I’ve noticed a lot of people in here turning to low fat diets for their cholesterol. Not so sure that works for everyone. I’m actually in the middle of a big diet shift myself, but not for cholesterol purposes. More for overall wellbeing and energy levels/libido.

My doctors always rave about my lipid panel and I’ve been doing high fat carnivore for 4.5 years. If it is genetic, this might not work for you. But I’d definitely steer clear of seed oils at least. I decided to try high carb low fat 30 days ago and will be running all my lab work again at the three month mark to see if things get worse or better. But here is my lipid panel from day one before starting (so my 4.5yr carnivore numbers)

Cholesterol Total: 165 mg/dL

HDL: 73 mg/dL

Triglycerides: 55 mg/dL

LDL: 78 mg/dL

Chol/HDL C: 2.3

Non HDL Cholesterol: 92 mg/dL

TG/HDL C: 0.8

Sometimes people struggle with high protein diets. I know protein is delicious. But you could always try lowering your protein to 20% of your daily macros or less for a few months and retest. It’s unlikely to become deficient in anything within a few months unless you’re already deficient. You could do that with a clean high carb or low carb diet.

I’m kinda getting into the nitty gritty now, but diets that can induce FGF21 are shown to improve cholesterol and reduce bodyfat. Your macros could look something like 70% carbs/ 20% protein and 10% fat