I'm sorry you're both having problems with your cholesterol. It's a scary thing.

Exercise and meds will help your hubby to lower his bad cholesterol. Eating anything with oats will help lower it, too, but you've got to watch your carb intake with that.

Vitamin B or a replacement for the foods that have it will increase the good cholesterol.

My take of "geneticly caused high cholesterol" is that your system inherited the malfunction from your parents. One or both of them had the malfunction and passed it on to you. It could ALSO be your diet but that's not genetic. I very seldom eat the same things my family of origin ate, but I still have both conditions. They seem to come hand in hand. Even if your bad cholesterol is good, you still need the good cholesterol to be at a good range.

Learn from what your hubby has to do to improve his total cholesterol and you do the same.

TC