Why can't high blood lipids be lowered?

Some people have high blood lipids and have adopted certain fitness methods but still have not achieved better results. They will be very distressed at this time. For such people, it is often a misunderstanding. They do not pay enough attention to high blood lipids and do not regard this condition as a disease or a more serious disease. Once such a misunderstanding occurs, the effect of health conditioning is often not obvious.

If you don't avoid these 8 high blood lipid misunderstandings, your blood lipids won't go down at all

Myth 1: If there is no pain, itching or symptoms, there is no disease

The biggest characteristic of the "silent killer" hyperlipidemia is that it is hidden and difficult to detect. Except for the flat xanthomas on the eyelids that are painless and itchy and are easy to see, those in other parts are relatively hidden and difficult to find.

Most people think that xanthomas only affect appearance, and if they don't hurt or itch, then there is no disease and there is no need to worry about it. But this is a dangerous signal that hyperlipidemia sends to you in the early stages!

Experts recommend: Adults over 20 years old should have a fasting lipid profile test every 5 years to detect and intervene early.

Myth 2: If the lipid test results are normal, no treatment is needed

Whether treatment is needed if the results of blood lipid test are within the normal range depends on individual conditions. For example, if the LDL-C is 135mg/dL, if the person is healthy, no treatment is needed.

However, if the examinee has suffered from myocardial infarction, undergone stent treatment, coronary artery bypass surgery, has diabetes, or has multiple risk factors at the same time, treatment is necessary to reduce LDL-C to below 100 mg/dL!

Myth 3: High blood lipids mean too much oil in the blood

High blood lipids is not as simple as “too much oil in the blood”! It is important to understand that high blood lipids are the main cause of atherosclerosis; and atherosclerosis is the main cause of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (such as coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke). Therefore, high blood lipids are a disease that can cause disability or death!

Myth 4: Lowering cholesterol can cause cancer or stroke

The idea that "lowering plasma cholesterol concentration too low increases the risk of cancer" was once popular, but the results of large-scale clinical trials have overturned this conclusion. Long-term use of drugs to enhance lipid-lowering will not increase the mortality rate of non-cardiovascular diseases (including cancer, suicide, car accidents, etc.).

Myth 5: Lowering blood lipids means lowering triglycerides

Although dyslipidemia is often manifested as high triglycerides and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), on the surface lowering triglyceride indicators seems to be the preferred lipid-lowering target. but,

The primary goal of lipid-lowering is to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), especially in high-risk patients such as those with hypertension and coronary heart disease. If LDL-C decreases by 10%, the risk of coronary heart disease will be reduced by 20%. As long as low-density cholesterol does not reach the standard, it is the primary goal of preventing and treating coronary heart disease.

The second is to lower total cholesterol. A 10% reduction in total cholesterol will reduce the risk of death from coronary heart disease by 15% and the risk of total death by 11%.

Myth 6: Eating only vegetarian food can lower blood lipids

Many patients and their families mistakenly believe that "eating vegetarian food without eating meat can lower blood lipids." Vegetarianism is indeed beneficial to improving dyslipidemia, but it is a big mistake to believe that only eating vegetarian food can lower blood lipids!

If you don't eat milk, eggs, meat, or fish, you will lack nutrients such as vitamin B1, B2, and B6, and your sugar and fat metabolism will be disrupted.

Eating meat can easily fill you up. If you don't eat meat, you will eat more rice and pasta. The excess carbohydrates will be converted into triglycerides in the body and stored.

The oil used for stir-frying vegetables is made from refined fat, so you will still consume fat. This ultimately leads to an increase in blood lipids instead of a decrease!

Experts recommend: 1 spoon of oil per meal, do not eat animal oil, and replace it with various vegetable oils.