My doctor said to give up chips....I said..."both bags"...cuz that's more than I would eat in a year.
Now...Age 70....Cholesterol is 120. BP 108/68.
If I die, I die.
Whoops...Cholesterol is 240...the same as 30 years ago.
Are your genes by any chance from Italy? I recall some time ago hearing about a certain place, I think it was a certain town, where about all the people had very high cholesteral readings - but were all perfectly normal otherwise, and had no ill effects.