The purpose of this website is to present, to all who want the knowledge, a natural, safe and dependable method through which individuals can lower their elevated blood triglyceride levels. If you put your mind to it you can achieve astonishing results. By having the whole page printed, you can read it in a nice easy chair, away from that glaring monitor.
Triglyceride gets its name from its chemical structure: a molecule of triglyceride is composed of a backbone of the alcohol glycerol to which three fatty acids ("tri") are bound, hence its name: "tri-glyceride." Any combination of saturated, monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated fatty acids can be in a triglyceride molecule.
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A good way to envision a triglyceride molecule is to look at your hand. Hold out the three center fingers and fold back the thumb and little finger. The three fingers are the three fatty acids and your hand is the glycerol. As the three fingers are different, so the three fatty acids in a triglyceride can be different. The fatty acids can be long or short, saturated (stiff) or unsaturated (bendable).
Being of plant (vegetable) or animal origin, triglycerides are found in
- body fat (as solids in peripheral adipocytes)
- cooking oil (corn, soybean, peanut, olive oil)
- shortenings, mainly canola-based (used for baking cookies, breads, pie crust etc., and for frying, especially in volume cooking in schools, hospitals, cafeterias, restaurants etc.)
- lard (pork fat)
- beef fat
- milk
- butter, and
- cheese.
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Grab a hold of your love handles - those wobbly stubborn pieces of fat on the sides of the waist - and you've got a handful of triglycerides. Eat a steak, and you've got a mouthful of them...
When we eat fatty products, the triglycerides end up in our blood. Even when we don't eat them, triglycerides are present in our blood. Our bodies make them from excess carbohydrate in our diet.
The Triglyceride Transport System
As found in the bloodstream, triglycerides are fats being transported from intestines to body cells. They may originate from two sources:
Dietary fats (from food) are absorbed through the gut – the intestines where they are assembled (synthesized) into special “lipid packets” called chylomicrons, a microscopic lipid particles formed during fat digestion and assimilation.
Chylomicrons, containing approximately 85 percent triglycerides, are then delivered through the bloodstream to the liver, where they are processed (the normal half-life of chylomicrons is about 10 minutes).
One of the main jobs of the liver is to make sure that all the tissues of the body receive the triglycerides they need to function at optimal levels. Whenever possible (i.e., for about 8 hours after a meal), the liver takes up dietary triglycerides from the chylomicrons produced in the intestines.
However, fats are not soluble in water. Because the liquid part of blood is made up with water, the liver packages triglycerides, along with special proteins, into tiny water-soluble packages-spheres, or carrier molecules, called very low density lipoproteins, or VLDL. In this form, they are released into the circulation and delivered to the cells of the body.
Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL)
If fact VLDL is one of three, synthesized by the liver major "lipid packets,” which include high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL). Each one of these "packets" contains triglyceride and cholesterol, but in varying amounts unique to each packet.
As their name suggests, very low density lipoproteins (VLDLs) are much lighter than low density lipoproteins (LDL), containing mainly cholesterol, and high density lipoproteins (HDL), containing mostly the excess cholesterol removed from tissues and carried back to the liver.
This is because of their makeup - VLDL particles contain less protein and more fat (mainly triglycerides) than both LDL and HDL. In fact, fatty triglycerides account for approximately 50 percent of the dry weight of a VLDL molecule, compared to only 5 to 10 percent for LDL and HDL. It contains so much triglyceride, in fact, that you can get an idea of what the VLDL concentration is by dividing the triglyceride value by 5.
At present, there is no direct way of measuring VLDL, so the direct measurement of triglyceride is considered the next best thing, and the calculation is done if needed. However, the more VLDL is produced by the liver, the higher triglycerides, and the more fat in the blood. A high level of VLDL ("normal" is 1-30, optimal is below 20) also goes hand in hand with a low level of protective HDL-"good" cholesterol.
Furthermore, as VLDL travels through the bloodstream – its normal half-life is about 9 hours - cells remove its triglycerides, which are replaced with cholesterol.
(The half-life of a substance refers to the time required to eliminate or metabolize half of the total quantity of the substance from the body following its digestion.)
