Thank you guys for all the info!

Eat vegetables and meat. A little bit of butter and olive and avocado oil. No flour, no potatoes, no grain, no fruit.

Do that for 3 months and report back with labs. If cholesterol is still high, you've got a genetic condition.

My mother lowered hers by taking flax seed oil.

Regular exercise, avoid fried foods and cold cuts, take fish oil with omega-3, and try this https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Cholest-Off-Plus-Softgels/dp/B00BJV0CHU

X2 on the colest-off. Helped me lower mine with a little change in diet.

Take Metamucil, it works better than the drugs.

Diet and exercise alone never hardly touched my cholesterol levels. My liver just makes cholesterol ( genetic). Lipitor helped at 40 mg/ day or greater, but I couldn’t tolerate that dose with the side effects. I went down to 20 mg/ day, but that did very little for my numbers and I still had a little trouble with the side effects. Then my cardiologist put me on Repatha 140mg/ 2 weeks sureclick injectable and Lipitor 10 mg/ day. I exercise, but I eat anything and everything I want to and my total cholesterol is 79, LDL= 29, HDL=50 and triiglycerides =90. Most insurances will not cover Repatha until you prove intolerance to statins, so you have to jump through those hoops. It’s the magic bullet for me. Mine went from 269-350 range to the present level in a little over a month with Repatha+ 10 mg Lipitor with no diet.

Yep. One of the worst meds on the market for side effects.

Tickka Ticka got it right. Look up Dr. Ken Barry on Youtube he will tell you how to do it.