brin
Super Member
I reduced my Cholesterol a lot and low enough on the LDL (less than 100) not to take a statin IF I HAD NOT HAD THAT HEART ATTACK. But now the lower limit for people with confirmed heat disease is less than 70 and that is less than my body normally makes (hereditary) so I am still taking a low dose statin. My LDL is hovering around 60. The Doctors really don't care about the HDL because it acts as the garbage truck and if there is less trash to remove it is lower and more trash to remove it is higher.
However, the statin is the only med I'm taking and my wife who is also on the diet also takes no meds at all. Our weight is in the correct normal BMI range for our height and has stayed constant without counting calories and eating as much as we want. 22 mo post heart attack and no problems and I'm doing physically as much as before. Blood test levels are all in the normal range - including protein - I take no supplements.
There is one more aspect to this diet I have not mastered and will try but this will be hard. All unprocessed foods. I think I can get there now that I don't miss the animal products and oils. Last weekend I learned how to do it that made it seem easy without feeling completely deprived. I might get off statins yet....
Congratulations on your numbers Don....outstanding....your diet is working and you are obviously now enjoying the true taste of food without the need to juice it up with all of the poisons....You are winning and the proof is in the numbers....You Da Man !!!!!!