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The debate about statins continues to rage. One aspect that is new to the research I have seen is that is is possible to change one's level of cholesterol constituents quite easily simply by changing food in the few days before you are tested.
From a personal perspective is seems to me that the situation today is :
I will continue with a healthy LCHF diet and ignore any suggestions of statins for now. I hope eventually to be come a hyperresponder myself. = High hdl, low trig, high ldl and a good ratio between hdl and ldl.
My consecutive blood tests so far show me that getting HDL up is a slow process , helped by more saturated fats, but its working !
From a personal perspective is seems to me that the situation today is :
- Doctors in general pay little attention to food intake in consideration of cholesterol or heart risk and receive little nutrition education.
- Familial hypercholesteralaemia caused a general perception that high cholesterol is bad news for anyone. I have recently that the risk from FH reduces as one ages.
- Studies have shown that higher total cholesterol is a good thing as one ages.
- Cholesterol is necessary to absorb vitamin D which is essential and studies have shown increasing levels of vitamin D deficiency
- Drugs can heavily influence LDL but not yet HDL or Trigs- as such medicine has focused on LDL.
- Diet can influence HDL and Trigs AND LDL
- LCHF will increase HDL ( which is good) reduce Trigs ( which is good) and may or may not change LDL. What is will almost certainly do is put the ratio of HDL/ LDL into an ideal range
- Some people may find a big increase in LDL at the same time as they increase HDL and lower Trigs. These are called hyper responders and they are refusing statins because they see no evidence that the high LDL they have is actually unhealthy and all their ratios remain good
- These hyper responders led by @DaveKeto are showing that LDL is dramatically influenced by the foods eaten in the few days before a blood test - inversely to expectations. i.e. the lower the fat content of your diet , the higher the trigs and the higher the LDL and total cholesterol so anyone who prepares for a blood test by "being good" as many of us do, is probably making their own figures worse.
- The fact that LDL changes so dramatically based on diet, when no-one is even asking about diet, seems to me to render most of the studies about LDL utterly meaningless, akin to testing breath ketones and not knowing if the person doing the test had been drinking.
I will continue with a healthy LCHF diet and ignore any suggestions of statins for now. I hope eventually to be come a hyperresponder myself. = High hdl, low trig, high ldl and a good ratio between hdl and ldl.
My consecutive blood tests so far show me that getting HDL up is a slow process , helped by more saturated fats, but its working !