In the last Heart Scan Blog post, I described Daniel's experience reducing his triglycerides from 3100 mg/dl to around 1100 mg/dl with use of omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil, along with modifications in his diet. This was accomplished in the space of around two weeks.
An update: Daniel has continued another 10 days on his fish oil, along with elimination of wheat, cornstarch, and sugars.
Repeat triglyceride: 202 mg/dl. That's 93.5% reduction in the space of three weeks--no drugs involved.
Daniel really did nothing extraordinary. He simply followed the simple advice I provided to take a moderate dose of EPA+DHA from over-the-counter fish oil supplements, along with elimination of the foods that are extravagant triggers of triglycerides.
He's got just a little further to go to achieve the biologically ideal level of less than 60 mg/dl. You can see that it is not really that difficult--provided someone didn't load you down with nonsense about "cutting your fat," or statin or fibrate drugs.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Triglyceride Buster-Update
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What is the dosage and frequency of fish oil supplements you recommend?
Your Update is amazing! My triglycerides was 496 around 9 weeks back, and just with Vit D3 and Omega 3s, it came down to 283. But Vit D3 shot up from a dangerously low of 12.2 ng/ml to 239 ng/ml. I am 'trying' to be on a low-carb high dietary fat. Should I take remedial measures to 'lower' my D levels?
Sifter--
Please put "fish oil" or "omega-3" into the site-specific search and you'll come up with the previous posts detailing this issue, a question to which there is no "___ mg" answer.
@ Ganesh Kumar
But Vit D3 shot up from a dangerously low of 12.2 ng/ml to 239 ng/ml.
The only time I've had a high reading was a faulty test. A repeat test a few weeks later showed normal readings.
The half life of D3 is about 3 weeks. Stopping D3 supplementation should allow level to drop from 240 to 120ng in 3 weeks and then to 60ng by week 6, depending on sunshine exposure.
Postal Vitamin D testing isn't that expensive
80ng is a reasonable natural maximum level. But as I have found it could possibly be a fluke test result. However living where you do should allow sufficient vitamin D from sunshine over the next 6 weeks and so it's best to be on the safe side and avoid supplementing while your status drops and a retest is ordered.
is it realy the omega 3 yhats is to thank for low tryglicerides ,lets look from scratch from we are coming from ,we loaded ourself with denatured refined hydrogenated omega 6 oil ,vs our omega 3 are the live healthy form one ,add to this the debate outhere on the right ratio between the 3 and 6 oils ,all this may conclude that eliminating all the junk oils and consuming only live natural organic fats ,than will find that omega 6 does reducr even more tryglicerides then omega 3 does!!!
I see these commercials for Mega Red Krill Oil that are supposedly 3x more effective than fish oil. Is this bunk?
My last lipid test showed triglycerides at 52mg/dl.
That may have something to do with my taking 1.3 grams of EPA/DHA omega-3 fish oil three times a day over the past year.
Interesting blog. I like to take 2x 300mg of omega 3 oils per day.
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