I've transferred this post from my old keto blog, which is now dead. But I wanted to save this particular article because I refer to it often myself.
Do you worry about your cholesterol? After all, the medical community has drilled in the importance of low cholesterol for the last couple of decades in particular. Is it something really worth worrying about or is it just a manipulation by the pharmaceutical company to push more drugs? I pretty much think the latter, but I've been brainwashed enough to still worry about it.
I'm now over four months into my keto and still keeping data on things like weight, blood work, general health. As mentioned in prior posts, my cholesterol has jumped with this diet, but when I put the standard cholesterol lipid panel results (40 year old testing methods) into the new, current cholesterol calculators, the results were varied quite a bit.
Even though the new calculator set my mind at ease a bit, it still wasn't the best answer to the question of cholesterol health. In order to get that, I had to get the detailed lipid test that Kaiser doesn't offer! Called an NMR Lipid Panel, I had to go to an independent lab and shell out $99 of my own money. This post is to share those results.
