I tried the 'carnivore diet' for a solid month and my cholesterol went through the roof

Wait, so the cholesterol test doesn't even show the full picture? That's wild! I just read what @the_dylan said about fluffy versus dense particles, and it makes a lot of sense. It seems crazy to get scared by a number without knowing the whole story. If your other health markers got better, that sounds like a good sign to me. I'd be way more worried about high inflammation than a big LDL number on a page.

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terry_lewis215mo ago

Honestly, @the_drew is right, that number alone is scary without the full story.

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the_dylan6mo ago

Cholesterol numbers can be misleading on a carnivore diet. The big fluffy LDL particles you often get from eating this way are not the same as the small dense ones linked to heart disease. A standard lipid panel doesn't show that difference. My own numbers looked scary at first, but my inflammation markers and triglycerides improved a lot.

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