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Trigs were fine. Overconsumption is certainly one more thing for me to look at.

Broda Barnes book [1] says, iirc, that high cholesterol levels are basically diagnostic of hypothyroidism. Usually people's superficial thyroid lab #'s look fine (TSH), but their body is not properly activating T4 -> T3.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=TJXf2ZqoxUIC

Are there some tests we can do to identify this issue?

Yes, when I demured on the statin it occurred to my doc to check thyroid function (seems the wrong way round to me). My levels were fine.

Define "fine"... reference levels of TSH for example are controversial [0]. The HUNT study in Norway (which followed 25,000 healthy Norwegians for 8 years) found death rates 69% higher amongst women with TSH 2.5-3.5 mIU/L than amongst those with TSH 0.5-1.4 mIU/L [1] (via [2]).

[0] http://tpauk.com/main/the-tsh-reference-range-wars/

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18443261?dopt=AbstractPlu...

[2] http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2010/07/thyroid-more-evidence-t...

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