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Cholesterol changes on Carnivore

In a word, yes, that can be normal. As your body is getting adapted to a high fat diet your cholesterol numbers can be a little wacky but it’s nothing to be concerned about at this time. It’s recommended that you shouldn’t get a blood test done until you’ve been carnivore for at least six months or even a year.
Even after that it’s likely to be higher than what the medical establishment considers normal but carnivore aren’t normal.
Give it time.

By Geezy · 9 hours ago9 hr
Cholesterol changes on Carnivore

The lipid panel was a little messy on the initial post. This is more clear: Lipid Panels.pdf

By Colin · 18 hours ago18 hr
Cholesterol changes on Carnivore

Hello, everyone. I recently started carnivore as an extreme elimination diet to see if it would clear up some eczema. It seems to have had a strong impact on my lipid panel and I wanted to get an idea of what is a normal change in cholesterol as a result of eating carnivore.
Here is my lipid panel:

Date Cholesterol Triglyceride HDL Chol LDL Chol Non-HDL
5/26/2025 210 189 54 118.2 156
4/20/2026 Started Carnivore
5/26/2026 350 201 35.6 274.2 314.4
6/26/2026 439 180 34.1 368.9 404.9

I started carnivore on about 4/20/2026
Is that spike typical, or do I have something else going on? Are those numbers ok as long as I am otherwise healthy, or is carnivore just not for me?

By Colin · 18 hours ago18 hr
Another somewhat extended fast completed

I ate 5 or 6 pork shops Friday night about 8PM and last night around 2AM I ate a handful of beef jerky. Technically, I broke it then but will not eat again until tomorrow night.
The first 24 hours was a dry fast and then water fasting til tomorrow.
It is totally weird, or maybe I am weird, but I get the fact I can lose a few pounds here and there when fasting. I also understand there is metabolic benefits to allowing the body, for no better words, to catch up and reset. But as of late the weight and the metabolic health are more like bonuses to fasting. I am fasting now for no more reason than how good I feel from 24 hours and beyond.
I'm no spring chicken at 56, a hard 56 at that with most of those years eating a dumpster diet and working was the only working out I was doing. This past weekend I ate Friday night and I dumped 5500kgs of re-process material. That consists of tipping over a 50 kilo drum (a little over 100 pounds), lifting the back and dumping the powder into a process tank. The plant was well over 100 degrees til the early morning when it dropped to the mid-90's. I didn't eat for 24 hours and repeated another 5500 kilos on Saturday night and did the same last night soon after 48 hours of fasting. On Saturday morning I stopped by the gym a lifted for just about an hour, leg day on top of that.
Here I am on Monday morning with a boat load of energy and don't feel like I am going to sleep much today. Sort of awake and ready to do stuff. Feels good but sort of sucks knowing I have to do 12 more hours tonight.
Babbling til bedtime but carnivore, fasting and resistance training has been a life changer for me, and at times I would even say a life saver. That might be a stretch but at times I sort of feel that way.
Scott

By Scott F. · Monday at 01:26 PM2 days
Patience is key

Congrats. There is nothing like hitting a target attaining a goal. Nice work.
Scott

By Scott F. · Saturday at 07:46 PM4 days

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