Your blood cholesterol level is lower than mine! This latest test has you at 121 and my most recent test had me at 126 - not that we're counting. Yeah, right :-). In just a short time working together we've eliminated your need for Glyburide, dropped your dose on every other medication, and lowered your cholesterol level below mine. And I've been on a modified regression diet most of my adult life. In addition, your triglycerides have dropped by two-thirds in three weeks. As I suspected, your fructose intake was a big culprit in elevating your endogenous triglyceride production. I would prefer you to stay off fructose for another two to three weeks. Let's allow your body to readjust, establish a healthier metabolic profile, and hopefully get off more of your Rx meds before we slowly reintroduce fruit into your overall dietary program. In case you are wondering why fructose was the culprit, as I mentioned in an earlier post about fruit and triglycerides, due to your previously sedentary lifestyle and genetic predisposition your liver was converting the fructose you ate (primarily from fruit and high-fructose corn syrup) into triglycerides. Once we eliminated fructose, your blood triglyceride levels dropped - exactly as I suspected basing my belief on previously published scientific studies. Now that we have you exercising your metabolism is shifting. Once these new pathways for fructose utilization are established you will metabolize fructose, glucose (you are already doing so with your blood sugar control independent of meds), and other nutrients more efficiently and effectively. While you won't be able to eat unlimited amounts of fruit - like someone who is not genetically predisposed to hypertriglyceridemia - you will be able to eat some fruit without any ill effects. I want to let you know that I am so happy for you words can't describe my feelings. You are doing great work and your dedication to the program and to yourself is really paying off. Hopefully your doctors are taking note and seeing how diet and exercise work their magic and eliminate the need for many prescription meds and treatments. Now if only more people would become aware of these simple truths. - Your Metabolic Wiseman | 
