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Low-Below Bottom of range LDL-How to INCREASE LDL

Yes you read that right.  My wife has LOW cholesterol and below the bottom of the range LDL.

I have tried searching on-line and the search engines only bring back results to LOWER LDL, despite my entering in "increase" or "raise".

My wife also has pituitary issues.  Thus her hormones are a mess.

As the pituitary can't really order the body to produce hormones, and even if it could, all steroid hormones are "built" from the foundation of Cholesterol. So without sufficient cholesterol her body can't really make much hormone either.

Dietary eating of fat and other things may have very marginal effect since most cholesterol in food is not absorbed by the body anyhow.

So does anyone know how she might be able to RAISE and INCREASE her LDL?

What little I have found on the web about too LOW of cholesterol indicates that it is rare and basically say it is a problem, but nothing really about what to do about it to increase it.  Also most reasons for low cholesterol seem to be genetic, either to fail to produce it in the liver and/or fail to be able to absorb it in the intestines.

So what should she do?
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