squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
- Location
- Arkansas, and also Florida
Getting hard to trust some doctors
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Been There
Well-known Member
- Location
- Florida
I am another lucky person. I haven’t started taking pills…yet. However, I read all of the posts and I appreciate the information.
Lilac
Well-known Member
- Location
- Flyover Country
@seadoug, I hadn't heard about red yeast rice pill & I'm going to look into that.
@Lawrence00, I'm a firm beleiver in the oatmeal.
When hubby & I both was working, we ate steel-cut oatmeal every morning during the week. We also went to wine tasting & drank red wine. Our blood panels were perfect & I thought the wine was the reason & never considered the oatmeal. The reason was all the talk about the benefits of red wine, but you didn't hear anything about oatmeal.
Fast forward to retirement & then finding out my cholesteral was going up. My nurse practioner wanted to put me on statins & I said no so she prescribed Fenofibrate. I took it for a year & it made no difference & I stopped but didn't tell her. I tried French grape seed extract (red wine ingredient) for a year & it made no difference. My levels went up & she asked me about the Fenobigrate & I told her I hadn't taken it for a long time & no, I'm not taking statins.
I did some checking & read about steel-cut oatmeal being used in a study where it was eaten 5 out 7 seven days & rates were lowered. I did that for 6 months until my next blood work was due. I shocked her with my blood panel because everything was within the limits & she said my blood work looked perfect. My last tests weren't as good because I fell of the oatmeal-wagon, but I'm getting back on.
@Lawrence00, I'm a firm beleiver in the oatmeal.
When hubby & I both was working, we ate steel-cut oatmeal every morning during the week. We also went to wine tasting & drank red wine. Our blood panels were perfect & I thought the wine was the reason & never considered the oatmeal. The reason was all the talk about the benefits of red wine, but you didn't hear anything about oatmeal.
Fast forward to retirement & then finding out my cholesteral was going up. My nurse practioner wanted to put me on statins & I said no so she prescribed Fenofibrate. I took it for a year & it made no difference & I stopped but didn't tell her. I tried French grape seed extract (red wine ingredient) for a year & it made no difference. My levels went up & she asked me about the Fenobigrate & I told her I hadn't taken it for a long time & no, I'm not taking statins.
I did some checking & read about steel-cut oatmeal being used in a study where it was eaten 5 out 7 seven days & rates were lowered. I did that for 6 months until my next blood work was due. I shocked her with my blood panel because everything was within the limits & she said my blood work looked perfect. My last tests weren't as good because I fell of the oatmeal-wagon, but I'm getting back on.
Lawrence00
Senior Member
I bake some food every week and steel-cut oatmeal cooked al dente is a major ingredient. This also helps with what they call satiety, my body senses that it really had a meal. I had also read that real steel-cut oats, not the new instant variety, digests in such a way to prevent insulin spike. I am content with my daily baked goods, but I also envision another easy method for a daily dose. Someone could cook a pot once a week and put big scoops in bags or small containers frozen. Then drop into soups, sides, yogurts etc. Magic food.