The same thing happened to me. I’ve been on a keto diet for about 4 years. My LDL went up like crazy this year and I just started on statins. Maybe I’ll try what you did and see if it affects anything. Although, if the statins bring my LDL down, it will be hard to know if my diet is affecting anything.
I’ve been doing keto and fasting for five years. Initially my ldl went up, but that’s to be expected while losing weight. I started putting olive oil in my coffee to increase my fat intake and my ldl dropped like a stone.
Truth be told, most researchers idea of a keto diet is usually bass backwards so I don’t really take their research seriously.
What exactly is the difference between their keto diet and the low sugar diet since keto is also low sugar?
I also noted that I was getting off of the appropriate ratio of copper to zinc. I had enough of both, on paper, but my daily copper was around 4 mg, which drives out zinc, unless I have 30 mg of zinc a day. The ideal ratio is 1 mg copper to 7.5 mg of zinc, from all daily sources. I had been chronically low in zinc, and that, too, will cause blood pressure and cholesterol issues. I have corrected that, now.
Ummm...
You should open your mind to non-orthodox thinking on vascular health which deviates significantly from the ‘lipid hypothesis.’
The fact is that said thinking defines radical changes in blood cholesterol as a response to inflammation.
Translated: Your keto ‘diet’ is making you sick, and then in response to an orthodox blood test and diagnosis, you take a pharmacological substance with known toxic side effects to reduce your body’s response (a combination the public has been gaslighted for >50 years to believe is ‘healthy’).
I ask you: If there’s even half a chance that I’m right, how do you defend putting 2 rounds in the gun (on top of whatever prodded you to even consider a fad like ‘keto’) and - better question - what do you expect might happen next?
I urge you to find a good Naturopath and abandon orthodox AMA medicine if you wish to regain your health, because your so-called ‘doctor’ is killing you.
Free advice (and quite possibly the last time I may offer any here).