Thanks for your thoughts and reply brother. It's interesting re Sugar but probably I agree on this one. Ray Peat wouldn't if he was still alive I believe as from what I've read his philosophy was different. But to each his own and like you say we are still learning as we are still in the dark when it comes to this. I believe a huge part of it is hidden from us because of the big corruption in this field. Like I've read about statins that you can't get the research and experimental data going back years which considers the side effects, but you can easily get the data for the benefits. I will try to find and post the source fwiw.
Interesting that you have a nice HDL but also you were eating a lot of stuff that suppose to raise it I believe as well? Ofc genetics play a large role here as well. For example I pretty much always had HDL around 1mmol/L which I believe converts to sub 40 or 38.67mg/dL to be precise. I've tried every diet manipulation I could think off over the course of 20 years and it never went higher. No bueno. Last year my Total Cholesterol was 135 / LDL 73 / HDL 36.73 / TRIG 54 FWIW eating a high-card diet and not fasted as I had no idea they will test Lipids and GP didnt tell me about the tests we gonna run. Now since I eat only Beef and minimal carbs if any at all some days my Total is higher at 166 / HDL 37.51 / Serum Cholesterol/HDL ratio: 4.4 and Se non HDL cholesterol 3.3mmol/L FWIW and also not fasted lol Unbelievable how they run tests and doesn't even care for fasted/non fasted state at the NHS. So anyway thats the data I have but need to run proper tests in fasted state so will do them in the future. And not much I can take home from all this TBF. Maybe anything you got to add or suggest?
You're a big fella compared to me and your numbers look good so kudos. Keep doing what you doing brother. Regarding driving LDL < 50 I'm not sure as well. AnaBolicDoc looks to be very serious and caring for his patients. I talked with him only once but it was a great experience. I like him 
Will try talking with him more in the next MAN2MAN meetings when time allows.
Always happy to read your thoughts and looking forward in many more great discussions.
Regards,
Bel
