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And my cholesterol went down just a skosh. Cholesterol: 349 down to 214 LDL: 226 down to 144 Triglicerides: 327 down to 136 (!!) I'm not on medication of any form and I didn't change my diet. I just stopped drinking alcohol (formerly drank a lot). Pretty incredible to see these numbers. The doctor basically said I need to shut alcohol down, and I did. And it's been a great experience thus far. _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | ||
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Sheesh! Really no diet changes? Was it drinking bacon grease you gave up? | |||
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Did you lose weight also? | |||
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So, how does that work? Does dropping the alcohol allow your liver to do the things it should instead of breaking down the alcohol?? | |||
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Yes, CNE, Also lost 10 pounds. I'm now 6' 2" 190lbs. The doctor said my triglicerides should drop with no alcohol, and they plummeted. Everything else dropped too. I'm not sure how this all works, though, Mark. What you said makes sense though. _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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Congrats of the results of a much healthier life style. | |||
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I'm curious What was the form of alcohol? Beer, wine, whisky? ________,_____________________________ Guns don't kill people - Alec Baldwin kills people. He's never been a straight shooter. | |||
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Very impressive! I'm currently in the thick of a 3 month planned dry out. Dry till July! Hoping to get rid of some pesky abdominal fat and pack on some summer muscle. It's amazing what even a couple nights a month can do. I think it's good to periodically assess the impact alcohol may be having on ones health. Sounds like you're doing great. Keep it up. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
Makes sense if you were a heavy drinker. Processing a lot of alcohol taxes just about all of your internal organs making them less efficient at working on the bad things we tend to eat. Plus there are a lot of calories with all alcohol types, and they are what is considered empty calories. That is, they add to your calorie count, but give little benefit like extra energy. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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Light beer and light beer only. _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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Your liver is thanking you  Nice work. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Indeed! The liver panels all came back perfect too. Although they weren't that high to begin with (but they were above normal). _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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CONGRATULAIIONS!  Q | |||
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Makes me wish I drank, so I could quit.  | |||
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My current bout with A-fib has me quitting also, easy choice to keep my health!! _________________________________________________ "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." --- G.K. Chesterton | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
About 2 years ago I just lost the desire to drink - aside from a glass of wine with an appropriate meal or a scotch with a visiting friend, I don't drink anymore. I could stand to lose 15 lbs but even so, my Cholesterol and all other blood work is great. | |||
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Everything in moderation. I avoid meds more than I avoid alcohol. I rarely even take a aspirin. I get through all the little aches a pains of being over 60 without reaching for a pill. I hydrate and then hydrate more. Over a gallon of water a day. I drink on weekends only and never during the week. It's not a concerted effort it's just the way it is. I feel great and most people guess me to be 10 years younger than I am. Most people don't appreciate the benefits of drinking a good amount of water on a daily basis over a period of time. I always tell people that water lets me know I'm not a alcoholic. If I find myself without a bottle of water within reach I look for a solution. No alcohol no problem. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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| No Compromise |
I gave up alcohol once. It was the worst two hours of my life!  Seriously, congrats on your stats. You have inspired me to take a look at doing the same. H&K-Guy | |||
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Congratulations!!! I went to nutritionist a few years back...very informative. What I leanred was --- I thought triglycerides came from fat but they come form eating too many carbs and calories. If you dont burn off the carbs when they are in your bloodstream (about an hour after you eat) your liver turns them into triglycerides (some is stored in your liver as glycogen but once that is full...) that are depoisited into fat cells but also contributes to high levels that circulate in the blood potentially causing longer term problems like atherosclerosis and heart disease.
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