However, any disturbance in lipid synthesis causing an excess of intestinal chylomicrons and/or and excess of VLDLs produced in the liver, or any disturbance in their metabolism (breakdown) will cause elevations in triglyceride levels in the bloodstream.
This is bad news. According to many experts, triglycerides themselves can be harmful to the cardiovascular system. Also, excess fat makes the blood more sluggish and reduces its ability to carry oxygen to cells.
Physical Symptoms of High Triglycerides
Most people with borderline-high (150 - 199 mg/dL, or 1.7–2.3 mmol/L) or high triglycerides (200 - 499 mg/dL, or 2.3–5.6 mmol/L) will not have any symptoms. That's what makes it so scary. Because no one feels badly with high triglycerides, a lot of people simply have no clue!
Even in people with severe blood triglycerides - 1000 mg/dL, or 11.3 mmol/L, or acutely and massively elevated triglycerides - results from the physical examination are variable, ranging from normal examination results to one or more of the following findings:
- When sustained elevated triglycerides are well above 1000 mg/dL sometimes eruptive xanthomas are found. These are 1- to 3-mm pin-head yellow papules, or bumps on an erythematous base occurring mostly on the back, buttocks, chest, bony elbows, knees and heels.
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A close-up of an eruptive xanthoma on the back of a man with a triglyceride level of 4600 mg/dL, or 51.9 mmol/L and acute pancreatitis. In all people, eruptive xanthomas are a sign of severe blood triglyceride levels. |
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The lesions are caused by accumulations of chylomicrons and will disappear gradually when triglycerides are kept below 1000 mg/dL. If the diagnosis of eruptive xanthomas, a benign condition, is in doubt, obtaining a biopsy of the suspicious lesions will reveal accumulations of fat (not cholesterol).
- Adults with dysbetalipoproteinemia (type III) - a rare lipid disorder with high levels of blood triglycerides (greater than 400 mg/dL or even 1000 mg/dL) and cholesterol - may have palmar xanthomas (yellowish creases of the palms). This type of xanthoma is considered characteristic of this disorder. Tuberous or tuberoeruptive xanthomas, which also may occur in other hyperlipidemias, may arise on the elbows, knees, or buttocks.
- The mid epigastric area or upper right or left quadrants will be tender to palpation, if pancreatitis or the chylomicronemia syndrome is present. Also in people with the chylomicronemia syndrome, memory loss, dementia, and depression have been reported.
- Triglyceride levels of 4000 mg/dL or higher, or >45.2 mmol/L may cause a condition known as lipemia retinalis, in which eye examination reveals retinal blood vessels (and occasionally the retina) that have a pale pink, milky appearance.
- Adults with dysbetalipoproteinemia (type III) - a rare lipid disorder with high levels of blood triglycerides (greater than 400 mg/dL or even 1000 mg/dL) and cholesterol - may have palmar xanthomas (yellowish creases of the palms). This type of xanthoma is considered characteristic of this disorder. Tuberous or tuberoeruptive xanthomas, which also may occur in other hyperlipidemias, may arise on the elbows, knees, or buttocks.
It should be noted that fairly common on the eyelids, xanthomas - yellow, soft and slightly raised non-contagious bumps made of cholesterol deposits - are also a sign of elevated cholesterol levels.
Health Risks Marked by Elevated Triglycerides
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Increased Risk of Heart Attack | | Increased Risk of Ischemic Stroke | | Increased Risk of Fatty Liver and Pancreatitis |
High Triglycerides May Cause Weight Gain
Researchers from Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri have found that high triglycerides block leptin - a hormone secreted by our fat cells - from getting into the brain by impairing its transportation system (Diabetes, 2004: May).
As a result, leptin cannot do its work in turning off feeding and burning calories.
In other words, high triglycerides make the brain "think" the body is starving so we keep eating and... gaining weight. This is probably one of the reasons why so many people are becoming obese.
By lowering triglycerides then, we could help the body's own leptin to work better so we could get skinnier avoiding heart problems, cancer and diabetes - common chronic diseases linked to obesity.
