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What is familial hypercholesterolemia?

What is familial hypercholesterolemia and how to thrive if you have it Familial hypercholesterolemia is an inherited condition which leads to very high cholesterol levels. If you take away the word "familial", then hypercholesterolemia itself simply means high blood cholesterol. As discussed often on this blog, in normal adults, high [...]

5 year health-iversary for managing familial hypercholesterolemia without drugs

5 year health-iversary for managing familial hypercholesterolemia without drugs I just realized that this August 2016 marks my five year anniversary of managing Familial Hypercholesterolemia without drugs. Woot! Yahoo!  Yippee!  I thought I'd jot down a quick: happy-5-year-health-iversary-to-me post to mark the occasion and celebrate something that once seemed impossible [...]