Post by brantheman on May 11, 2024 0:31:22 GMT -8
Hi, its your boy bran again. I know a thing about blood cholestrol or two because my LDL has been somewhat elevated since I came down with the illness so I thought I might share my information.
Heres what we know:
So what can we do about elevated LDL and low HDL?
Long Term the best idea would be of course to adress your infections, your inflammation and your other root causes.
The short term solution is quite suprising:
Eat cholestrol. Okay that one is actually a bit exaggerated. What I mean by that is avoid sugar as much as possible and try to eat fewer carbs or atleast high quality carbs. Such as whole grain etc. What we know is that ingested cholestrol , f.e. from eggs have little to no effect on blood cholestrol. Most lipids are actually helpful maintaining a good balance between LDL and HDL. For example: Eggs contain a lot of choline wich is needed for the liver to function correctly. And was we know the HDL and LDL are produced by the liver.
The problem is sugar. Sugar, when unused, gets stored in the liver wich directly gets converted into the bad cholestrol we don't want. And while direct cholestrol from food, as from eggs isnt absorbed - through sugar it is. So keep yourself clear and avoid sugar. Don't eat unhealthy fats either though. No McDonalds for you! Haha. Good cooking alternatives are coconut oil, olive oil, ghee, butter. Avoid seed oils, avoid industrial fats.
The second line you can do is get some ocra powder. Ocra binds to bile acids and help them get excreted. Excess cholestrol is excreted through bile acid so you see where this leads.
Also psyllum husks and other fiber dense products help to clear the intestines from unused cholestrol. so this might also help...
oh and if possible for you: moderate exercise. this can be waving your arms in bed, if your bedbound.
cheerío!
Heres what we know:
- LDL = Low Densitiy Lipids = The "bad" Cholestrol. Okay, its not neccessairly bad. What they mean by this is that too much of it is bad. And that tends to happen more often.
LDL is a Lipid that transports Cholestrol out of the Liver and is most often elevated in chronic illnesses such as chronic lyme disease, chronic bartonellosis, viral problems, mold, ME/CFS-like illnesses. Whats happening here is that the inflammation disrupts the natural lipid balance leading to an increase in LDL and a depletion of HDL - HDL = High Densitiy Lipids = The "good" cop. This bad boy transports fat back to the liver and while that might sound like a bad idea, its actually very good because it cleans your body and your arteries from unwanted/unused cholestrol so it can be excreted by the liver. So you might see why he is called the good cop. The problem that we have here is that chronic inflammatory processes lead to a downstream of cytokine signals wich cause an elevation of "Serum Amyloid A" (SAA) wich is an inflammatory protein and a direct competitor to HDL. It actually binds to HDL and makes it pretty much useless. So you might see why chronic inflammatory processes lead to an depletion of HDL.
So what can we do about elevated LDL and low HDL?
Long Term the best idea would be of course to adress your infections, your inflammation and your other root causes.
The short term solution is quite suprising:
Eat cholestrol. Okay that one is actually a bit exaggerated. What I mean by that is avoid sugar as much as possible and try to eat fewer carbs or atleast high quality carbs. Such as whole grain etc. What we know is that ingested cholestrol , f.e. from eggs have little to no effect on blood cholestrol. Most lipids are actually helpful maintaining a good balance between LDL and HDL. For example: Eggs contain a lot of choline wich is needed for the liver to function correctly. And was we know the HDL and LDL are produced by the liver.
The problem is sugar. Sugar, when unused, gets stored in the liver wich directly gets converted into the bad cholestrol we don't want. And while direct cholestrol from food, as from eggs isnt absorbed - through sugar it is. So keep yourself clear and avoid sugar. Don't eat unhealthy fats either though. No McDonalds for you! Haha. Good cooking alternatives are coconut oil, olive oil, ghee, butter. Avoid seed oils, avoid industrial fats.
The second line you can do is get some ocra powder. Ocra binds to bile acids and help them get excreted. Excess cholestrol is excreted through bile acid so you see where this leads.
Also psyllum husks and other fiber dense products help to clear the intestines from unused cholestrol. so this might also help...
oh and if possible for you: moderate exercise. this can be waving your arms in bed, if your bedbound.
cheerío!
Ok so turns out it's Monday 