I'll give it a try synthetine.
I am a old fart and tolerate meds very well. I even take a statin.
I hear ya about HDL last blood work my HDL was 60 so I want to keep that up.
My total ldl was 85.
I dont' know if a 8-12 wk run of Anavar will kill HDL to bad. I hope not.
I am just experimenting.
I lived through the statin craze, the bribing of certain research groups and the subsequent refuting research decades later that showed almost no positive effect. I am 99.998% certain they are a scam and worse yet, they cause way way more disease than they effectually treat. Unless you are genetically hyperlipidemic I would seriously think about them. They compromise all your cells in your body and all your steroid biosynthetic pathways. But anyways,.. that's something we all have to deal with eventually b/c pretty much all PCPs will thrust them upon us all as we age since at some point total cholesterol will go over 200 and HDL will dip under 40 and the test values keep getting adjusted to favor their use.
Myself, I am 58 this month and fat loss is more difficult for sure. For me it's about more cardio and less calories and cycling in low carb days and dropping fats low periodically. The cardio is the hard part scince as we age arthritis becomes an issue.
The other part is the hormones. When I am on just doctor prescribed tRT at 100 mg/d fat loss is way way harder even though my total test is 800 ng/dL and SHBG etc is in range. Even if you were elite the facts of aging cannot be denied. So to get that effect it is necessary, in my opinion, to add in some form of attenuated androgen. After the last several years of bloodwork I know the following AAS are mild on my system: Masteron, Primobolan, NPP. Test is in but no more than 300 mg/w tops. As we age we make more estrogen so that is a limiter. Aromatase inhibitors are bad news for me and many other aged AAS users. Bad for bones, lipids, joints, sexual function etc. I use them sparingly and would rather use a SERM whilst keeping estrogen close to normal range just through titration of aromatizing AAS and Test.
Orals will tip the lipids but you know my thoughts on that. I think the danger with lipids skewing is more of a measure of liver stress than it is the damage that skewed lipids themselves cause. They will cause cholestatis and that is a problem for your liver removing cholesterol and steroid entities in the bile. So orals probably at our age are something for short term use and test weeks after the=ir use to see how you handle them. Personally Anavar and Turanabol are OK for me short term 4-8 weeks.
GH axis drugs: Definitely you are having issues with GH, insulin, metformin, Mk etc. Personally, I use GHRPs, low low dose GH (1 iu EOD for anti-aging) and that's been about it for the last couple of years. Seems that you ahve issues with things that distrust for many hours. The GH pulse is probably 4 hours max dispersed from subQ. So lower dose will give flatter curve and may be less disruptive. The GHRPs are fast in and out but have a ripple like effect in pulsatile release of endogenous GH. So the pattern is very close to natural. That might be more simpatico with your biology. HGH frag works for some people and others not so much so that's on you to figure out.
So in the end, for me to drop 4% BF as I get under 15% is tough and it takes 4 hours of cardio a week, dipping the calories until the scale moves (viewed week to week averages), adding in enough anabolics to keep the aged androgen pathways moving, using some HGH axis modifiers to get the axis at youthful levels and the rest is just discipline.
My 2cents