The Critical Role of Blood Sugar
With no any doubt, the most common reason for having elevated blood triglycerides is
One reason for body cells to fail to take up glucose (blood sugar) properly is
- either a lack of insulin (common in diabetes 1, called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes) or
- insulin resistance (common in diabetes 2, often referred to as maturity-onset or non-insulin-dependent diabetes), or insulin resistance syndrome, called pre-diabetes syndrome, or
- all the above.
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Insulin is the hormone produced by the pancreas, which helps cells take up glucose from the blood to use as fuel (energy). If you lack insulin, or if your cells are resistant to insulin, they cannot take up glucose, and so they turn to fatty acids (fats/lipids) for fuel. They get these fatty acids from... triglycerides put by the liver into circulation.
The percentage of Americans with insulin resistance, or pre-diabetes syndrome is closer to 3 per cent of U.S. population. However, a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services multiplies the number of people in the U.S. who are pre-diabetic. The 2004 HHS report puts the new figure at 41 million (that's the population of California and New Jersey combined!).
In pre-diabetes syndrome, a person loses his ability to manage insulin effectively. If not controlled properly, the syndrome can lead to:
- heart disease
- non-alcoholic fatty liver
- cancer (colon or ovarian).
You might have pre-diabetes syndrome if you experience such symptoms as:
- increased weight
- high blood pressure
- high blood cholesterol.
High blood triglycerides levels are a common symptom of diabetes or pre-diabetes. Furthermore, you will be considered pre-diabetic if
- your fasting blood sugar level is between 110 mg/dl and 125 mg/dl (diabetes is formally diagnosed at 126 mg/dl).
Some clinics use a fasting blood sugar of 90 mg/dl or higher as a biomarker of coronary heart disease risk. (A fasting blood sugar level test is the simplest and least expensive).
The Blood Test for Triglycerides
Like cholesterol, increases in triglyceride levels can be detected by plasma (blood) measurements. In most cases, triglycerides are measured because they are used to calculate the serum (blood) LDL-"bad" cholesterol levels - which determines the need to treat people who have high total cholesterol.
According to the Friedewald equation, LDL cholesterol equals total cholesterol minus HDL-"good" cholesterol minus one-fifth of triglyceride level - where all concentrations are given in mg/dL.
This equation, however, is generally unreliable and should not be used when blood triglycerides are elevated (over 400 mg/dL, or 4.5 mmol/L).
Since risk of heart disease is commonly based on cholesterol levels - not triglycerides! - usually, you get tested for triglycerides only:
- during a regular routine medical exam (typically, every five years) or
- if you are being treated for high triglycerides (to see if treatment is working).
However, it is very important to have your triglycerides measured, if you are a diabetic. Diabetes can increase triglycerides significantly, especially when your blood sugar is out of control.
Most healthy people over 40 should get their triglycerides tested at least once a year. However, if your triglycerides are elevated, recheck them every three (3) months until they reach the desirable level.
Baseline Fasting Triglyceride Measurement
The test for triglycerides - using a blood sample drawn from a vein or a fingertip - should be done after an overnight fasting when no extra triglycerides from a recent meal are present (when triglycerides are being sent from the gut to body's fat tissue for storage).
In practice, however, that way of obtaining a true baseline triglyceride measurement is often given no more than lip service.
As opposed to circulating HDL and LDL-cholesterol, triglyceride blood concentrations change significantly with food intake.
Whenever you eat a meal that contains fat, your triglyceride levels rise. The degree of the increase depends on the baseline level.
For example, if your triglyceride level is about 50 mg/dL, after eating a classic fast-food "meal" of a hamburger, French fries, and milkshake, your triglycerides may increase by 15 percent to 20 percent. In other words, the triglyceride level may rise to 70 mg/dL, 80 mg/dL, or perhaps 90 mg/dL - but still will remain within the optimal range (below 100 mg/dL).
If your baseline triglyceride level is greater than 200 mg/dL, that high-fat junk "meal" could catapult your triglycerides to 300 mg/dL, 400 mg/dL, or even 500 mg/dL, and this elevation may be prolonged for several hours beyond the normal eight-hour clearance period.
