How did you lower your LDL? page

[AKPrimal]

Mine's quite high - 274 (although my Tri's are relatively ok at 77).

Those of you who successfully lowered your LDL:

- What foods did you add/cut?
- What supplements did you add?
- What were your stats before/after?

Would love to get this under control. Thanks.

[Knifegill]

I just ate more fish to raise my HDL instead.

[Groktimus Prime]

LDL is still usually indirectly calculated using the 1971 Freidewald equation (LDL = Total Cholesterol - HDL - [Triglycerides/5]). So, raising your HDL will directly lower the LDL number you obtain from your blood lab report. Also, interestingly enough, raising your triglycerides (TG) above 400 (which you don't want to do, BTW) would tweak the LDL numbers as well. According to Dr. Eades:

Triglyceride levels of 40-90 mg/dl are not uncommon, and are, in fact, typical. When Friedewald did his work, the triglyceride levels were mainly up in the 150 – 250 mg/dl range, and in this range his equations match pretty well to directly measured LDL levels, but all bets are off with triglycerides above 400 mg/dl and, I suspect, triglyceride levels below 100 mg/dl. MD and I did find this ourselves in a few patients that we did direct LDL measurements on in our practice.