Have you managed to reduce cholesterol naturally and if so, how

Avarice, hate, and stress beget ill health, bros. Chronic elevation of cortisol and adrenaline will result in rampant release of FFA and blood sugar, which will be oxidized. You’ll become peripherally insulin resistant. You guys who only do endurance training - you’re short-changing your longevity by not developing your muscles to perform other tasks. I bet a lot of you guys over 30 who say you’re 170, lean, and 6’1” are actually not whatever 10-15% bodyfat you like to think, but more so 15-25%, and I bet those who are actually lean are too lean and are still getting both jacked up SNS activity from stimulants and stress, as well as increased LDL and inflammation from crashed estradiol levels.

We have to find balance in life!

I’m the above poster with high HDL. Mostly agree, and I’d say I live a pretty stress-free life. Enjoy my job, good income, read a lot. Don’t really follow new or social media. I’m pretty easy going and calm and reflective. I do a lot of pull-ups and push-ups.

Have you been intentionally gaining weight or losing weight? I recently realized that either can increase blood cholesterol. I was in a long weight training gain phase until early March and then losing around half a percent body weight per week since then, and it looks like when the body metabolizes fat reserves on a caloric deficit, it increases blood fat, so it’s best to measure cholesterol when you’ve been at a steady weight for a while.

I’ve been within the same +/- 5lbs since high school

acc.org

‘Keto-Like’ Diet May Be Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Disease, Cardiac Events - American College of Cardiology

Link:www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2...

more reasons to avoid keto if you care about your heart.

"keto like" means not keto.

Self-reporting diet studies are absolutely worthless.

you cry about the metabolic ward study, you cry about observational trials...you just cry ketone body tears all day. is it the lack of carbs? probably - i gotta imagine so, all you keto people are so angry lol.

the evidence is screaming at you - "YOU'RE AN IDIOT" but you don't have the self awareness to see it and change. You're like a dumber, less-credentialed version of paul saladino the carnivore idiot. you like keto so go enjoy it and keep suffering like a moron while i enjoy my cake and my lower LDL and my lower CVD risk.

You must be very new here that you get sucked into arguing with ChildInTheRoom...this guy is a professional troll with unlimited time in the basement. I think he is paid by the brojos to generate pages. You can find him on any thread, climate change, Covid, Trump etc etc...guess which side he is on. The more conspiracy the better. The single most prolific poster, maybe they take shifts because they post while they should be sleeping too.

He Has an LRC app that alerts him to threads, based on special keywords and usernames. ... "an actual doctor" has a notification score of 9/10. Change it to 'humpty dumpty' to throw him off the scent, start agreeing with him, then suddenly flip back and forth to confuse him.

Good luck

It wasn't the keto diet it was "near keto" which is idiotic. There's no such thing as "near keto" you're either in ketosis or you're not.

You're a schmuck.

If you are committed to dropping your cholesterol without statins, follow the Ornish diet.

Well we have the USDA making an implicit admission that polyunsatured fats (vegetable oils) oxidize. The USDA intentionally created a lower polyunsaturated fat cottonseed to make a healthier oil:

In seeking to create a healthier oil, why would the USDA modify a cottonseed to intentionally have higher amounts of oleic acid and lower amounts of "heart healthy" polyunsaturated omega 6 fat? The USDA is admitting that polyunsaturated fats readily oxidize, i.e., are cancer causing.

It looks like the USDA is disagreeing with "an actual doctor."

It's important to remember that the "actual doctor" has little or no dietary training. He's leaning on his supposed MD to give authority to his opinion on a topic he doesn't know much about.

You realize that the USDA is the department of AGRICULTURE, right? Why would you go to a farmer for advice on nutrition?

You’re not appreciating how many people that previously trusted doctors and “experts” now see then as money grubbing hacks lacking the intellect and courage to do what was right during the pandemic. They see you as someone completely devoid of common sense. In the view of “experts”, If something isn’t written in a peer reviewed study, then it’s impossible and completely wrong.

As a 50 something on/off athlete who likes to eat and drink things he shouldn’t, I’ve found myself in need of losing weight many times. Having tried maybe a dozen approaches, by far, the most effective is keto. Weight drops fast with little hunger. And all of my blood markers improve dramatically. But, alas, no peer reviewed study to prove that what I have personally experienced is true. What to do, what to do? Trust they guy trying to push unsafe, ineffective, and unnecessary experimental gene therapies or what I have personally experienced?

More hard work from “experts” with PhD’s…

semafor.com

A third of scientific papers may be fraudulent | Semafor

https://www.semafor.com/author/tom-chivers

A new paper analyzing scientific studies finds that many of them are plagiarized or faked.

Link:www.semafor.com/article/05/10/2023/sci...

Cost of high quality medical diagnosis about to plumet . I would call my personal doc: House++

Google's foray
Med-PaLM 2 is a generative AI technology that utilizes Google's LLMs to answer medical questions.

Then you can see imaging and small molecule screening and on and on

Big Med is getting very nervous . No more wait till a person is ill then milk them dry using Fear Uncertainty and Doubt to manipulate.

Right now you can go to walk-in labs and order these 3 labs Quest Cardio IQ, hsCRP and HbA1C.

I tried crestor but my liver enzymes when way up so I tried zetia which is a different pathway less chol absorption my liver was ok but my Cardio IQ went to pattern B so I had less ldl but the number size of small dense ldl particles actually increased! I quit zetia as well. I now focus on keeping inflammation levels low as well as insulin sensitivity (another useful test fasting insuling or at home oral glucose tollerance test ) . My big diet change was using resistant starch for most of my carbs. Dropped my fasting insulin from 105 to 92 so this system works much better. Most people do not understand how the liver plays a key role in blood glucose levels. And checkout this vid I do not totally agree with Ford but his stuff is ok

image of the Cardio IQ lab result graph

also I have an at home ldl trig test kit high post prandial trigs were a big problem for me until I reduce saturated fat from my diet. The home test kit made it easy to measure this. Post prandial trigs are often overlooked

Your HDL/trig ratio is ideal. Your LDL is also very healthy for all-cause mortality. Keep eating the steak and eggs, which are the healthiest human foods to which our physiology is adapted, and even dependent on, for over two million years. Your doctor is just another pharma shill unfortunately. Time to find a new one that is up on the science.

(Responding to "ipsofacto")