Next time your stubborn Doc endlessly tries to focus on LDL and cholesterol and wants to talk you into accepting a Statin, you may want to confront him with this new study.
https://openheart.bmj.com/content/8/2/e001680
The high risk factors in the above table are all diet-related. The come from the propagated Westzern idea of a balanced diet that ocndlues all comßionents, focusses on palnts, and is depicted as the usual classic food pyramide.
To me the food pyramides have become graphics showing how to damage yourself in the best and most efficient way.
I learned this from the last years: when your triglycerides are normal and in the green range, and your HDL is not too low, then you can safely almost ignore high LDL levels, even the more so the more you are on a fatty ketogenic or carnivore diet (and excludindg scenarios in which you also must take into account an own individual specific health condition that sets you apart from the statistical "normal").
Also consider that statins' benefits are severely under doubt already, and are measured in lifespan extensions in the range of just 2-4 days over many years (in other words they are statistically not significant and thus are random noise) - paid for with tremendous side effects reducing your health, namely the much feared brain fog, cognitive and mental degeneration, and others.
More and more responsible doctors categorically reject to prescribe statins.
Statins are a major money maker for Big Pharma.
Now add 1 and 1 together.