I've written extensively on cholesterol and I'd be worried if mine dipped to 120s territory too Wayne. I guess you could look at it hoping that in fact it's just your body needing less like Dee mentioned, everybody's different BUT I'm wondering if you aren't consuming some type of food or supplement that contains a naturally occurring statin like some sort of yeast product. Yeasts sometimes contain statins which inhibit the natural production of cholesterol in the body[One reason why statin drugs are effective-effectively bad for you]. We get our Lipitors and Crestors as the pharmaceutical descendents of yeast products and there are a lot of ''health'' foods and supplements that contain yeasts of different kinds and possibly statins. Also, although it can be a great supplemental mineral, an excessive amount of the trace mineral Vanadium might inhibit cholesterol production too. A symptom of vanadium deficiency is high blood cholesterol but the excess is low total body cholesterol. I just wanted to chime in just in case you take large amounts of yeast products or vanadium. The current newsletter I've been circulating for the past few months has compiled everything I've written on the subject and I've personally concluded after extensive research that for numbers dipping down to even 180 NATURALLY for those who are essentially healthy people that it's probably okay and that there's sense to the view that some people may need less in their blood or just be USING cholesterol more efficiently, dispensing it to cells and sending it back to the liver for recycling so well that the blood level seems slightly low, etc. but that numbers going down to BELOW 160 probably aren't healthy for anyone and there's probably a good reason they're down that far. I think you said you're eating less red meat? and perhaps that's more your natural food source and that your body is built to rely more on dietary cholesterol than other peoples might be. Also, have you ever done a liver/gallbladder flush? I know these can do wonders for truly ''high'' cholesterol[when you might actually have it] and triglycerides but perhaps it might bring a low cholesterol UP since it improves liver function and the liver metabolizes it to send back to the blood for it's necessary use in all of your cells. If anybody would like a copy of my digest on cholesterol, they can subscribe to my free newsletter by writing [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) with ''Free Sub scription'' in the subject line and I'd be happy to add them to the list and send out a copy. It goes into detail on why you should keep your cholesterol UP and what all statin drugs can do to damage you and all the different doctors that have been fighting the twisted but lucrative propaganda on the subject. We've shared a lot of our info sources on this list to each other like William Douglass and Mary Enig and there certainly doesn't seem to be a shortage of learned people concerned with low cholesterol and I'm 100% with them thinking it's a very valid concern. Good luck with it Wayne. Sorry it took me so long to comment on this too, I just got a notice of a nearly full mail box this afternoon so I'm really behind reading the list.
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