Back in 2015 after being on a Paleo diet for a little over a year my cholesterol was up but I wasn’t too concerned about it at the time.   I kept on Paleo and even went hard-core Wahls Paleo Plus/Keto for a while last fall.  In 2016 my cholesterol numbers were again high but my doctor wasn’t concerned, same thing in early 2018.  Each time my values were up but ratios looked good, no inflammatory markers and I was showing low risk of cardiovascular disease on the NMR profile.  Then in the late fall I started having some weird symptoms and went in for blood work.  What came back cholesterol wise wasn’t too much of a surprise in the standard lipid panel but it was the new advanced markers that were a bit scarier.

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