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by susique1947, Sep 05, 2009 12:05PM
Is there anything you can do to lower your triglycerides
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by erijon, Sep 05, 2009 02:34PM
Cut the carbs, like sugars, breads and pastas. Also, there are meds like Tricor to help lower your tri's. You can also increase your exercise, that will lower your tri's and increase your HDL, a win, win!

by ed34, Sep 05, 2009 09:37PM
The true relationship between cholesterol and trigs is still not really fully understood. Trigs are like energy packs for you. If you start running, you use trigs until fat reserves in
the body can be released. So exercise helps, but only for short bursts. Once your fat reserves start to be released the trigs are left alone for the next bout of exercise.
As you use fat reserves, LDL cholesterol is used to replace it and this then alters the ratio of HDL to LDL cholesterol meaning there are less LDL to each HDL which is good.

by susique1947, Sep 06, 2009 07:58AM
To: erijon
THANK YOU FOR THE INFO
JUST HAD BLOOD WORK
AND MY TRIGS WAS 787 WHCH WE BOTH KNOW IS DANGERIOUSLY HIGH
GOT TO GET TO WORK ON LOWERING THEM ANYWAY I CAN.

by marcmega, Sep 06, 2009 10:09AM
To: erijon
my trig is 95 is that too low!! ....let me know!!

by ed34, Sep 06, 2009 04:40PM
95 is fantastic. That equates to 1.04 mmol/L
Anything below 1.7 is considered very safe and most of the population have well above
1.7  
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