Allen kicks his cholesterol panel in the butt!

Take a look at what Wheat Belly Blog reader Allen posted about his cholesterol testing: Just wanted to report that I had my first blood test since starting Wheat Belly back in July, 2012. I just got a note from my company doc: ”I just wanted to write as your medical consultant how impressed I was by your recent labs. You said you lost 20 pounds – congratulations. Your hemoglobin A1c was fine, not indicating pre-diabetes. And your lipid profile showed more improvement than I’ve ever seen from weight loss, exercise and diet – many find this just genetic and cannot get it down with just these measures, but your’s has really improved. Total cholesterol (in U.S. units) down from 264 to 197, LDL or bad cholesterol down from 203 to 138, HDL or good cholesterol from 21 way up to 47. Your triglycerides are normal now. This is great – glad you were so successful!” His doctor’s comment that Allen’s lipid profile “showed more improvement than I’ve ever seen from weight loss, exercise and diet” hints at the extravagant metabolic transformations that develop with elimination of all things wheat. When you eliminate wheat, 2 + 2 = 11 . . . the total is greater than the sum of the parts. Beneath the surface of his markedly improved lipid values, Allen has also: –Reduced or eliminated small LDL particles, the lipoproteins that are the REAL cause of most coronary disease. –Has markedly reduced the process of liver de novo lipogenesis, ...
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