Therefore, if you have not been fasting when the blood sample was drawn, your physicians may dismiss your elevated triglycerides reading as… insignificant.
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After a weekend of beer and pizza, Monday morning bloodwork readings tend to be higher than on the other days; therefore, take your weekend activities into account when having your test for blood triglycerides done.
For 12 to 14 hours before the test, only water is permitted. In other words, NOTHING except water is allowed from bedtime until you get your bloodwork done next morning when a lab opens. In addition, alcohol should not be consumed for the 24 hours just before the test.
In addition, you are not supposed to take any vitamin supplements 24 hours prior to your fasting blood work. If you are currently on antihistamines, antibiotics or cortisone treatment only, you need to call the lab or your doctor for more information on how to proceed.
Anything taken in, other than water, during that time can elevate the triglycerides as they change dramatically in response to meals, increasing as much as 5 to 10 times higher than fasting levels just a few hours after eating.
However, even fasting levels may vary considerably day to day. Therefore modest changes in fasting triglycerides measured on different days are not considered to be abnormal.
Stay Alert and Ask Questions
Nothing, except water, is allowed from bedtime until you get your triglyceride bloodwork done next morning when a lab opens. |
By applying these guidelines, you will be able to take control of your health care, just as we all should do.
Unfortunately, your doctor may have you take the blood test without informing you of all factors that might affect the results.
You never know when even a “highly regarded” doctor might be rushed or inexperienced, or simply overly comfortable with a procedure, then end up taking a short cut at your expense, recommending a drug or an uncomfortable, invasive procedure based solely on a suspect or false test result.
The lesson: Always ask your doctor for specifics regarding factors that can create false positive or false negative test results.
As far as a blood test determining triglyceride levels is concerned, for 12 to 14 hours before the test, only water is permitted.
Overnight fasting is essential for an accurate measurement of blood triglycerides!
In addition, alcohol should not be consumed for the 24 hours just before the test.
You are also not supposed to take any vitamin supplements 24 hours prior to your fasting blood work. If you are currently on antihistamines, antibiotics or cortisone treatment only, you need to call the lab or your doctor for more information on how to proceed.
Anything taken in, other than water, during that time can elevate the blood triglycerides as they change dramatically in response to meals. Without the proper fasting, they can easily be high enough to prompt your doctor to prescribe drugs.
However, even fasting levels may vary considerably day to day. Therefore modest changes in fasting triglycerides measured on different days are not considered to be abnormal.
Variability in Triglyceride Measurements
Due to a lack of standardized measurement, however, variability in triglyceride measurements may occur.
Daily concentrations of blood triglycerides vary more than the concentrations of most other metabolites and can be affected especially by:
- previous alcohol (ethanol) consumption
- dehydration, and
- other factors, such as some drugs and ascorbic acid/vitamin C (they can decrease triglyceride measurements).
Another factor that affects triglyceride measurement is postural change; the level can vary by as much as 15 percent, depending on whether your were standing or supine when the blood was drawn, because of associated shifts in plasma volume.
Yet another factor is laboratory variability, which can range between 5 percent and 10 percent on a daily basis.
Finally, intraindividual variability can be another 5 percent to 10 percent.
Those variations, however, will not matter as much in those who have an optimal baseline triglyceride value as they will in people who have an elevated value, in whom the variability will tend to be much more dramatic.
It should also be noted that test for blood (serum) triglycerides should not be performed on specimens collected between 24 hours and 8 weeks after myocardial infarction (heart attack), as levels will be lower than usual.
As a rule, variability in triglycerides measurement can be decreased if you are instructed to
- fast overnight for at least twelve (12) hours
- abstain from alcohol for two (2) days, and
- consume two cups (473 mL) of water one (1) hour before the collection of blood.
In particular, the importance of the two-day abstinence from alcohol is based on significant alterations in the plasma fatty acid pattern that persist twenty-four (24) hours after the consumption of alcohol and elevations in triaglycerides observed as late as nine (9) hours after the consumption of alcohol with dinner. (J Chromatogr 1992;579:13–24; Alcohol 1998;33:403–10).
