Well, unless I’m dying I finally achieved the extremely low cholesterol numbers I’ve been wanting. A few months ago, I switched from a very low fat McDougall type diet to a diet that achieves about 30-35% fat via nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, and some avocado here and there.
The 2020 numbers are my most recent best and all-time-lowest LDL.
| Assay | 2020-07-07 | 2022-06-16 |
|:-|-:|-:|
| Total | 164 | 121 |
| LDL | 96 | 59 |
| HDL | 57 | 46 |
| Triglycerides | 57 | 81 |
| Non-HDL | 107 | 75 |
| C/H Ratio | 2.9 | 2.6 |
Usually in the morning I have oats and fruit. I add flax, chia, pumpkin, and sesame seeds. At lunch I’ll eat 1/4 cup of walnuts, along with cooked vegetables and a serving of beans or grain. Dinner has been a salad with tofu or tempeh and some other nuts, which can be pecans, pistachios, almonds, peanuts, or whatever. Breakfast is the largest meal, lunch smaller, and dinner is the smallest meal of my day and is relatively low carb. I usually try to work in 14 almonds a day for the vitamin E. I try to maintain a calorie deficit and have finally begun losing weight. Volume eating is no longer a problem.
I supplement DHA/EPA, D, Iodine daily. I’ve been taking some other things as well but I don’t see their relevance here.
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*Edit: 2022-06-16 22:49*
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Ok, my HbA1 results returned. This is of relevance to higher-fat diets so I’ll post the *lab* (not home glucometer) values from both of the dates above. The Glucose result from 2020 is also my lowest ever lab value:
| Assay | 2020-07-07 | 2022-06-16 |
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| Glucose | 75 | 94 |
| HbA1C | *Not Ordered* | 5.3 |
My home glucometer usually reads a bit higher and has been reading in the upper 90s. This is a normal historical value for me, as I tend to hover around 100. However, a very low fat diet *will* reduce your fasting glucose. To me this is no reason to worry. My A1C is still very much normal as well, and a 2-hr postprandial I did at home returns to baseline.
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*Edit: 2022-06-17 00:10*
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[AgingAI 3.0](http://aging.ai/aging-v3/) Results:
| Date | Actual Age | Predicted Age | Diff |
|:-:|-:|-:|-:|
| 2020-07-07 | 44 | 45 | 0 |
| 2022-06-16 | 46 | 40 | -6 |
I did better this year, but I’ve done even better in years past. I believe my protein intake was higher in 2020, but I don’t care to analyze it right now. I’ll never be as good at it as [Dr. Lustgarten](https://michaellustgarten.com/) anyway.
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