Any ideas on lowering LDL number?

Keto baw

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ht but maybe 10 lbs only.

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You need to look at your BMI. It'll tell you how many pounds over weight you are.

Next you need to be more worried about your Triglycerides to HDL ratio. It needs to be under 2

FWIW, I’m of similar age, not over-weight, actually a bit underweight by current norms, but my LDL hovered around 169 yearly since 2015. Did not want to take a satin if I could avoid it, so in discussion with my PCP, decided in late 2020, to see if I could lower LDL by change in diet and increased physical activity.

I made simple changes in diet, going from whole milk to 1%, eliminated consumption of ice cream (used to drink a milkshake daily), and significantly increased my consumption fiber - high fiber cereal for breakfast, increased consumption of legumes, avocados, and liberal use of olive oil in cooking - items I always ate and liked, I just increased the frequency with which I ate them.

I did not take any additional supplements, outside of normal vitamin supplements. In hindsight I may have reduced carbs but I wasn’t counting macros and wasn’t focusing on it. Anyway, with those dietary changes I dropped LDL 42 units, from 169 to 127, in 1 year. Even my PCP was impressed by the drop. Total Cholesterol declined to the higher end of normal, and HDL. VLDL. and Triglycerides all solid normals.

Though I consider myself active, I was remiss in 2021 in not increasing my exercise activity.

The 127 is still a bit higher than I’d personally like, so this past Feb I started resistance training and cardio, in addition to maintaining the dietary changes, to be more consistent throughout the year in physical activity - I’ve not had my lipid blood panel done yet this year, but scheduled for next month.