What you should do then?
First, before having blood drawn for a triglyceride check, fast - preferably overnight - several hours. Fasting is essential for triglycerides (it is not necessary to measure cholesterol though).
Second, have the blood test repeated to be sure your measurement is accurate.
Third, tell your physician to also measure LDL and HDL cholesterol. A triglyceride measurement should be accompanied by a complete lipoprotein cholesterol determination.
Fasting Triglycerides: Interpretation of Lab Values
High triglycerides are usually accompanied by high total cholesterol. Although risk of heart disease is based on cholesterol levels, the type of drug treatment used to lower cholesterol may differ, depending on whether triglycerides are "high" or "normal".
When triglycerides are "very high" (greater than 500 mg/dL, or 5.64 mmol/L), there is a risk of developing pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas). Treatment to lower triglycerides should be started as soon as possible.
Fasting triglycerides, as a marker for triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, provide valuable information about the atherogenic potential of the lipoprotein profile, particularly when considered in context of HDL levels.
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If you have coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus (type 2, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes), or multiple risk factors, your triglyceride goal should be less than 100 mg/dL (but NOT lower than 70 mg/dL).
It has been shown that "atherogenic hyperlipidemia" starts at the triglyceride level 150 mg/dL (1.7 mmol/L) initiating degenerative changes in the cardiovascular system, and the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) can be significantly reduced by more aggressively treating elevated blood triglyceride levels.
However, there is still no consensus regarding the value necessitating initiation of triglyceride treatment. According to many physicians the need for implementation of proper dietary habits begins at the triglyceride level over 200 mg/dL (2.3 mmol/L) and pharmacological (drug) treatment should be started at the triglyceride level over 300 mg/dL (3.4 mmol/L).
The Triglycerides/HDL Ratio: Heart Disease Predictor
It is believed that the triglycerides/HDL-“good” cholesterol ratio is one of the most potent predictors of heart disease as HDL is closely related to triglycerides. A Harvard-lead study author reported:
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"High triglycerides alone increased the risk of heart attack nearly three-fold. And people with the highest ratio of triglycerides to HDL -- the "good" cholesterol -- had 16 times the risk of heart attack as those with the lowest ratio of triglycerides to HDL in the study of 340 heart attack patients and 340 of their healthy, same age counterparts.
The ratio of triglycerides to HDL was the strongest predictor of a heart attack, even more accurate than the LDL/HDL ratio (Circulation 1997;96:2520-2525)."
It appears common for people with high triglycerides to have low HDL’s, and these same people also tend to have high levels of clotting factors in their bloodstream, which is unhealthy in protecting against heart disease.
In adults, the triglyceride/HDL ratio should be below 2 (just divide your triglycerides level by your HDL level). Or more precisely, the triglyceride/HDL ratio:
- 2 or less is considered ideal
- 4 – high
- 6 - much too high.
Generally speaking, the higher the ratio, the the lower your risk of a heart attack.
And, since HDL (high density lipoprotein) is protective against heart disease, the lower the ratio, the better which means the lower your risk of a heart attack.
In other words, the lower your triglycerides, or the higher your HDL-“good” cholesterol, the smaller this ratio becomes.
However, association between triglycerides and HDL cholesterol is the most difficult to sort out. It turns out that whenever triglycerides are increased, HDL cholesterol decreases.
So is the increased risk seen with high triglycerides due to the triglycerides themselves, or to the associated reduction in HDL-“good” cholesterol and increase in LDL-“bad” cholesterol. So far, nobody can say for sure.
Extremely Low Triglycerides Levels
There are several known causes of low triglycerides (<50 mg/dL) However, many causes have yet to be discovered.
