Cholesterol and Keto

(Shirley M) #1

I have been doing Keto since June 27th and my cholesterol level LDL was a little high in March. I read contradictory articles that keto will raise my HDL which will help prevent heart disease while others say high fat is bad for your heart. I stay on the precautionary side and try not to eat red meat (that much)but I do eat cheese and eggs everyday. I am getting blood work done on a few weeks and curious if my LDL got worse and HDL got better…maybe they balance each other out :thinking: Does anyone have any information on this? Thank you. :blush:

(John) #2

Lots of info everywhere, check the science area. Fat you eat doesn’t = fat in your blood, so ignore all that, and eat all the red meat you want. While they say HDL and LDL and good and bad, not all LDL is really bad, you have to know whether you have big fluffy LDL or very dense LDL, the latter of which is harmful. The best indicator is TRIG/HDL so that is what you need to look at, and compare to other time periods.

(Tammy Kidd) #3

This^^^^

(Shirley M) #4

That sounds like a great plan (eating more red meat :yum:and checking my TRIG/HDL). Thank you for your informative response :blush:

(Brad) #5
(Nick) #6

Why are you worried about your LDL levels? Even with BS pharma data, the higher your cholesterol levels, as a woman, the healthier you are. A woman only really needs to worry about cholesterol if her levels are too low.

See Ivor Cummins’s presentations for the utter nonsense that LDL is as an independent variable for heart danger.

(James storie) #7

Also, read Jimmy Moore and Eric Westman’s book cholesterol clarity. It should iron out a few wrinkles! Plainly stated, we’ve been lied to for a long time.

(Teresa Driver) #8

n=1 here, but my HDL went up 33 points in 2 years while my total cholesterol held steady at 233. My cholesterol ratios are “ideal”. YMMV.

(Shirley M) #9

@bokkiedog thank you!! I will check that out :blush:

(Shirley M) #10

Thank you @jamestorie that is very interesting. Yeah I always see conflicting information. I appreciate your response :blush:

(Shirley M) #11

Thank you @Bradeo. This is a very informative website! I appreciate it :blush:

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #12

THIS THIS THIS

(Nick) #13

Even the good/bad LDL hypothesis looks like it’s fading away under a weight of contradictory evidence. Ivor shows quite convincingly, with the work of Kraft and others, that whatever sort of LDL particle you have, it only really begins to matter when your arteries are already being ravaged by IR.

And a very effective way to deal with IR is, of course, keto. So if your keto diet increases your LDL, but slashes the effects of insulin resistance, you’re moving into a safe zone; however, if you undertake another dietary strategy which decreases your average number of LDL particles, but increases your use of insulin, blood glucose etc, the you’re are entering the danger zone.

Finally, bear in mind the experiments of Dave Feldman, where he shows you can massively change your cholesterol levels just be eating little (leading to high blood cholesterol) or lots (leading to low cholesterol!) three days before the blood test. So this isn’t some stable indicator, but is up and down like a bride’s nightie, so to speak, and can often mean little more than that you happened to be feasting or fasting in the last few days.