Your diet sounds excellent. The cholesterol problem is puzzling. Maybe
it is too much omega3, like you said. I haven't come across the thing
about fish oil raising LDL. All Atkins says about overuse of omega3 is
that if you take over 5000 mg per day for six months you will oxidize
the fats in your red blood cells. If you want to figure out how much
you've been getting don't forget to factor in the flax seed you
mentioned. Very high levels of omega3 doesn't seem in line with
paleolithic principles considering that only about 2% of the fat in
grass-fed bovines is omega3, the bulk of the fat being stearic and
oleic. But on the other hand, they say that Inuit have very low levels
of heart trouble and very high levels of omega3 (which makes them very
prone to bruising and bleeding, though). They're not really paleo, or
maybe they're an extreme example. One thing I've been wondering about is
how damaged the fats are in canned fish, and in fish oil supplements,
which could be a factor. I haven't been able to find any information on
that. I imagine the Inuit get pretty fresh marine fats.

If you find that your omega3 levels weren't all that high maybe you'll
want to get retested in case there was an error. Kind of expensive,
though. Good luck. I would be interested to hear what you figure out.

Adrienne Smith wrote:
>
> Thank you for responding -- I truly appreciate you taking the time to give
> your thoughts/suggestions.
>
> I've posted my diet and supplements before but here it goes again -- it's
> basically:
>
> Tons of fish, especially sardines; only organic chicken, ostrich, grass fed
> beef and buffalo, organic eggs, lots of non starchy veggies, olive oil,
> macadamia nuts, 3 tablespoons of freshly ground flaxseeds for the fiber, tiny
> amounts of berries and an occassional fruit binge which I will stop now that
> it's winter, lots of green tea and water.  Supplements:
> multi-vit/anti-oxidant, extra E, extra C, L-Carnitine, alpha lipoic acid,
> co-q10 and extra fish oil, MSM, cal/mag when I remember.  I was also taking
> others like pantethine, borage, L-lysine, cysteine, biotin and extra b
> complex which I have since stopped.  I am really trying to taper my
> supplement regimine down.  I had been taking some of the aforementioned to
> see if they would help with hair loss but they have not so I stopped them.
>    Since my last post, I've been searching on the internet
> and found some studies suggesting that fish oil can actually raise LDL.
> Perhaps I was really overdoing it ie eating oily fish and daily sardines plus
> supplementing with fish oil supplements.  Maybe the extra omega 3 was useful
> when I was losing the bulk of the weight I wanted to lose but now it's
> overkill.  Thoughts?