Bad Triglycerides?!
Question: Im at 264, I know it is bad, what is the best way to lower it naturally. Am I better off using meds?
Answers: Im at 264, I know it is bad, what is the best way to lower it naturally. Am I better off using meds?
Fortunately, elevated triglycerides is one of the easiest problems to correct with the appropriate diet. Simple restriction of all sugars and grains.
Sugars and grains and require insulin secretion, which is a potent stimulus to the liver to produce triglycerides, and sugars and grains must be reduced if you are looking to lower your triglycerides.
High triglycerides in the blood are often seen in overweight people. But even people who are not overweight may have stores of fat in their arteries as a result of insulin resistance. These triglycerides in the blood are the direct result of carbohydrates from the diet being converted by insulin.
Well, there are a lot of options out there, and sometimes it can be difficult to know what to do. If you have a doctor in your area that knows about supplements, I would suggest asking them what would be your best option. The next best option would be to talk to a nutritionist to work out a diet plan (without drugs) to help with your Cholesterol. Usually they'll have you increase soluble fibers, fruits, veggies, etc. and decrease some of the bad foods (some sugars, certain fatty foods, etc).... but they can work out what would work best for you in particular.
If that's not an option, there are several supplements I could mention that would be beneficial for helping with Cholesterol health. Some of the most popular are Red Yeast Rice, Policosanol, Oat Bran (or other Oat products including oatmeal), Beta-Sitosterol, Pantethine, Niacin, and most general soluble fiber products. Each of those help with different aspects of Cholesterol health, so you may need a variety of them... try one or two of them out. Good luck!
one thing you can do is limit the fruit you eat, basically any sugars. also larger doses of fish oil was suggested to my husband by his doctors at Mayo clinic as a way to help lower high triglycerides.