TOTAL cholesterol levels don't indicate much, including low total
cholesterol. It is possible to go too low on the individual lipids that make
up total cholesterol (HDLs and LDLs), as well as triglycerides. Those are
the figures you should be looking at, along with C-reactive protein, etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paula H.
> ... The
> cardiologist was going on and on about how it is impossible to have TC
> that
> is too low and that there are absolutely no studies showing that very
> low TC
> is harmful.  That is when I spoke up and mentioned that low TC was
> associated with cancer, liver disease, mental illness.
> 
> He asked me for my documentation.  I would like to bring some with me
> at her
> next visit.  My web searches have not been very successful.  I do have
> the
> wonderful graph from Protein Power showing Causes From All Deaths vs
> Blood
> Cholesterol.
> 
> Does anyone have anything they can share with me on this so that I can
> share
> it with Mr. Snooty Cardiologist?
> 
> You can e-mail me privately if you would like at paula@tempest-
> terriers.com
> 
> I will certainly keep eating paleo in order to avoid this form of
> "medicine"
> in my future!
> 
> Paula H.