A friend is his early 50's is struggling with weight as well. Our food is the enemy, everything on the shelves is making us sicker. Granted, poor choices are part of it. Hiw does someone who barely has time to make a sandwich turn it around?
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Cholesterol goes to areas of damage. The body makes it and sends it there. If you have damaged arteries from a garbage diet your cholesterol will go up.
It’s like blaming the fireman for a fire. Statins get rid of the firemen. “Defund the firemen!”
Been keto then carnivore for a year now. Lost all extra weight the first 6 weeks and can see my abs for the first time. I eat when I’m hungry. The only tricky part is getting enough FAT because it seems weird even though I know intellectually fat is good it’s tough overriding the programming. Most carnivores will see cholesterol go down on a carnivore diet when they are carrying a lot of weight. Once you start to get lean it will go above recommended levels to support fat adaption. This is healthy.
The “lean mass hyper responder” experiment showed 100 ketogenic dieters with 5 years on the diet were followed for a year had super high cholesterol (some HDL above 500) with zero arterial plaque, low triglycerides and higher HDL. They were checked for plaque again over a year. All good!
We have been lied to about diet.
I'm 57 and I've had High Cholesterol all my life, since before they could designate between HDL and LDL. My HDL had always been high. My doctors still tried to get me to take statins. I did once for about 3 months. I felt terrible and stopped them against my doctors orders. My cholesterol had always stayed around 250. Recently my doctor ordered CT scans of my heart and arteries. They came back almost completely clear! I was in disbelief after being told since I was a young child that I would probably die of a heart attack one day! Granted, I try to eat fresh, whole foods as much as I can, and I use real butter, eat bacon and eggs, use olive or peanut oils, but I also eat poorly at times. Anyway, just wanted to share my story. I was amazed at my good test results. But guess what? The cardiologist still wanted me to start injectable statins, and my doctor was angry that I didn't follow his advice. Now I'm looking for a new doctor. She also pushed the vax and could not believe I refused to get any of them. I pray RFK Jr. can turn things around for us. We need more holistic doctors.