Cholesterol – New Information to Me

Chris Masterjohn posted this article on Facebook yesterday: High LDL on Paleo Revisited: Low Carb & the Thyroid. While thyroid is not a known factor in my family’s history, it still caught my attention because it may affect a loved one with troublesome cholesterol numbers.

Granted, I will need to read the article about five times and do some research to fully understand it, but the crux is that if you are eating really clean and low carb, and your LDL is out of whack, then your thyroid could be causing it. The article goes on to discuss how often the thyroid component isn’t even investigated in relation to cholesterol problems.

This really makes me wonder how vigilant we need to be about our health diagnoses and how often we have to double check our doctors. That said, I do know some amazing docs, but it seems that there just aren’t enough of them.