cholesterol

It's inexpensive, it's tasty, and it'll allow you to finally tell your doctor where he can stick his statins. You know, to be frank, I don’t know how much cholesterol levels matter when it comes to heart health. (And neither does anyone else, really.) Even when you combine cholesterol with all...

The Truth About Cholesterol, Fat, and Heart Disease You’re being lied to. Here’s what’s true and untrue about taking care of your heart health. Jake recently underwent heart surgery – a quintuple bypass. Amazingly, he didn’t have any of the traditional risk factors. His blood pressure and...

by TC Luoma High Cholesterol Might Make You Live Longer A couple of unheralded research papers claim that it's actually low LDL cholesterol that's bad and that statins should be discontinued. I want to tell you a story that offers up a little perspective on the topic of cholesterol. It involves...

Dr. Lonnie Lowery fills your noggin with the latest dietary fat research, including what fats you should be eating to gain muscle and lose that belly! As Dr. Lonnie Lowery said during our last chat, bodybuilders and physique-conscious gym monkeys are so far ahead of “normal people” when it comes...

Cool Tricks to Make Your Body Healthier A listicle of tips and food hacks to improve your health, reduce your waistline, make you live longer, and make you better at sexin' it up. Eating has gotten to be like alchemy for me. It’s no longer just about fueling my body or finding new culinary...

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Optimize your T levels with these training and diet tips. Testosterone is the father of all muscle-building hormones, because it promotes protein synthesis. Whether you’re training to get bigger, faster, leaner, or stronger, Testosterone is the steroid hormone that can make a world of...

THE COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE DISEASE Type-2 diabetes affects around 24 million Americans, maybe more if you count the number of people who have it but don't know it yet. And about 86 million more have prediabetes: high blood glucose levels but not high enough yet to get the full diagnoses. Most...

Eggs are a constant source of research and differing opinion, since they are such a staple food for millions of us, but much of the information that is written about eggs is focussed on “regular” people and only looks at topics such as cholesterol as relates to heart disease, or simply how many...

Up until a few years ago, vitamin B3 or niacin was one of two supplements (the other being fish oil) widely recommended for heart health. Fat hearts, skinny hearts, hearts that climb on rocks... Grinch hearts, clogged hearts, even hearts with a COX-2 inhibitor-induced increase in cardiovascular...

Anyone on here have any good tips on dropping down elevated LDL without medication? I know getting off gear, dropping red meats and fats helps. As well as adding fiber. Any other recommendations?

Sometimes it can be confusing determining which nutrition experts you can trust. When it comes to eggs, one study finds them good for you, and then next one calls them dangerous. So which ones are right. Although this back-and-forth, widely-debated topic can be confusing, determining whether an...

Should We Eat It Every Day? Eggs Are Tired, Boss Hey, do you remember John Coffey from “The Green Mile”? (“I’m tired, boss…”) It’s a stretch, but I see a similarity between Coffey and chicken eggs. No, really. To begin with, both were wrongly accused of horrible crimes. In the case of Coffey...

High Cholesterol Might Make You Live Longer Cholesterol Science: Something is Off I want to tell you a story that offers up a little perspective on the topic of cholesterol. It involves my mother. She was wasting away from a catastrophic trio of lung cancer, chemo, and radiation, and I tried...

Letrozole is an anti-estrogen of the Aromatase Inhibitor (AI) family and is one of the most potent and powerfully effective of all AI’s. In fact, its potency is sometimes too much for some to handle when used for off label use. Letrozole first gained U.S. FDA approval in 1997. Although Femara is...

by Arielle Weg Many of us grew up thinking cholesterol = bad. Eat a lot of cholesterol, end up with high cholesterol, right? Well, that might not be the case. The United States Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines once capped daily cholesterol consumption at 300 milligrams, but dropped...

There is a multitude of good information on AAS. I won't and can't cover it all here. Here's a real short version: Not the DEA, AMA, NJEM, ACS, AHA, US Army...not one organization...recommended that AAS be controlled. In fact, they all recommended that the remain over the counter, or "legend"...

The word “cholesterol” is often interpreted as a major health concern regarding cardiovascular health. When most people think of cholesterol they think of “Good Cholesterol” & “Bad Cholesterol.” The “Good Cholesterol” is associated with High Density Lipo-Proteins (HDL) & “Bad Cholesterol” is...

BergaMonte® (Bergamot Polyphenolic Fraction®) is a widely researched, patented extract derived from Citrus bergamia, a citrus fruit that is postulated to be a hybrid of lemon and bitter orange. Citrus bergamia trees blossom during the winter, and the fruit has a taste that is mildly sour but...

Live for lipids By Daniel Rocha Lipids include triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols such as cholesterol. Lipids dissolve in solvents like alcohol and acetone, but they are not soluble in water. The body uses fats and other lipids to provide and store energy, form and maintain cell...