Hi, so ive been on Keto for almost 2 weeks. Randomly i‘ve had to have a blood work done. And i was really shock that My Cholesterol is 266 LDL high as 166 as well as uric acid. I‘m 5“2 ,currently 49kgs i work out 3-4x a week HIIT and i just really eat 2-3 eggs a day a day and fish, poultry and veg salads… any thoughts on this? Anybody who also had this experience?
Help (freaking out)
Shortstuff
(Allie)
#2
It’s advised against doing any bloods in at least the first six months of keto purely because you tend to get crazy results like this. Relax, wait, focus on how you feel.
islandlight
(Laurie)
#3
The idea that cholesterol in food (e.g., eggs) causes high cholesterol in humans has been mostly debunked in recent decades.
There are some exceptions. If heart disease “runs in your family,” you could have a fairly rare (1 in 250) inherited condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, in which the body cannot process or eliminate LDLs in the normal manner. Even then, food and lifestyle changes have little effect, and medication might be prescribed.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#4
And even with familial hypercholesterolaemia, the people who develop cardiovascular disease, have heart attacks, and die are the ones with variations of fibrinogen and clotting factor VIII that make their blood more likely to clot. That’s about half the people with FH. The other half live perfectly normal lives and die at perfectly normal ages of other things. This has been known since the 1960’s.
There are other data to show that cholesterol cannot be causing heart disease. For example, did you know that well over half the people who show up at the emergency room with their first heart attack have either normal or low cholesterol? There are also a number of large government-funded studies that fail to show any correlation with cholesterol levels and cardiovascular disease. In fact, some of those studies have shown a negative correlation (i.e., heart disease goes up as cholesterol goes down). While a positive correlation does not prove that something is the cause of something else, a negative correlation is pretty decent proof that it is not the cause.
We have known for a century that cholesterol is present in arterial plaque, and the conclusion was that the cholesterol must be the problem. However, more recent research has shown that cholesterol in plaque is part of the body’s effort to repair arterial damage, so that blaming plaque on cholesterol is very much like blaming fires on the presence of fire engines.
Eddie
(Ed)
#5
@Jeanel_Deur
There some good videos in link bellow explaining why you should not freak out when you see high numbers of cholesterol. Hope that helps