HDL cholesterol question

[Suezoled]

Any meds, foods, etc that raise HDL?

Assuming person is otherwise relatively healthy, eats relatively well, exercises 2-3 times a week, but their HDL is in the crabber?
There are plenty of drugs that lower LDL, but that's not needed.

Also, triglycerides are crazy, up one day, down the next...metabolic (genetic) screwiness going on.

This is for a friend of mine.

[El Greco]

Hi Suez!

Exercise doesn't seem to have a significant effect on lipid profiles, be it aerobic (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17533202&ordinalpos=15&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) or resistance training (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=3679608&ordinalpos=12&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVDocSum).

Some omega-3 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15164323&ordinalpos=25&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) may help. But what seems to improve HDL levels the most, is ...gorging and fasting! (*) Look at this (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=9505158&ordinalpos=11&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVDocSum), for example. And a lot of other studies about the effect of Ramadan on lipid profile (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&DbFrom=pubmed&Cmd=Link&LinkName=pubmed_pubmed&LinkReadableName=Related Articles&IdsFromResult=16201718&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus).

(*) ETA: You may want to further look it up as "intermittent fasting".