Hard boiled eggs, super food, very portable, easy to throw in a backpack or lunch box. Available in most convenience stores

Which elimination diets have you used? They didn’t work?

The carnivore diet is often used in a elimination protocol because it’s very well tolerated by people. Red meat, water, and salt. 90 days - if that doesn’t resolve your issue then it may not be a food based issue.

Judy Cho has a book detailing the protcol and rationale - Carnivore Cure: The Ultimate Elimination Diet

In addition to eliminating all the organic toxins in foods which you might be intolerant of https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/natural-toxins-in-food , it also removes industrial pesticides from your diet, which you might also be reacting too.

Cholesterol is a broad term and doesn’t address the specifics necessary to addr iness overall average health for an individual.

I agree completely, people should not be trying to treat a cholesterol number. They should be optimizing their metabolic health. Cholesterol should be an indicator that further follow-up is required, either arterial imaging, or diet and lifestyle interventions

Then there is the whole “sugar” issue. There are dozens of sugars and we only associate the term with fructose or sucrose. We can technically name all sorts of things as sugars, but if it doesn’t include sucrose and fructose explicitly, then it “isn’t” sugar on the label.

Happily, all of those sugars do get included in the carbohydrate label on packaging. I would say dietary carbohydrates are the biggest culprit in cardiovascular disease, and that’s what people should focus on instead of cholesterol.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/saturated-fat#evidence-to-date

Not all experts agree.

• A 2009 meta-analysis of 28 cohort studies and 16 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) concluded “The available evidence from cohort and randomised controlled trials is unsatisfactory and unreliable to make judgment about and substantiate the effects of dietary fat on risk of CHD.”

• A 2010 meta-analysis of 21 cohort studies found no association between saturated fat intake on CHD outcomes.

• A 2014 systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials found that the evidence does not clearly support dietary guidelines that limit intake of saturated fats and replace them with polyunsaturated fats.

• A 2015 meta-analysis of 17 observational studies found that saturated fats had no association with heart disease, all-cause mortality, or any other disease.

• A 2017 meta-analysis of 7 cohort studies found no significant association between saturated fat intake and CHD death.

Plus more at the above well cited reference

Extremely well written! Thank you for putting that together

Eating lots of meat isn’t a problem for cholesterol

There is a group of people, the LMHR (lean mass hyper responders) who do have highly elevated cholesterol on very keto/carnivore diets.

The outstanding question is if cholesterol is actually harmful in of itself - the data I’ve seen indicates that it isn’t harmful.

“They” can also just he normal people who don’t want to be wrong. Doctors are famous for their humility and self reflection.

The cholesterol heart hypothesis was pushed by ancel Keys, who has since been shown to be a dishonest academic, leaving out data, or abandoning research if the results didn’t math the preconceived conclusions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys

In medicine, like many fields, sometimes the old guard has to retire out before change can happen.

I’m also a !carnivore@lemm.ee and I’ve satisfied myself that LDL by itself is not a risk factor I should be concerned with.

If you need it, you need it.

I just found ways to replace my old pills with food and lifestyle

I was on 3, but I got rid of them all.

I want to live without any pills!

Seek immediate medical attention.

In general if you are having cardiovascular issues, such as blood flow, tingling, numbness - check on your vitals. Blood pressure, pulse, blood glucose, lipid panel.

Many people have great success improving cardio vascular function by removing sugar and carbohydrates from their diet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz01qSHR3Ug