What are triglycerides?

Triglycerides are, for simplification, what we call "fat". When you grab a handful of tummy, love handles or some other fat storage, you are grabbing triglycerides?

Triglycerites transport the fat in the blood from one place to another. They are also the storage form of fat.

Tryglicerides are derived primarily from the fats you eat or made by your body from excess calories. A high triglyserides level often accompanies high total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels and a low HDL level.

There are various causes of high triglycerides, but the main cause is due to a high fat diet. As such, you can lower your triglyserides thru diet eventhough that sometimes may not be sufficient enough. To find out more on a diet to lower triglycerides, click here.

High triglycerides are a risk factor to be considered because they are consistently associated with high LDL cholesterol (bad) and low HDL (good). The mechanism of this association is not fully understood, but high triglyserides are considered a heart attack risk factor. A goal number for tryglicerides is less than 125 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter).

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If you use any of the methods I recommend in this website for lowering cholesterol, you'll notice that after you get your second blood lipid profile at the end of 4 weeks (after using cholesterol lowering supplements for example), you'll have high triglycerides levels, higher than the first test. Don't worry about it, because it is expected. This higher level of triglycerites is sometimes due to weight loss, which is expected when you start lowering cholesterol levels.

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