81170 said:
I've recently moved back to UK after living in France for 11 years and was assigned to a young, S. African GP who is fully clued up on LCHF and agrees with everything I'm doing!! I think if I show her these readings next time I see her, she'll take them onboard.
Many thanks for your help and advice.
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Great news.. you have one of the few...
Where in France did you live? I used to be north of Bordeaux in the Medoc.
 
bulkbiker said:
Great news.. you have one of the few...
Where in France did you live? I used to be north of Bordeaux in the Medoc.
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Thanks! I'm so pleased! I think I was lucky enough to find out early that I had pre-diabetes so set out to do something about it pdq. . .
I lived in the Tarn, about an hour north of Toulouse. Loved it, but for various reasons have come back - it was a great experience!
 
Well, my doc must be well outside the new classroom then, he'd be pretty down with that LDL,.

But, no doc can make you do something if you don't want to.
 
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