I lean in the paleo to keto direction myself. Keeps my blood numbers good and makes it easier to eat less and keep weight off. I try to avoid going especially high in protein and to get plenty of veggies. (Have a good-sized garden.)
Indeed. When I first switched over to the Atkins/Keto diet, my blood sugar dropped, my cholesterol dropped... the cholesterol part was astonishing to me because it seems counter-intuitive. More meat = lower cholesterol? How could that be? But in switching over to more protein, I also cut out sugar and carbs.
But actually in my layman’s research, it seems that a lot of cholesterol theories were based on faulty research. It had an inherent bias in that they did not consider or control for sugar or carb intake, only looked for meat intake. I have come to believe there is some correlation between sugar and cholesterol and am not entirely convinced cholesterol numbers are the be all and end all. And I’m speaking as a person with CV disease so I take it seriously enough to have at least done some digging around.