Extremely low triglycerides levels (less than 10 mg/dL) can indicate the following conditions:
- abetalipoproteinemia - a disorder of lipid metabolism characterized by fat malabsorption, acanthocytosis, retinopathy, and progressive neurologic disease
- hypobetalipoproteinemia - an inherited condition in which blood lipids are present at less than the expected levels regardless of how much fat is eaten; subjects may develop fatty liver
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - emphysema or chronic bronchitis
- malabsorption syndrome (inadequate absorption of nutrients in the intestinal tract) leading to malnutrition
- malnutrition (inadequate intake or inadequate digestion of nutrients)
- hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) - a condition caused by the effects of too much thyroid hormone in tissues of the body, or
- diet too low in fat,
Unfavourably low blood triglyceride levels may also be caused by:
- too alkaline pH of glycerol (due to lack of infusion of chloride via phosphorylation in stomach; when the cellular tissue are too alkaline, the fatty acids tend to disintegrate and give off glycerol) and
- fatty acid congestion in the liver.
In this case, a full-spectrum nutritional supplementation providing adequte amounts of the B vitamins, lipotropic factors, hydrochloric acid (HCL) and digestive enzymes can be of great help here.
Anyway, your health care provider should always check for these if too high or too low triglycerides are discovered.
Currently, as a rule of thumb, fasting blood triglyceride readings should be as follows:
- greater than 55 mg/dL in women and
- greater than 45 mg/dL in men.
Standard Blood Lipid Profile Test
A group of tests, called a blood lipid profile, is often recommended as a medical routine screening to evaluate risk of heart disease in healthy adults.
The standard ("complete") fasting blood lipid profile includes:
- total cholesterol
- HDL-cholesterol (often called good cholesterol)
- LDL-cholesterol (often called bad cholesterol)
- triglycerides, and, sometimes
- calculated HDL/Cholesterol ratio, and/or
- a risk score based on lipid profile results, age, sex, and other risk factors.
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Medical Treatments for High Triglycerides
Roughly half of people with hyperlipidemia - 42 million - is affected by hypertriglyceridemia – increased triglyceride levels. |
As a result of that disagreement, triglycerides don’t get as much attention from the medical community as cholesterol, but they are certainly important to overall health. Even if cholesterol levels are... normal, triglycerides can contribute to the clogging of the arteries in the heart.
In the United States alone, there are about 85 million office visits a year by people with elevated levels of cholesterol and/or triglycerides – a condition called hyperlipidemia.
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The Nutritional Control of High Triglycerides
Elevated plasma triglycerides are in your control and can be brought down naturally. |
If you're interested in avoiding or ending personal experience with this disorder, we have good news for you.
The main and foremost goal of the nutritional approach to elevated blood triglycerides is to improve and/or restore the body's metabolism of
- lipids (fats) and
- carbohydrates, especially refined sugar, processed grains and starches.
The body chemistry can be boosted only by optimum nutrition, that is by helping the cells to
- receive more vital nutrients - nourishment needed for their optimal function (and survival)
- stabilize the body's insulin levels the blood sugar-regulating hormone, according to many studies, directly associated with HDL-"good" cholesterol and blood triglyceride levels, and
- undergo the ongoing process of detoxification - an essential factor in preventing and fighting all health problems.
Without improving the lipid metabolism, prescription drugs are a futile exercise, although they can be life saving at times. |
Fortunately, there are people, including a growing number of doctors, who admit that there are successful methods to reduce elevated levels of blood lipids (fats), other than temporary medical intervention.
There are also people - with or without high triglycerides - who are willing to trade their lifestyle habits for healthy arteries and a healthy old age; people who are making serious efforts to give their heart and cardiovascular system a longer, healthier life through optimum nutrition.
