Triglyceride and Total Cholesterol. The Key to Ending Diabetes.

Like a bacon wrapped scallop, lipoproteins are stores of fat used for a variety of applications in the body. These lipoproteins come in all different sizes, shapes, and densities. Chronic and constant high blood fat (triglyceride) and total cholesterol levels from Western diets accelerrate the onset of late life or type 2 diabetes (a/k/a diabetes mellitus). Ultra processed foods such as oil, ground meats, animal milk, eggs, flour, and sugar are easily absorbed into the blood. Fat and meat, and in a more indirect way, sugar synthesized in the liver, will spike your total cholesterol and triglyceride blood levels. As your body starts to gunk up, rising A1c levels will cause inflammation, sacropenia (muscle loss), osteopenia (bone loss), loss of eyesight and hearing, and eventually dementia. The coating or film that starts to cover your blood pathways, organs, and cells accumulate for years and the remaining cellular remnants and oxidation products gum up and block your blood pathways (super highways). This sludge prevents insulin from signaling cells to burn energy and use up the excess fats and sugars in your blood.

The constant continued excess intake of processed meats, heavy spent fats and refined sugars keeps your blood thick, syrupy and milky and as times goes by, gunk starts to settle on your blood pathways, organs, and muscles. Bones are mined by your body to constantly battle a highly acidic internal environment, becoming hollow and brittle. When your A1c levels creep up, these end products start to harden or rot, and your immune system starts attacking the areas where this gunk gets lodged, and as more of your red blood cells get coated, the dried remains turn into sandpaper like spiked balls that scrape and puncture as they travel through your blood vessels This irritation and inflammation is called inflam-aging or garb-aging. The worst partis the onset of type 3 diabetes, or what we call Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s which will start to erode your memory, cognition and motor skills.

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Late life type 2 diabetics usually have a combination of persistently high blood fat (triglyceride) (TG) levels and increased total blood cholesterol (TC) levels. If you want to get better and live longer, you need to control persistently high triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC) levels. Home tests can measure triglyceride and total cholesterol levels. By monitoring your triglyceride and total cholesterol levels, you can determine if you are in the danger zone.

The total cholesterol (TC) and triglyceride (TG) test strip ($1.50 per test excluding the cost of the device) are affordable enough to test more frequently (maybe a couple times a week). The chart below summarizes all of the relevant tests and markers that are important for late life Diabetics, all of which can be tested at home using over the counter testing machines:

Leave the testing for HDL, LDL and VLDL to your doctor. The subtelties measured by HDL, LDL and VLDL are mostly genetic in cause and uncontrollable.