It appears I’m a hyper-responder as well. Cholesterol went up (HDL was 1.4, LDL 7.3 which was up from 5.2 taken late last year. 9.6 Cholesterol total).My doctor freaked out and wanted to put me on statins and I was like hell no. Changed doctors to one who supports LCHF.
I did have a Heart CT scan though and just found out all is normal, calcium score of zero.
So as @daveketo mentioned just because there is cholesterol in your blood doesn’t mean it’s actually being used.
I have this analogy I use. If a house is on first (the inflammation) then the firemen are the Cholesterol. You wouldn’t shoot the firemen that turn up, you would let them deal with the fire. (Statins wipe out the firemen). If the heaps of firemen show up but the house is not even on fire then they eventually leave and go look for the next fire. The blood test shows how much cholesterol there is (how many firemen) not how many are fighting fires. There might be no fires at all (no inflammation). The heart CT test shows how much damage from fires there are.
It was pretty expensive ($560Aus) but I feel better knowing. Medicare doesn’t cover any of it so goes to show how much the Government doesn’t care about reducing heart disease.
btw, my second opinion doctor said my blood works looked fine except for the cholesterol and even then the jury is out if that actually means anything relating to heart disease. There are two sides disagreeing what it means. In my book that means they have no idea, really.