Triglyceride Reduction Formula: All-Natural Blood Lipid Modulator
There have been medical studies on the beneficial effect of nutritional supplementation on high blood triglyceride levels. |
Nutritional factors - naturally occurring substances, not drugs whose substances are foreign to the body - are able to boost the body chemistry by
- correcting possible deficiencies and/or imbalances
- improving metabolism of lipids (fats) and carbohydrates (sugars, starches, processed grains), and
- providing optimum conditions for the proper functioning of the body's own intrinsic ability to heal itself
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Amount Per Serving |
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| 3. Vitamin C (as 90% Ascorbic Acid and 10% Ascorbyl Palmitate) | 250 mg |
| 4. Vitamin D-3 (Cholecalciferol) | 200 IU |
| 5. Vitamin E (85% D-Alpha Tocopheryl Succinate and 15% Mixed Tocopherols, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma) | 80 IU |
| 6. Vitamin B1 (Thiamine Hydrochloride) | 14 mg |
| 7. Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) | 7.5 mg |
| 8. Niacin (Vitamin B3) | 15 mg |
| 9. Niacinamide | 2 mg |
| 10. Vitamin B6 (75% Pyridoxine HCl, 25% Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate) | 9 mg |
| 11. Folic Acid | 650 mcg |
| 12. Vitamin B12 (Methylcobalamin) | 250 mcg |
| 13. Biotin | 500 mcg |
| 14. Pantothenic Acid (Calcium Pantothenate) | 50 mg |
| 15. Calcium (HVP* Chelate) | 26 mg |
| 16. Iodine (Potassium Iodide) | 60 mcg |
| 17. Magnesium (HVP* Chelate) | 16.25 mg |
| 18. Zinc (Monomethionine) | 4 mg |
| 19. Selenium (Methylselenocysteine) | 30 mcg |
| 20. Manganese (Gluconate) | 2.5 mg |
| 21. Chromium (Chromium Polynicotinate) | 300 mcg |
| 22. Potassium (Chloride) | 13 mg |
| 23. L-Cysteine Hydrochloride | 55 mg |
| 24. DL-Methionine | 40 mg |
| 25. Choline | 35 mg |
| 26. Lemon Bioflavonoids | 25 mg |
| 27. N-Acetyl-Cysteine | 25 mg |
| 28. Inositol | 20 mg |
| 29. Betaine (Trimethylglycine) | 20 mg |
| 30. Pantethine (as Coenzyme A precursor) | 12.5 mg |
| 31. Sytrinol®** (Nobiletin and Tangeritin Compund) | 12.5 mg |
| 32. Quercetin | 12.5 mg |
| 33. Adrenal Substance | 7.5 mg |
| 34. Pancreas Substance | 7.5 mg |
| 35. Pancreatin 8x | 7 mg |
| 36. L-Glutamic Acid HCl | 4.5 mg |
| 37. Ox Bile | 4.5 mg |
| 38. RNA (Ribonucleic Acid | 4.5 mg |
| 39. Hypothylamus Substance | 3.75 mg |
| 40. Liver Substance | 3.75 mg |
| 41. Pituitary (Anterior) Substance | 3.75 mg |
| 42. Bromelain (3,000 MCU) | 2.5 mg |
| 43. Vanadium (Vanadyl Sulfate) | 2.5 mg |
| 44. Boron (Citrate) | 200 mcg |
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Gentle Exercise to Lower Triglycerides
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Flexibility Exercise to Lower Triglycerides
It is our clinical experience that also flexibility (anaerobic) exercise, such as stretching - an important link between our sedentary life and active life - has a lowering effect on blood triglyceride levels; for full health benefits, it can be combined with Y-DAN (aerobic) exercise.
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Are You Stressed, Depressed?
Prolonged stress is one of the main causes of elevated blood triglycerides.
A new study has found the evidence that psychological, mental stress causes triglycerides to stay in the bloodstream longer contributing to cardiovascular health problems (Psychophysiology, 2002: 39; 80-85).
The stress factor, however, has been repeatedly underestimated with regards to elevated blood lipids (fats).
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Test and Re-test Triglycerides from Home
Don't have your better lipid health prompted just by panic! |
The only way you know you might have a problem that needs to be attended to is to get the blood test. As a matter of fact, triglyceride count test is the test everybody gotta have at least once a year.
But there's even more to it. You should absolutely know your triglyceride level, if you have symptoms of the metabolic syndrome X, in other words, if you
- are overweight
- eat too many refined or simple carbohydrates (white bread, pasta, cakes, etc.),
- have a history of heart disease or high blood pressure, or
- have a genetic predisposition to cardiovascular health problems.
Home Collected Triglycerides Test is a simple, FDA-approved, clinical laboratory analysis that measures the amount of the following lipids in your blood:
- triglycerides
- total cholesterol
- HDL-"good" cholesterol, and
- calculated LDL-"bad" cholesterol.
