First off, if your doctor thinks LDL cholesterol is "bad," your doctor hasn't been keeping up with the medical research over the last 30 years. LDL by itself isn't bad at all, in fact the higher a person's LDL the longer they live on average. What's bad are high triglycerides and low HDL, and the *size* of your LDL particles. Low HDL, high triglycerides, and small LDL particles are caused by eating excess carbohydrates and industrially refined seed oils, and it doesn't matter where the carbohydrates come from. It can be fruit, Snickers bars, brown rice, or whole grain bread, it's all going to cause the same problems. "Good" carbohydrates are a myth. No matter how complex a carbohydrate is, it's still just a chain of monosaccharides. The minute those carbohydrates enter your mouth your body starts breaking them down into monosaccharides (i.e., glucose, fructose, and galactose). That means by the time a carbohydrate hits your bloodstream it's sugar just the same as if you'd eaten a bowl of candy. It may enter your blood a little more slowly but that doesn't matter because it's the amount that matters, not how long it takes. CHOLESTEROL PRIMER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdgS3PuSuyg Eating a ketogenic or carnivore diet will reverse your numbers dramatically. My triglycerides went from 120 to 55 and my HDL went from 42 to 95. It's extremely rare to have an "inversion" where HDL is higher than triglycerides. My doctor was so dumbfounded by my blood tests that he referred me to an endocrinologist for investigation. He cannot accept that I got this way eating ribeye, bacon, butter, and eggs every day. These are some good channels to get started learning about keto or carnivore health benefits: https://www.youtube.com/@lowcarbdownunder https://www.youtube.com/@KenDBerryMD https://www.youtube.com/@dietdoctor https://www.youtube.com/@drjasonfung EDIT - I just read one of your responses where you say you're fat right now. Another benefit of eating ketogenic or carnivore is that you can eat when you're hungry and eat until you're full and the pounds will still fall off. I lost 75 lbs in 8 months and loved every minute of it. But weight loss is just the tip of the iceburg. There are so many health benefits to being in ketosis that you really want to do it for the rest of your life if you want to live a long, healthy life. Just don't get your keto advice from shitty internet forums (I'm looking at you reddit /r/keto). Many of those forums have been hijacked by people who don't actually believe a ketogenic diet works and they spend their time advising people that the only thing that works is starvation (calorie counting) and that ketosis isn't important in weight loss (why the fuck is it called a **keto**-genic diet if it's not supposed to be one that **gen**erates **keto**nes?).