A low-carbohydrate diet can lead to an increase in serum cholesterol, which may be due to increased fat trafficking and co-transport with cholesterol in lipoproteins, rather than solely increased absorption.

“a lot of people go on a low-carb diet and they know they're bringing out their total amount of dietary cholesterol who then see a likewise increase in their serum cholesterol the cholesterol in the blood naturally because it's intuitive come to the conclusion that must be because I am a hyper absorber I must be absorbing more cholesterol and I think in the course of this conversation this will help illustrate another reason why that may be the case because you made in fact be trafficking more fat as energy and therefore it may be ride-sharing with cholesterol in these lipoproteins”