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"This is Truly Amazing!"
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Tuesday, September 17, 2002
This is to let you know what has happened in my husband's health since we came across your website and ordered the Formula in August.
Last April, he had a blood workup and the results were: cholesterol - 193, triglyceride - 611, HDL - 31, LDL - 171. Then, on August 24, he had another test results: cholesterol - 194, triglyceride - 720, HDL - 27, LDL 181.
We searched the web for a high triglyceride diet and came across your website, and decided to try it. Ordered the Formula immediately.
Before he was on a diet for cholesterol taking a one-a-day vitamin, extra Vit E 1000 IU's, also a B complex, Guggulipid 2 a day, golden flax seed. When we received your Formula, he stopped everything except the guggulipid.
Yesterday, September 16, after one month on Triglyceride Reduction Formula, the results were: cholesterol - 192, triglyceride - 211, HDL - 32, and LDL - 118.
This is truly amazing. We will definitely stay with your diet and the Formula.
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~ Helen G.,
Anita, Iowa, United States
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* The testimonial above has been presented as a true story. However, it has not been reviewed by Full of Health and is the opinion of the listed individual.
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An Opportunity
The nutritional approach is for you - if
- you are tempted to take drugs (statins, etc.) to reduce your high triglycerides (and/or cholesterol), but worried about the side effects;
- you have been taking prescription medication/s with little or no success;
- you have tried to lower your triglycerides through the diet alone - but with disappointing results.
At Full of Health, we are sure that this simple method - so simple that, at first, its simplicity makes you difficult to believe - will do as much for you as it has done for our clients and customers.
If other people have benefited from the nutritional method, you, or someone you know or hold dear, can benefit as well.
Thank-You Notes
Our visitors write to us:
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Wednesday, February 5, 2003
I just sat down to refresh my memory a little on triglycerides and up came your webpage.
I am an RN and I find myself very impressed with your exceptional ability of explaining a difficult topic in a manner that could be understood by anyone.
A great health teaching tool, you are to be congratulated.
Regards,
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Jim A., Midland, Ontario
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Reduce Triglycerides Naturally: Recommended Products
TGs Formula: Quality and Purity Assurance
Triglyceride Reduction Formula.
A Vitamin-Mineral Supplement to Support Healthy Blood Lipid Levels
Quality Ingredients, Proper Dosages,
No Cost-Cutting Shortcuts
Factors such as freshness and freedom of contamination of the raw materials, just to name a few, are critical variables as well.
Even experts experienced in nutritional technology cannot assess the value and quality of a product by merely reading a label.
To ensure that our consumers receive the highest quality, contaminant-free products, all our supplements must pass as many as 37 individual laboratory tests, consisting of:
- 27 assays to ensure each ingredient is present in the amount stated on the label
- 3 separate analyses to confirm the tablets are free from harmful elements, including: arsenic, lead and other heavy metals
- 4 individual examinations to confirm the absence of harmful bacteria, including E.coli, salmonella, staphylococcus and other bacteria
- 2 tests to confirm the tablets are free from yeasts or molds
- 1 assessment to confirm that the tablets dissolve rapidly in gastric fluid.
Triglyceride Reduction Formula is certified by an independent laboratory to meet the stringent testing outlined. This ensures that our clients and customers receive the highest quality, contaminant-free dietary supplement.
A How-To Guide to High Triglycerides
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We are so proud to be offering an expanded second edition of this comprehensive source of practical information, answering all questions and concerns you might have about the role triglyceride play in our health and the natural means of controlling them.
Some of the important insights on lowering triglycerides you'll learn from this book include:
- Health risks marked by high blood triglycerides
- Right (and wrong) foods to fight and prevent elevated blood triglycerides
- Effects of high carbohydrate diet on the triglycerides synthesis and metabolism
- Standard medical treatments and prescription drugs for elevated blood triglycerides
- Simple lifestyle changes you should make to optimize your blood lipid profile
- The single most important supplement you can take that should be a regular part of your diet as it will greatly reduce your blood triglycerides
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