Hi Newby here

4 years on keto and now 3 months on Carnivore, beef, eggs, salmon and plenty of butter and tallow, no dairy, feel marvellous, have reversed metabolic syndrome, diabetes type 2, blood pressure, BMI now 21, 63kg) and off all medication except Ezetimibe only to placate my doctor as my total LDL went up (LMHR), lol, but every other blood marker was excellent. Just watched the documentary "The Cholesterol Code" on Amazon Prime, a must watch documentary for people on a Ketogenic Carnivore diets.

Welcome to Carnivore Talk Oyodi.

We love to hear the success stories from our fellow carnivores. It is a wonderful healing lifestyle.

Congrats.

In the beginning I was concerned with cholesterol as I had spent many years on a dumpster diet with pretty much no exercise other than the physical nature of my job.

As time went on I put less and less thought into the cholesterol numbers. Mostly, because I was deep into ketosis most of the time (with high GKI numbers) so it would stand to reason more fat/cholesterol would be in my bloodstream at any given time.

After two years I get it checked but don't really make adjustments. My initial total and LDL went down after the first three or four months on carnivore. Six months later it made a significant jump, then sort of planed off some and here recently made some drops across the board. Other than the first six months I can attribute the cholesterol numbers to the adjustments I have made within the carnivore diet. (upping/lowering fat content as well as upping protein grams per day)

Congrats on the progress. Continued successes.

Scott

Welcome aboard @Oyodi and it sounds like you are doing awesome. Keep it up!

On 6/9/2026 at 6:57 AM, Oyodi said:

and off all medication except Ezetimibe only to placate my doctor as my total LDL went up (LMHR)

My doctors like to nag me about LDL. I am not a LMHR though, as I am not "lean" yet, lol. My lipids are a but wonky due to my kidney disease. I'm firm on the no statins and they know it, so they are trying to convince me to go down the Repatha route. However, odds are the insurance will kick it back to the doctor and say to put me on a statin first, lol.

35 minutes ago, Bob said:

Welcome aboard @Oyodi and it sounds like you are doing awesome. Keep it up!

My doctors like to nag me about LDL. I am not a LMHR though, as I am not "lean" yet, lol. My lipids are a but wonky due to my kidney disease. I'm firm on the no statins and they know it, so they are trying to convince me to go down the Repatha route. However, odds are the insurance will kick it back to the doctor and say to put me on a statin first, lol.

Yeah, me the same, doctor wanted to put me on a statin due to my total cholesterol at 8.3 mmol/L (330 mg/dL), so we came to a compromise of Ezetimibe! Evidently it doesn't interfere with The Lipid Energy Model (LEM), a metabolic hypothesis formulated to explain a distinct lipid profile that frequently emerges when lean, physically active, and metabolically healthy individuals adopt a strict low-carbohydrate or carnivore lifestyle.

Developed by researchers including Dave Feldman and Dr. Nick Norwitz, the model reframes blood lipids not merely as markers of cardiovascular risk, but as active trafficking components of an energy distribution system; from "The Cholesterol Code" documentary.