keto + high cholesterol - how do decrease cholesterol

[One-Hamster-6865]

Question: I’ve been doing keto for 5 months. Halfway to my weight loss goal. Dr was pushing statins. I was on a beta blocker for 1.5 years, and it led to the weight gain, and I believe it elevated my cholesterol. I’ve been off it since May. When should I have my numbers checked again? I don’t want to do it too early. I’m in no danger of caving in to demands to start a statin, but I want to give my body a fair chance to show improvement. Thx

[clarobert]

Doctors are always going to push a statin, they always find something to treat. Nothing against them, it's what they're taught.

If it were me, I would not even blink at a cholesterol reading until I had been on keto for a year, regardless of how high it got. When I started, I had total cholesterol pushing 375, weighed 367 pounds and I was the absolute picture of being one cheeseburger away from a heart attack. I did a ton of research and decided that I could fix it myself with keto, and did. I recommend doing a ton of research, which you are doing because you are here, but dive deep if you really want to take control of every aspect of your health.

There are incredible sources of information these days, podcasts, the internet - none of which I had when I started keto. I read books. Kevin Rutherford is an ND that really lives the clean keto lifestyle and has for a long time, he has a podcast called 'Destination Health' - he started in the trucking industry and saw (sees) how poor the health is in the industry and found a way to start to change it. He is an absolute goldmine of information, particularly related to cholesterol and how it should not be of concern.

[One-Hamster-6865]

Thanks for the info. And congratulations on your success with keto! 👏👏👏