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I just completed almost a full year (over 11 months) no red meat - only poultry and seafood as far as "animal flesh."
...I didn't see any change in anything between a year ago's results, and this year's.

I did a similar thing and had a similar result. Let me educate you. The whole cholesterol thing has pretty much been debunked. More recent studies have shown that your diet, in the long term, has little influence on your cholesterol numbers. Also those lipid panel numbers don't mean much either. There are more advanced tests like cholesterol particle density/size that are more significant. But if you're really worried about your heart health go see a cardiologist and have a nuclear imaging/stress test done and be done with it. IMO anyone around 40 or over should consider doing it at least once.

In my experience fish/krill oil at 1.2-1.4g a day will lower my triglycerides, but a recent study showed that fish oil did not reduce the incidents of heart attacks... so we are essentially chasing our tails. Also in my personal experience I've found regular exercise will improve cholesterol numbers a bit, but again... are these numbers actually significant?? Just for fun look up what happens when your total cholesterol is under 160 after the age of 80... no bueno!

I take all those supplements, as you might know from the pictures I've posted of all those bottles lining up the cabinet tops in the Vegas hotel suites, but if they do work, they would only work in the long term as you allude.

Regular exercise is definitely an anti-ager if vigorous enough. However, sports related injuries do take longer to heal as we get older. When I was 20 years old I could work out too hard to the point where I couldn't even lift my arm because I had tweaked my elbow joint in some bad way, and then 24 hours later...nothing. If I inadvertently injure myself to that point today while lifting weights, it will definitely take more than a day to recover.

I'll look into the test you mention and about whether - low cholesterol is a bad thing over age 80? There is actually next to no heart disease history on both sides of my family, so it's not something I am "worried" about, but still, I like to monitor my health.

Given that life insurance companies hang their hats on at least the T. Chol/HDL Ratio, I wouldn't say that those lipid tests mean nothing.