Tips to Biohack a workup for Life Insurance?

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Anything to help with cholesterol levels or other advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Eating low carb will help these numbers. Mine have improved drastically for the positive.

Thanks, guys. I don’t have it scheduled yet. Don’t want to wait too long, but want to give whatever I try long enough to work. Would a 48 or 72 fast be beneficial in any way? Upping the dosage on any particular vitamin/supplements?

Are you in bad shape?

Do you know exactly what they're looking for? I haven't done one since circa 2007.

Chances are it's bullshite metrics, even as bad as "total cholesterol," but at least an across the board "LDL is bad."

Liver enzymes? I'd definitely teetotal awhile obviously. No added sugar at at all. No fruit juice.

If they do the insulin resistance score then your triglycerides will be key. Exercise. Fasting and time restricted feeding will help you numbers generally.

But I would do the test in the afternoon or at least not early am. The glucose-sparing effect is typically kicking most in the am and can cause artificially Hugh blood glucose numbers (they may rate you pre-diabetic).

Cinnamon supplements or Ceylon cinnamon in tea can lower blood sugar.

Your serum cholesterol fluctuates also so you could show "high" LDL in one test and then normal the next. It's too bad they put so much weight on that poor proxy, but they do, so I would get an idea of your range.

While I'm a proponent of saturated fat, some people do have an LDL response so it may be good to concentrate on monounsaturates (avocado, olive oil, algae oil, macadamias).

A high quality fish oil or salmon roe for good PUFA (omega, 3s).

There's basically no direct correlation between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol so eggs are a good food source leading up to your test.