np: Exact same story here. Perfect weight, excellent diet, plenty of exercise, low cholesterol all my life...until menopause. I had various tests and found I have high LipA (this is 100% genetic) and a small amount of plaque on the calcium scan. Now on Crestor. I don't know why people resist statins, they save lives.

My LDL’s and triglycerides went up.

My diet consisted of 2 HB eggs for breakfast or 1 piece of sourdough and a banana or apple

Lunch is a salad or rice and chicken or soup and 1/2 sandwich

Dinner is a meat (chicken, pork, steak or salmon) roasted veggies and either rice or roasted potatoes.

Oh because once a week

Snack is nuts (rarely) or pretzels and hummus.

I do cardio 2 x a week for 2 hours.

I do yoga 2x a week with light weight training.

I was doing 20 pushups a day until I hurt my shoulder.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 52 and have blood pressure like 110/70 and my cholesterol levels are normal. We do not dine out much, eat very little meat, and mostly don't eat dairy. No processed/foods out of a box either.

Me too, I don’t eat out, 5 veg a day, no meat, no dairy. No processed foods. But Covid left me with sky high cholesterol. No family hx. My doctor says she is seeing many similar cases.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 52 and have blood pressure like 110/70 and my cholesterol levels are normal. We do not dine out much, eat very little meat, and mostly don't eat dairy. No processed/foods out of a box either.

Same age and same for me. I am not through menopause yet, however. This was also the case for my mother... until she hit her 70s, when both her BP and cholesterol shot up. Menopause catches up to all of us...

Anonymous wrote:I'm 52 and have blood pressure like 110/70 and my cholesterol levels are normal. We do not dine out much, eat very little meat, and mostly don't eat dairy. No processed/foods out of a box either.

What do you eat? What is a typical day for you?

People forget that cholesterol is the starting compound for all hormones. So if you are producing less hormones like estrogen it's got to go somewhere...

It went up for my husband but not me. It’s just old age.

I'm 52 and have blood pressure like 110/70 and my cholesterol levels are normal. We do not dine out much, eat very little meat, and mostly don't eat dairy. No processed/foods out of a box either.