SN just curious about your sensitivity to cholesterol in eggs. Some people are hyper responders but the data suggests it's not really a negative and for women of age higher cholesterol is protective, weird but true. Dietary cholesterol is just cholesterol, the same kind the liver manufacturers in the body, and why I ask. Every single cell in the body manufacturers it's own cholesterol because it's so vital to our existance and the liver produces more when there isn't enough to facilitate the body's immediate needs and dietary cholesterol regulates the livers manufacturing and delivery of cholesterol, so eat less cholesterol the liver produces more, eat more cholesterol the liver produces less.
And there's this, which is common knowledge among researchers in that field. Sometimes it's difficult for the general medical community to understand nutrition and make those adjustments, fortunately i have a Doctor who specializes in this field.
High intake of cholesterol results in less atherogenic low-density lipoprotein particles in men and women independent of response classification - PubMed
It comes from years/decades of watching my cholesterol figures in my blood work ups and my doctors opinion (more than 1 doctor in each country I've lived in).
To clarify 2 things before going any further, 1 this has been like this most of my life and I'm not yet 50 so the older women thing is out of the window & 2, it is suspected that I have a rare adult form of CF. I
had a half sister with the 'normal' CF and through my early childhood it was suspect that I also had it though I was later cleared of CF and given a whole host other conditions instead. It is known that my body can't handle meat (in particular red meat) or fish but there also issues with what I can absorb. There always have been even when I could have dairy. The allergy is a separate issue to the absorption issues.
The adult version of CF is rare. CF includes dietary absorption issues and nowadays a whole host of supplements, enzymes and more are prescribed. I am on 2 treatments for CF as it is. Both are a case that I've responded well to them, so I came from the UK to Australia already taking them.
I have learnt to manage my condition from an early age and ironically that is the reason it has remained mostly hidden. Once in my teenage years, it was very apparent that unless my calcium intake was 2 or 3 times the recommended level, I had chronic pain in my joints, not muscles. Similar with potassium (which currently my body just down right refuses to hold on to/absorb) and a few other elements/minerals (magnesium is another one) On top of all of that I now have a muscle wasting condition. That was diagnosed 15 years or so ago.
Balance in my diet has been essential over the years and after consulting several nutritionists and various doctors, it was decided that the worst thing I do would be to return to a meat eating diet, even when we set off to try to cycle around the world and curiously this is what has made it even more obvious to my UK respiratory/ severe asthma consultant that I more than likely have this rare form of CF. When my diet was about 3 - 4 times the usual intake,
and I was active enough to burn it off, provided I took just 1 multivitamin a day on top of my usual meds, I was healthier than I'd ever been and a lot of the issues went away within a few weeks. I only got sick once whilst living on the road, though there were days when my body just said no, it needed for rest. That's the 2ndary Addison's disease kicking in. Not producing cortisol my body can't respond in the normal manner to sickness or injury or even just a bad nights sleep in the same way a normal body does. On the bright side of things, i can't panic and don't tend to physically get stressed over things, I do mentally get stressed but that's not the same thing add a physical response to stress .
Back on the eggs issue. If I average 2 eggs a week, if something in my blood is meant to be high, it is always just below the low end of normal; if it is meant to be low, I'm always just over the high end of the normal range. Drop to not having any eggs in the 10 days before blood tests (roughly 10 days, again established through constant testing over the years, plus new doctors with none of my medical history availed to them other than what I know and remember having to start again from scratch to diagnose conditions to allow them to refer me to specialists) and my figures for cholesterol at least, will adjust themselves to just within the normal range.
Heart disease is a real risk (of what I know if my family) and my figure is not the classic feminine fat around the hips figure but more masculine, fat around the waist, so I need to be careful with the cholesterol figures. Cut eggs out entirely and my figures actually return to happily within the normal range for cholesterol and are a better ratio than averaging 2 eggs a week. It all comes down to what I can and can't absorb and from a balanced 2,000 calorie a day diet, my body can't absorb enough of what it needs. Increase to 6-7,000 calories a day and it can absorb what it needs. Again that is classic CF. (Balanced comes from my nutritionists and doctors point of view. )
Nutrition and balance is something I've had to study carefully over the years (in my diet for my body) and also to ensure that where it can be, the mineral etc is accessible in an easily absorbed form.
One complication now is that my husband has been diagnosed with hemochromatosis, so we're now trying to learn to balance my high iron needs with his much lower needs. At the moment, he's still having to give blood regularly to keep his ferretin levels down in double figures (but at least they are not the 3,300 units they were when he was diagnosed!) Ironically because the surgeon was so good during his last op (3 weeks ago) and he didn't lose any blood during the op, I actually have to take him to get a unit removed today. Lol.
