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Yes -- Please fast at least 8 hours, preferably 12 before taking a lipid panel. When eating a meal, you WILL have fat packaged into chylomicrons as TG, which WILL increase your serum TG levels (and again, note that TG is part of what is used in the Friedewald calculation for LDL-C). This isn't...

Sorry, that is a poorly worded sentence. I should update it... Basically, I'm saying reference ranges for low to high risk is probably different for those on a low carb diet over those on a high carb diet. A low carb diet has an appropriate reason to send out and traffick more VLDLs at any...

Hi guys! I got pinged to swing by and I see I could do a little expanding here. :) So for the basics on lipoproteins, I highly recommend my Simple Guide series here: http://cholesterolcode.com/a-simple-guide-to-cholesterol-on-low-carb/ -- it's super layperson friendly and can help answer the...

For the most part, dietary cholesterol has very little impact on serum cholesterol. 85% of cholesterol in your body right now was made by it, with only the remaining 15% from diet. The reason eating foods that are high in cholesterol can lead to higher serum cholesterol is because these foods...

Greetings all! I was pinged to come here and thought I’d hit a bunch of these questions — hope this helps! :) Yes! 16% / 25.7 LDL decrease across the board. I haven’t had a chance to do a more formal write up, but you can see my “tilted ladder graph” here on my LC USA presentation: Two...

Hi @CathP - I'm Dave from CholesterolCode.com. I friend pinged me about this thread to see if I could help out. - You should know that many doctors consider high levels of cholesterol alone to be sufficient to diagnose FH ("Only someone with FH could have those numbers..."). This is highly...