Cholesterol Numbers After Six Years on a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet

By Dietdoctor @DietDoctor1

What happens to cholesterol numbers on a long-term high-fat diet?

My fellow Swede Tommy Runesson lost 200 pounds on an LCHF diet, starting six years ago. He continues to eat a very strict LCHF diet (examples can be seen daily on his blog) combined with some intermittent fasting.

So what happens to the cholesterol on this high-saturated-fat diet? Apparently only good things. Runessons has checked his levels every year and just published his six-year results:


Everything looking good!

Of course this is only one person, and it's only six years. What happens after that? I can tell you what happened to me:

My Health Markers After Eight Years on LCHF