So I was planning to start my cycle mid March and decided to get some blood work done February to make sure that I am healthy and what have you. Everything in my panel looked good till I got to the lipid section. My cholesterol were very bad to say the least. My doctor wanted to put me on statins saying that my numbers were really bad. I told her that I did not want to take statins and instead told her to give me a few months to lower the numbers myself.

At the time of that blood work I had been keto dieting for almost 3 months. my cholesterol numbers were as followed.

my numbers from 2/21/2017: total cholesterol: 277, triglycerides: 98, HDL: 48, LDL 209

cholesterol ratio: 5.8 (which is hight) range: <or= 5.0

my doctor wanted to put me on statins, I told her to give me a few months to get that number down

42 days later

my numbers from 4/4/2017: total cholesterol: 187, triglycerides: 52, HDL: 55, LDL 122

cholesterol ratio: 3.4 (which is ideal) range: <or= 5.0

you can check out my blood work cholesterol numbers here if you'd like:

my blood work cholesterol results

But pharmabruh, how did you go about lowering your cholesterol numbers?

The first thing I did was to pick up some vital supplements that have studies backing their positive effect on cholesterol.

thess are the supplements I bought for my cholesterol reducing cycle

Niacin flush 500 mgs per tablet. ( DO NOT GET THE "FLUSH FREE" NIACIN!)

Red yeast rice 600 mgs per capsule.

Omega 3 1000 mgs per capsule.

multi-vitamins

Garlic extract 100 mgs per capsule.

Soluble fiber supplement.

But pharmabruh, what were your dosages for these supplements??

The personal dosages I took of each supplement are as followed:

Niacin at 1000 mgs a day
Red Yeast rice at 1200 mgs a day
Omega 3 at 3000 mgs a day
1 multi-vitamin every morning
Garlic extract at 200 mgs a day
soluble fiber at 10 grams a day

So pharmabruh, you're telling me that if I take this without any dietary changes I am still going to lower my cholesterol?

No, I personally decided to make a few changes to my diet to improve the effects of these supplement in a more positive way.

what changes did you make to your diet, phramabruh??

Before, I was eating a diet that was very hight in animal fat. For example, I was eating a lot of ground beef that was 89% lean, I was eating about 10 whole eggs a day, I was not eating healthy fats, I was not consuming enough soluble fiber.
I decided to eat only egg whites, the leanest ground beef i could find, chicken breast, tuna and from time to time salmon. I also started to eat more veggies, 1 ounce of almonds (or other healthy fat nuts) 3 times a day, half an avocado everyday.

also, I try to keep my dietary cholesterol consumption at 250-300 mgs a day.

also, cut out all processed sugars from the diet. :-)

I hope that this has been an interesting read for you guys and hope that it can help some of you guys get your cholesterol levels back in range.