Cleaning Up My Medical Chart

(Mel) #21

Amazing! Congrats!

(Todd Batitis) #22

Thanks for all the kind words and support everyone!

(Sharon) #23

Life long Liberal/Progressive Atheist here. Now Carnivore and I love itl

(Jarod King) #24

Congratulations! Same thing happened to me about 6 - 8 months ago. Prior to Keto, I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. I went in for my Cardiac Calcium Scan, and the results were ZERO (I’m almost 50 years old). So they pulled in a Cardiac Specialist from Stanford University and had me come back and do the test again along with a Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Test (CIMT). Again, results were perfect. When I told the Doc it was just from Fasting and Keto, he was shocked. Told me to keep doing what I was doing…though he is even more shocked by my elevated cholesterol (TOTAL = 500 now). But since my HS-CRP, Homocysteine, and Hba1c are all optimal now, and my lipids are at optimal sizing, I think I’m probably good to go. Cholesterol can’t stick to your arteries when you have no inflammation!

(Kirk Wolak) #25

My Cholesterol DROPPED, despite eating POUNDS of bacon…
But I told my doctor. Even if it went up, who cares?
What is more important, my GOOD Calcium Score or my “bad” cholesterol score?
And, like you, losing 100lbs and improving EVERY OTHER Blood marker.
Sure, things could still get better.

A1C of 4.5… AWESOME!

I asked, should I trade in the 6 great markers for a lower cholesterol? Would he?
He smiled, and said keep at it!

(lloyd hart) #26

Interesting Jarod, my triglycerides are the only issue im having. When i started Keto i lost weight pretty quick but i am only doing Keto to reduce triglycerides. They went down to 134 and since just going up higher and higher into the high 400’s despite exercise and eating well. Then they’ll go down again and fly up which is frustrating as i’m trying to work out exactly what is spiking them. I know alcohol does, i tested that theory after a few vodka cocktails and wow that defo spikes them… my blood pressure perfect, very active, 190Lb, its just real bad triglycerides. I throw away the statins Jan 1st and committed to no alcohol and carbs to see what happens and everything went well apart from the triglycerides so i’m half tempted to go back on them.

(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #27

Lipid numbers are a lot more volatile than commonly believed. Check out www.cholesterolcode.com for more information about fat metabolism. Dave Feldman has done some research that you may find interesting. If you are one of his lean-mass hyper-responders you will be able to manipulate your numbers by eating the right way for five or six days before the blood draw.

There are also a number of researchers who are challenging the idea that cholesterol has anything to do with the risk for cardiovascular disease. PubMed has a couple of recent papers by Uffe Ravnskov and David Diamond that you might want to check out.

(Bob M) #28

More to Paul’s point, Dave Feldman’s theory is that “cholesterol” is primarily an energy transport mechanism, which is what makes them (it?) so volatile. I too have found widely variable cholesterol values. These are examples (the highlighted one was taken after 4.5 days of fasting):

Cholvals

(Sherry Koske) #29

Way to go!

(JohnnyD) #30

Great results…AND great doctor. So far my PCPs have not been open to a keto approach to diabetic DX. Thanks for sharing.

(Annzie) #31

Do you know if your cholesterol is the fluffy kind? I plan on getting mine tested for that. Apparently there is a fluffy cholesterol that is not bad. Have you heard of it?

(Todd Batitis) #32

The test you are referring to is the NMR Lipoprotein Panel with Lipid and IR Markers. It uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure the number and size of the lipoprotein particles, instead of simply their cholesterol or triglyceride content. What it does is go beyond simply a measurement of how much LDL you have and breaks it down farther to let you see what the pattern of the actual particle size is for the LDL. That size indicates whether you are more predominantly carrying LDL Pattern A (larger, fluffier LDL that doesn’t cause a problem) or LDL Pattern B (small, dense that is a problem with atherosclerosis).

Pattern B is a range from 19.0 to 20.5nm while Pattern A is 20.6 to 23.0 so ideally you want your LDL Size to be greater than 20.5nm.

My LDL size is transitioning from B to A since starting Intermittent Fasting and Keto (started in June and July respectively though). While medicated on Crestor during the April, June and September test, my LDL particle size was 20.0, 19.9 and 20.0 respectively (Pattern B - Not Good). After stopping the statin (which I will never take again) my particle size is up to 20.9 (Pattern A - Fluffy - Good).

You can see some more discussion on cholesterol numbers and some weird stuff going on with mine at another thread I started a few weeks back. You will find it at:

https://www.ketogenicforums.com/t/cholesterol-numbers-from-nmr-trends-uggg/73397

(Annzie) #33

Strangely enough my family was in some of the first research done on cholesterol. They took everyone in our tenth grade classes in several highschools in Houston and did family history and blood work. My family has hereditary high cholesterol so they stayed with us for about 5 or 6 years taking blood on regular basis. Only my grandfather was alive at that time, and he participated for about three years because he lived in another town. Anyway, we were all put on low cholesterol diets and I ate that way most of my life. It made no difference whatsoever. I hit 40, my cholesterol went through the roof.

My grandfather died of a heart attack at 75 doing what he loved. Building. Literally died with a hammer in his hand. My mother died from heart valve replacement complications at 78. I have Fibromyalgia so if I die sooner than later, that is ok with me because I live every day in pain. That’s why I am on keto. To try and stop the pain. I don’t know what I think about high cholesterol. But mine is over 300 right now. We’ll see if the keto can bring it down because eating low cholesterol only takes it down to 290.

Annie

(Annzie) #34

PS Thanks for those details about the fluffy cholesterol. Very useful!!
Annie

(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #35

Prof. David Diamond is of the opinion that the people with familial hypercholesterolemia who die young are the ones with variants of fibrinogen and clotting factor VIII that make their blood clot more readily. And of course, a high-carbohydrate diet doesn’t help, because glycated hemoglobin also makes blood clot more readily.

Thanks for sharing your story, and I’m glad you found keto.

(Todd Batitis) #36

Agreed, and with regards to the fibro, really look at doing what you can to reduce inflammation levels in your body. You can get an HS-CRP (High Sensative C-Reactive Protein) blood test to see where you are at. High levels of inflammation are factors in many things like fibromyalgia.

Keto will do this in many respects due to it being an overall anti-inflammatory way of eating but getting your Omega 6:3 ratio correct can help a lot. Omega 6’s are pro-inflammatory, 3’s are anti-inflammatory. This is also a blood test they can do to see where you are at currently. Ideally you want to shoot for a 1:1 ratio but that can be pretty tough. You want to get it at least to 4:1. With the typical western diet, people can be as high as 15:1. Even after simply going low carb in March and then switching to Keto in July, in September I was still at 10.5:1. After actively working to lower it for 3 months to get it down by cutting out as much Omega 6 sources as I could and boosting the Omega 3 sources, I was still at 8.2:1 so it is going to take a bit.

I know all of this is hijacking my own thread but you might want to look at this article: