I've been on a ketogenic diet for 7+ years. That A1c you got qualifies you as being diabetic. I'm surprised you did not get insulin.
If you just think that everything you think you know about diet and health is wrong, you'd be correct. "Bad" "cholesterol" isn't bad for you and it's not "cholesterol". Fat from animals is good for you. Fat from plants is not.
Your A1c should be near 5. The only way to get there is to stop eating carbs. That's it. Fasting helps, but that takes a while to do.
I'd eat everything people said you can't eat. Bacon and eggs for breakfast. Red meat, particularly beef, which I think is the healthiest for you and the planet. Eat lots of meat, few vegetables if you can. Eliminating bread, potatoes, sweets, is a good way to start.
Yep. I have seen many testimonials to Keto. I have seen the entire documentary series "The Real Skinny on Fat".
"High" Cholesterol used to be 280, then 260, then 240, then 220, then 200. Now it's 180 I think. It's all to sell more drugs, and it's all Bullshyte. Same with Blood Pressure. First off, the reading is automatically high if your arm is on the arm rest. It needs to be hovering even with your Heart for an accurate reading. as far as "High" Blood pressure, it used to be 140, now it's magically 130 to sell more drugs.
The fun thing about High Cholesterol and High BP drugs is they do exactly that. They deplete your body of the nutrients that automatically keep your body in check. People are told they need drugs by "Doctors" that are trained in drugs by the drug companies. It is very rare to find an actual Doctor that knows anything about how the body works because the entire Medical school is sponsored and paid for by Pharma.
In the 50's, the owner of Crisco, Proctor and Gamble, paid the little known organization called the American Heart Association a little over $1M to say that their Crisco was good for people. That Million dollars was the best bribe in History, as it rings true today that they say Coconut Oil and Butter are bad, which is completely the opposite of the truth, and that Margarine, Corn, Soy, Safflower, Sunflower, Canola etc. oils are good, when they cause the epidemic disease.
There's a reason more than 70 percent of people in the US are Obese. It's the drugs and the diet.