Your 7-day cholesterol lowering protocol

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1. Eat less. Eat significantly fewer calories than you normally would (staying low-carb, high-fat) for 3 days.
2. Get blood test #1. Get a cholesterol test on the morning of day 4. Be sure you have nothing but water for 12 hours before your test. You always want to be fasted before blood tests; eating food in that window can influence the results.
3. Eat a lot of fat. Starting right after your day 3 cholesterol test, eat as much fat as you can for days 4, 5, and 6. Still keep carbs low, but add fat to everything. Some people go as high as 4,000 – 5,000 calories a day.
4. Get blood test #2. Get your second and final cholesterol test on the morning of day 7. Again, make sure you fast for 12 hours before the test.

According to the results almost everyone has seen so far, your cholesterol should be higher when you eat less fat, and much lower when you eat as much fat as you possibly can.

One note: Apparently Brain Octane Oil and coffee can both mess with your results, so take a break from Bulletproof Coffee during the protocol. Don’t worry; your morning cup will feel all the more powerful when you start again.

Whatever your cholesterol test results, be sure you keep the data and send it to Dave Feldman. He’s always collecting and compiling results from people, and he says on his site that he hopes to use them to get a clinical study funded soon. That would be huge.

If you want to learn more about healthy cholesterol levels, check out this article on why everything you know about cholesterol is wrong.

To dig deeper into the cholesterol drop protocol, take a look at Dave Feldman’s site, Cholesterol Code. He has great articles on how cholesterol works that are worth your time to read.