purposefirst wrote:I noticed on the other recent Lipoprotein(a) thread that pamojja listed peronal Lp(a) readings over a period of several years. S/he certainly improved, but apparently VERY gradually. How long might it take optimally to improve?
Although not feeling myself an exception in having difficulties bringing my Lp(a) down. For the only reason of having no value of Lp(a) before starting supplementing - whether high dose vitamin C/lysine helped - I only can speculate now. Maybe it has even been as high as yours.
Despite the lack of the before-data, the initial years of supplementing seemed even to increase Lp(a). That's why I added every other known possible therapeutics:
Low-carbohydrate high fat diet
Flaxseed and almonds
High dose fish oil
Soy proteins
Alcohol
Coenzyme Q10
L-carnitine
Gingko biloba
Niacin
Homocysteine reduction with B2, B6, B9, B12, Choline, TMG, SAMe
N-acetylcysteine
DHEA
Thyroid hormone
Only with the soaring of my serum DHEAs after doubling it's intake and most optimal thyroid values did I see the improvement you talk about.
purposefirst wrote:How long might it take optimally to improve?
The favorite therapeutic of nutritionally oriented cardiologist Dr. Davis is high dose fish oil (total EPA/DHA content of 6 gram per day), which works in his clinical experience after 2-3 years of use, and after which he witnessed drops down in 60% of users. Sadly, I was not one of them, as well as not one of the 100% of Pauling Therapy users whose Lp(a) dropped to zero, as Oven recently grossly exaggerated.
Options not seriously tried:
Estrogen for females
Testosterone for men (like me)
Weight loss (with BMI of 20, not much to loose..)
Aspirin (get bloody stools even with a baby aspirin)
Diabetes treatment (metformin gives me terrible nausea)
Fibrates