Cholesterol – BJJ Caveman

Dr. Cromwell’s Take on Low Carb and High Cholesterol from Robb Wolf’s Wired To Eat Bonus Material

Posted on April 13, 2018April 12, 2018 by BJJ Caveman

As a pre-order bonus to Robb Wolf’s latest book, Wired to Eat, he provided access to an interview with Dr. William Cromwell, a lipidologist who is the Director of Cardiovascular Disease at LabCorp where they discuss the ins and outs of various blood tests.

Their discussion naturally made its way to lipids and LDL-P which is of particular interest to me given my own history of having high LDL-Ps.

When Dr. Cromwell encounters a patient with an elevated LDL, he first likes to understand why it’s elevated. … Read More

Cholesterol Update Late April 2017: Intermittent Fasting, Cut Out Red Meat and Eggs, And Drank Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted on October 16, 2017October 15, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

After my most recent cholesterol blood test in the earlier weeks of April 2017, I learned that despite taking both Berberine AND Bergamot, my LDL-P and my Small LDL-P both bumped up after enjoying a week of my mom’s home cooking while she stayed with us.

When I retested a week after my folks left and I was able to get my diet back on track, while continuing both Berberine and Bergamot, my LDL-P came back into the 1700 range while my Small LDL-P ticked higher to almost 800.… Read More

Cholesterol Case Study by Lipidologist, Dr. Tara Dall

Posted on August 10, 2017October 13, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

I was poking around Dr. Tara Dall’s website one day and came across this case study that surpisingly reminded me of my own case (I’ve uploaded a copy here just in case her link breaks).

Dr. Dall is the lipidologist I visited to help me review my cholesterol situation. Here are links to the posts documenting my consultation with her:

In fact, it was through my meeting with her that I learned that I am both a cholesterol hyper-synthesizer AND a hyper-absorber, and that I have an ApoE 3/4 genotype. … Read More

Cholesterol Update with Berberine AND Bergamot, April 2017

Posted on August 7, 2017July 29, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

In the last episode of “Let’s Tinker With The BJJ Caveman’s Cholesterol,” I took Bergamot 500 mg 2x/day and saw that it brought my Small LDL-P to 407 which is the lowest it’s ever been and the fist time it was in the normal range of <527 nmol/L. My LDL-P remained in the high range of 1600-2000 at 1756 nmol/L.

So now we’ve seen what my cholesterol looks like with a dietary intervention alone (eating Whole 30), with Berberine 500 mg 2x per day, and with Berberine 500 mg 3x per day.… Read More

Cholesterol Update with Bergamot, March 2017

Posted on June 20, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Moving forward with my efforts to identify non-Statin ways to lower my cholesterol I experimented with using Bergamot 500 mg twice a day. This was a component of what I did when I finally got my LDL-P to under 1500 and small LDL-P to under 600:

Did My Anti-Cholesterol Gameplan Work? YES

Most recently I’ve been testing the effects of various dosages of Berberine, here are links to my most recent posts:

Cholesterol Update September 2016 – My only intervention was eating Whole 30
Cholesterol Update with Berberine, January 2017 – Taking 500 mg of Berberine twice a day
Cholesterol Update after Increasing the Dose of Berberine, February 2017 – Taking 500 mg of Berberine three times a day

Next, I wanted to see what using Bergamot alone would do to my cholesterol. … Read More

Cholesterol Update after Increasing the Dose of Berberine, February 2017

Posted on May 8, 2017June 11, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Remember how I said that I was planning to shorten the period between blood tests to around 2 weeks to make it easier to adhere to whatever experiment I was working on because whenever I aimed for a full 30 days life managed to get in the way?

Well life got in the way this time too. I had a family emergency that required immediate travel out of the country which threw a wrench in whatever blood tests I had planned.

Despite having to book last minute tickets and arrange for last minute visa’s… a small part of my brain was still keeping track of my cholesterol experiment.… Read More