At this point, I wonder if just using animal fat is best, frying stuff in lard. Here in Japan, that's probably out of the question. Recently my doc tried to put me on statins for high cholesterol, but I refused. I need to lose weight and I've cut back on the booze. I'll test again in a few months.
When I started my current job, I had a cholesterol problem. It was 240. Old operator at the plant told me to start using habenero peppers on everything I ate. 6 months later, my cholesterol was down to 190. It currently is 140, and I've been eating habenero peppers for 18 years. Obviously not straight. But we use them in everything we cook. Fiancé has been published in Gooseberry Patch about 40 times over the years using our peppers
I love this forum! Thanks for the reply. So I have these annual health checks with my employer in the summer. Traditionally, my cholesterol would be considered high, but then I'd get tested on my own and I'd be just fine. So for the past few years, I haven't bothered getting tested. The past two years I've been at 190. My HDL is good, but LDL is bad. I'm wondering about the habanero having an effect. Could it be the capsaicin that does the trick? For the past few months, I've been taking red rice yeast with CoQ10. The night before I was retested in December, my wife wanted to have fast food. I had the fish sandwich, but really it doesn't matter what it is since it's all crap. Mind you, we rarely ever have fast food and usually when we go out to eat, we have sushi at our daughter's insistence. I haven't used red rice yeast since I lived in the USA over 10 years ago, but it did lower my cholesterol level at the time. It's also important to note that statins are a scam. My doctor at the clinic wanted to put me on statins to lower my cholesterol, and I refused.
I just did a search and found this. Apparently it is the capsaicin:
I hope that Dr is right! I'm overweight and mine keeps saying I need to drop some lbs. But I feel good at 290! That would be ok if I was 6'9". But I'm only 5'8". Im the smallest of my brothers. But I feel great! No pains, no prescriptions, blood pressure is great. I'm not believing the hype about losing weight. I think it has more to do with genetics.
eat 6-9 eggs for breakfast with some meat; for me it was either bacon, ham, or leftover steak, meatloaf, etc.
drink plenty of water...at least a gallon every day...don't be afraid to mix in coffee or tea to keep your sanity.
go for a walk and actually try to get your heart rate up...don't kill yourself, just challenge yourself and keep going. I'd usually walk twice a day for about 30-45 min. each time.
eat again but make sure it's before 5-7pm...eat whatever you want and have ice cream afterwards if you feel like it.
take your ass to bed and make sure you get plenty of sleep...get up early and repeat.
They want to reduce cholesterol because it interacts with inflamed arteries to produce plaque. If the body makes cholesterol, that's because it's needed elsewhere for other things. The problem is arterial inflammation. So, go after anti-inflammatory foods. We endlessly chase symptoms and not causes.
At this point, I wonder if just using animal fat is best, frying stuff in lard. Here in Japan, that's probably out of the question. Recently my doc tried to put me on statins for high cholesterol, but I refused. I need to lose weight and I've cut back on the booze. I'll test again in a few months.
When I started my current job, I had a cholesterol problem. It was 240. Old operator at the plant told me to start using habenero peppers on everything I ate. 6 months later, my cholesterol was down to 190. It currently is 140, and I've been eating habenero peppers for 18 years. Obviously not straight. But we use them in everything we cook. Fiancé has been published in Gooseberry Patch about 40 times over the years using our peppers
I used to work with a guy named Tim that did this and swore buy it. He had major cholesterol problems before he started doing it.
He would blend straight up habeneros and eat them like that on everything, cured his cholesterol.
Im an operator too, almost makes me wonder if we have worked together. He is the only one ive ever heard this from.
I love this forum! Thanks for the reply. So I have these annual health checks with my employer in the summer. Traditionally, my cholesterol would be considered high, but then I'd get tested on my own and I'd be just fine. So for the past few years, I haven't bothered getting tested. The past two years I've been at 190. My HDL is good, but LDL is bad. I'm wondering about the habanero having an effect. Could it be the capsaicin that does the trick? For the past few months, I've been taking red rice yeast with CoQ10. The night before I was retested in December, my wife wanted to have fast food. I had the fish sandwich, but really it doesn't matter what it is since it's all crap. Mind you, we rarely ever have fast food and usually when we go out to eat, we have sushi at our daughter's insistence. I haven't used red rice yeast since I lived in the USA over 10 years ago, but it did lower my cholesterol level at the time. It's also important to note that statins are a scam. My doctor at the clinic wanted to put me on statins to lower my cholesterol, and I refused.
I just did a search and found this. Apparently it is the capsaicin:
https://drhealthbenefits.com/herbal/herbal-spices/health-benefits-of-eating-habanero-pepper
I hope that Dr is right! I'm overweight and mine keeps saying I need to drop some lbs. But I feel good at 290! That would be ok if I was 6'9". But I'm only 5'8". Im the smallest of my brothers. But I feel great! No pains, no prescriptions, blood pressure is great. I'm not believing the hype about losing weight. I think it has more to do with genetics.
No BS I lost 100 lbs. in 9 months doing this:
eat 6-9 eggs for breakfast with some meat; for me it was either bacon, ham, or leftover steak, meatloaf, etc.
drink plenty of water...at least a gallon every day...don't be afraid to mix in coffee or tea to keep your sanity.
go for a walk and actually try to get your heart rate up...don't kill yourself, just challenge yourself and keep going. I'd usually walk twice a day for about 30-45 min. each time.
eat again but make sure it's before 5-7pm...eat whatever you want and have ice cream afterwards if you feel like it.
take your ass to bed and make sure you get plenty of sleep...get up early and repeat.
Never take statins
Lowering cholesterol is an unnecessary exercise
Every cell in the body makes it. If you lower it artificially, the body makes more.
Endless cycle
Thus, Big Pharma makes gazillion$ off cholestetol lowering drugs
Other numbers are way more meaningful for health
--Random guy on internet who says he has a degree in human biology and a D.C. :)
They want to reduce cholesterol because it interacts with inflamed arteries to produce plaque. If the body makes cholesterol, that's because it's needed elsewhere for other things. The problem is arterial inflammation. So, go after anti-inflammatory foods. We endlessly chase symptoms and not causes.
Right, the cholesterol ingeniously forms a plug to repair the microscopic lesions in arteries damaged by spiky molecules like sugars, insulin, etc.
Cholesterol is the good guy
Blaming cholesterol for artetiosclerosis is like blaming firemen for causing the fire, because whenever there's a fire you also happen to see firemen
The solution is to stop attacking the arteries with excessive carbs and insulin in the first place
Good luck, fren! Don't forget to sweat a little bit!
Animal fat is my go to, if possible. If not olive oil. Animal fat for deep frying especially.