low cholesterol levels high blood urea levels

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ok, i will tell you the excact numbers in a while but

i have high blood urea nitrogen and low (borderline bellow normal) on both my HDL and LDL.

now, high protein diets cause high blood urea, but i have found NOTHING to indicate that high blood urea CAUSE problems, they just indicate kidney/liver mulfunction or high protein diet, so i probably souldnt worry about that provided that other tests show my kidneys are ok, is that corect?

now, the low cholesterol levels, what could cause that and how do i remedy it?

i guess eating more saturated fats? I eat like 100grams of fat per day, in a 3000kcal diet, granted, i have big energy needs (well all of us:P), perhaps fish oil/flax seed? In any case what problems do low HDL and LDL cause? I found some sites (but no studies) indicating depression and heart problems…

i used to diet alot, as in stupidly, cause i was obese, so that could have something to do with it, though i cant be sure. Does the fact that im curently dieting to loose some bf has anything to do with it, and if so is it normal?

(cutting form me=3000kcal 250-350-100 more or less maintaining=3800-4000)

i WILL ask a doctor, but you know how they treat athletes…

again, thanks, i will post the excact numbers in an hour or so, i just dont have the papers with me

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ok, here are the numbers

blood urea: 66 (20-40 NR)
cholesterol: 125 (140-200 NR)
HDL: 58 (40-60 NR)
LDL: 59 (<160)
lipids: 443 (500-600)

everything is in metric (i.e ml/dc etc)

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Your cholesterol really is fantastic. Your HDL is right at the high end of normal, and your LDL is far below what would be considered “dangerous” or even something you’d want to “keep an eye on”.

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hey, thanks for the reply white, thats what i also though after some reading i put on the subject:p

there are anecdotal evidence that very low cholesterol can cause depression but mine is not THAT low, also blood urea aparently is just an indicator and is non toxic, caused by high protein diet.

well, endocrinology is fun:p in any case, jack assed half doctors (not actuall doctors just people around hospitals…) had me worrying that i dont eat properly (they told me that while stuffing the third serving of cake…) so i went to a nutrionist…worst spent money…ever, he adviced me to eat less than 100grams of protein a day, so i reply “im an athlete, ill starve if i eat so little protein” and he said “well you aint competing for the olympics so you must get your blood urea down” i say “but its non toxic, is merely indicative of kidney mulfunction OR high protein diet which is the case with me” and he kind of blanked out.

i told him i eat like 3500kcal a day and he said that im measuring wrong because with so much food i sould be fat. The man was an imbicile, in any case:

“screw them guys…Im going home”

:smiley:

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My opinion now is (based on what I read about it) that total cholesterol, HDL, LDL are mostly useless for judging cardiovascular health.
So if you’re either healty or a heart attack waiting to happen is impossible to say from these numbers.

Read for example:
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no3/colpo.pdf