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Rarely, elevated levels of triglycerides occur on their own. There is almost always another condition associated with the high levels. High triglycerides form part of a group of medical conditions regarded as metabolic syndrome. These conditions increase the risk of suffering from other conditions like stroke, heart attack, and diabetes. Elevated levels of triglycerides may be caused by conditions like poorly controlled diabetes, obesity, hypothyroidism or underactive thyroid gland, and kidney disease. When you regularly eat more calories than the body can burn, this may also result to increased levels of these fat compounds in body. Drinking a lot of alcohol is also associated with elevated triglyceride levels. Taking certain medications such as steroids, diuretics, beta-blockers, tamoxifen, estrogen, and birth control pills can also increase the levels. In atypical cases, high triglycerides may run in families. How can you lower high triglycerides? High levels of triglycerides ca...

Triglycerides play a major role in formation of a lipid bilayer, which creates the structure of cell membranes. Both triglycerides and phospholipids form a lipid bilayer that serves as membrane barrier separating the inside and the outside of a cell. What happens is that triglycerides and phospholipids have their polar head facing the inside as well as outside of the cell. The non-polar parts of the molecules (usually the fatty acid portions) tend to dissolve in one another. By dissolving, they form a mixture of substance that is resistant to water. This water resistant substance keeps the solution within the cells inside and at the same time, it restricts any flow of water and other things outside the cell. This cell membrane is not rigid but fluid-like, something that adds value to the cells.  In the lipid bilayers, there are other molecules like proteins, which move from the inside and outside of cell through the cell membrane allowing for the conduction of chemicals in and o...

Triglycerides are lipids or fats and therefore, they do not dissolve in water. This makes it difficult for the triglycerides to be directly absorbed in body. When you eat food that contains fat in form of triglycerides, it goes to the stomach and intestines. In the intestines, large fat droplets mix with bile salts released from the gall bladder. Bile salts are manufactured in the liver and stored in gall bladder. The process where large fat droplets mix with bile salts is called emulsification. This process breaks the large molecules of triglycerides into small droplets known as micelles thus increasing the surface area of the fats. An enzyme called lipase, which is secreted by pancreas, attacks the surface of the micelle, breaking the fat into glycerol and fatty acids. These parts are then absorbed through the cells of the intestine wall lining. Once they get into the intestinal lining wall cells, the glycerol and fatty acids parts are reassembled and packaged into fat molecules wi...

Triglycerides are digested by the body and are source of energy for metabolism. In the right amounts, triglycerides are good for the health of the body, however when in excess, they can lead to health complications. When you take in too many calories than the body can utilize, they are converted and stored as triglycerides.  Increased levels of these fats can result to health conditions like heart disease and diabetes. High triglycerides do not show symptoms in body except when the high levels are caused by a genetic disorder. If a genetic condition causes the elevated levels of these fats, a person may have fatty deposits under the skin, a condition known as xanthomas. What are triglycerides? Triglycerides are organic chemicals compounds that form part of the different lipids or fats found in food. Other lipids include sterols or cholesterol and phospholipids. Triglycerides are the common form fat people digest from the food they eat and consist of the main ingredients in vege...