yes, dietary cholesterol is not as strongly correlated with blood cholesterol than most people realize.

this is going one step further. "total blood cholesterol" / LDL-P are not nearly as correlated with heart disease than most people realize either. particle size is far more important, as well as HDL/triglycerides ratio.

most doctors will refuse to test for the former, nor know how to read the results if you test it yourself.

all of this is context dependent with the rest of your metabolism, too. If you avoid carbs and sugars and have a low-inflammation environment, that also has implications for atherosclerosis that "total cholesterol" alone doens't take into account.

briefly: the statin scam goes a few layers deeper than just dietary cholesterol

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what's the important part of HDL/Triglycerides ratio?

got my first test of middle age and learning about this for the 1st time

https://prevmedhealth.com/glossary-of-terms#Framingham

you want a low TG/HDL ratio. low TG, high HDL. ratio of 1 or less is good. low carb diet will get you there. low fat diet will not.

I'm gonna recheck my results!

hmm mine is still 1.3 or so

too many carb lately?

#1 side effect of statins is ED.

#2 drug sold by the #1 statin manufacturer is Viagra

I don't know if I'm right, but I'm pretty spiteful towards people I feel tried to scam me. "Die on that hill" might be literal for me this time if they are the ones who are right.