Are High Triglycerides Making Me Tired?

Triglycerides
Diet
Lifestyle Changes
Medication
Prevention

Written by Patricia Coldiron

25 October, 2017

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Having high triglycerides alone don’t make you tired, but conditions such as diabetes or thyroid disease that raise triglyceride levels, can make you feel drained and tired.

Prompt treatment of these medical problems, paying stricter attention to what you eat and eliminating bad help habits will lower triglyceride levels, and eliminate fatigue.

Triglycerides

Triglycerides are fats in your blood 2. Any calories not needed immediately after eating, are converted into triglycerides and stored in your fat cells. When you need energy between meals, hormones release triglycerides. Regularly eating more calories than you burn, may result in high triglycerides.

Triglycerides are fats in your blood 2.
Any calories not needed immediately after eating, are converted into triglycerides and stored in your fat cells.

Diet

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If you’re overweight, the movement of the diaphragm is restricted, and so is your breathing. Not being able to take full, deep diaphragmatic breaths means less oxygen is transported to your tissues, and you feel tired and sluggish.

Losing weight will significantly lower triglyceride levels; you’ll feel more energetic and reduce your risk of developing diabetes.

Eat a fiber-rich diet of foods such as bran cereals, peas and beans, and aim for five servings of fruits and vegetables daily.

Enjoy fish at least twice a week, cook chicken without the skin, and buy lean cuts of meat.

Choose canola, corn, safflower, soybean and olive oil to cook with and liquid or tub margarine for spreads.

If you’re overweight, the movement of the diaphragm is restricted, and so is your breathing.
Not being able to take full, deep diaphragmatic breaths means less oxygen is transported to your tissues, and you feel tired and sluggish.