Go Krunk Yourself
Kava Enthusiast
LDL went from 181 in August of 2016 to 204 in Feburary of 2017 to now its 262.
I've had a decent amount of weight loss (242 or 235 (cant rememebr fully) to 200 pounds since January) and only went off the diet for 1 week this whole year. Very strict Ketogenic diet. Try to limited red meat to twice a week, LOTS of chicken, good amount of fish. An avocado with olive oil everyday. I had been doing daily usage Kava then switched to spotty usage before the test but now I found my dream kava so it's been daily again. It's to such a significant elevation that it would seem unlikely that Kava would be able to make such a profound impact, but could it be worsening things?
It seems to be either two things: Familial hypercholesterolemia or an erroneous reading caused by weight loss and ketogenic diet which will correct itself once I reach the proper weight and plateau.
I always have trig's below 100 HDL above 45 usually.
The keto people tell me not to worry, tell me LDL amount is not a big risk for heard disease and due to my low trigs they are most likely the large fluffy LDL which do not oxidize as easily... But 261 just sounds abhorrently high. Higher than would be caused by diet which leads me to beleive it would be unlikely for Kava to be having a big impact.
Keep in mind between the time i went from 181 to 204 I had been consuming a TON of chopper liver, which would definitely have had an impact, but to go from 204 to 262 in 4 months seems ridiculous and either not the real picture or entirely genetic.
I expect to have higher than "normal" LDL as its common in my family, and frankly it doesn't scare em all that much as heart disease does not run in either sides of my family really and I plan to take care of myself over the years. But we're talking about 160 or so not 260. DR has not prescribed statin yet.
FYI I'm only 24.
Don't mean to tie something that could not be related to Kava at all to Kava, but I just wanted to discuss it as I've heard of people getting high readings.
I've had a decent amount of weight loss (242 or 235 (cant rememebr fully) to 200 pounds since January) and only went off the diet for 1 week this whole year. Very strict Ketogenic diet. Try to limited red meat to twice a week, LOTS of chicken, good amount of fish. An avocado with olive oil everyday. I had been doing daily usage Kava then switched to spotty usage before the test but now I found my dream kava so it's been daily again. It's to such a significant elevation that it would seem unlikely that Kava would be able to make such a profound impact, but could it be worsening things?
It seems to be either two things: Familial hypercholesterolemia or an erroneous reading caused by weight loss and ketogenic diet which will correct itself once I reach the proper weight and plateau.
I always have trig's below 100 HDL above 45 usually.
The keto people tell me not to worry, tell me LDL amount is not a big risk for heard disease and due to my low trigs they are most likely the large fluffy LDL which do not oxidize as easily... But 261 just sounds abhorrently high. Higher than would be caused by diet which leads me to beleive it would be unlikely for Kava to be having a big impact.
Keep in mind between the time i went from 181 to 204 I had been consuming a TON of chopper liver, which would definitely have had an impact, but to go from 204 to 262 in 4 months seems ridiculous and either not the real picture or entirely genetic.
I expect to have higher than "normal" LDL as its common in my family, and frankly it doesn't scare em all that much as heart disease does not run in either sides of my family really and I plan to take care of myself over the years. But we're talking about 160 or so not 260. DR has not prescribed statin yet.
FYI I'm only 24.
Don't mean to tie something that could not be related to Kava at all to Kava, but I just wanted to discuss it as I've heard of people getting high readings.
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