statins+ keto mechanisms?

Been reading cholesterol code lately and its making me think a little bit about the standard about the L-Energy model.

From what I undersatand
LCHF diet-> increased LDL due to LDL using fat more efficiently (LDL picks up tri’s in blood)
I am curious if statins stop your liver from producing the enzyme that makes LDL → pick up tris

Do statins then affect your ability to lose fat, or contribute to your insulin being higher on a LCHF diet? How are tris being shuttled out and used as energy with a statin LCHF diet?

Mechanism of statins here is kind of confusing for me, as a non-medical person

Statins do not impact the ability to lose fat.

Statins inhibit cells’ ability to synthesize their own cholesterol, which leads them to up-regulate LDL receptors on their surface to pull LDL particles (and their cholesterol content) out of the blood and into the cell.

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