My Cholesterol Hit A New High & Why I’m Ok With That
For the past 15 months, I’ve been eating a lot of saturated fat. Bacon, fried eggs, chicken in lard, rib eyes, etc. What has it done to my body?
On the outside I’ve lost 100 lbs. I no longer take any medication for blood pressure, gout, or cholesterol. I also no longer use a CPAP machine to sleep at night.
But ever since I started the ketogenic diet and eating this way everyone has told me it wasn’t good for me and it would kill me.
So before I started I had bloodwork done and I just recently did it again to compare the results.
My blood pressure is normal now despite upping my sodium intake these past 15 months as well. All of my other health markers were perfect except for one. Cholesterol. Here was my lipids panel
My test before had my numbers as follows (keep in mind I was on Lipitor cholesterol medicine at this point too):
Cholesterol - 287
Triglycerides - 90
HDL Cholesterol - 43
LDL Cholesterol - 226
They didn’t take my vLDL previously
Needless to say my doctor wants me back on Lipitor. I’m saying not so fast and I declined it.
On the surface, yes I’ve hit a new all time high with my cholesterol. But all of my numbers are good outside of the LDL.
One of the videos I found while researching high LDL is Dr. Berg’s video here:
As he says there is no such thing as bad cholesterol. Cholesterol is good for you and that’s why your body produces it. All of your cells need it.
Yes, cholesterol can plaque your arteries but it’s because it is repairing a problem there. High cholesterol does not mean you will get plaqued arteries.
The second reason I won’t be going back on Lipitor is because I’ve read and heard on many podcasts there is no reason EVER to take statins. They do more harm than good.
My thinking is this LDL will come down as will the triglycerides and the HDL will go up as I continue to lose weight and my body gets healthier. I’m banking on improving these numbers a year from now.
In the meantime, I think I can improve these numbers by starting to do some exercise. Nothing major but a short walk each day will be an improvement over what I currently do which is nothing.
Also, I’m going to switch from eating one meal a day to two meals just so I don’t get as much protein in one sitting. I think this will help the LDL in case I’m having the excess protein converted to glucose.
Please leave your thoughts below? Am I making a mistake? What would you do? If I don’t get back to you it’s because I’ve seized up!
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One thing I can say, go slow with anything that produce the bad cholesterol.
Fried food should be avoided.
Exercise should be your best friend !!
You said everything, just follow your heart and use the same gut that make you write this post.
YOU CAN DO IT
Thank you. Hopefully, the exercise will help. It can't hurt.
I'm on the same journey. I'll never take statins either!
Awesome. Glad to hear it. Thanks for the comment.
I had been on statins for decades before finding out repeated sport injuries might be related. When, against my doctor's advise, who insisted side effects as discussed by the media were highly exaggerated, and I'dd be better of quiting the gym than quiting my statins, not only my sporting injuries went to virtually zero, turned out that statins might have been causing severe cognitive decline as well. 9 months after going of statins, I had an IQ test, a real, payed for one, not the nonsense free IQ tests you find on the internet, and my IQ was just slightly above the 3 sigma mark. Taking into account that in my teens and early 20s I had a few IQ tests all saying the same, not a strange outcome, where it not that my IQ had been going down gradually, as I had thought as the result of growing older, and the previous test I had had two years prior had already slipped below the two sigma mark. My GP again stressed this could not have been a side effect as IQ going down wasn't even a recorded side effect, but people who do IQ tests told me individual IQ doesn't just jump up a whole sigma unless you stack the deck and practise IQ tests all the time. At the moment I now use niacin to keep my cholesterol numbers in check, and apparatus from my GP being off my back now, Ivv noticed high dosage niacin flush actually helps my athletic performance if I try to time it to ocure during my workout. Niacin was something I read in a book on cholesterol by Dr Sinatra called The Great Cholesterol Myth. A lot of good stuff in that book, filled with real risk reduction tips, you should read it. Not all of them are keto compatible, but most are. Never ever going back on statins, but I really think high dosage niacin is an amazing hack. Flushing needs some getting used to, but the flushing seems to be what does the trick and my sporting accomplishments seem to be all the better for it.
Thanks for the comment. Niacin is something one of the keto guys I follow on YouTube is experimenting with. It looks promising.
Unfortunately, GPs get their research from studies done by drug companies. My prediction is statins will go down as one of the worst drugs the medical field has mass prescribed in decades.
Sorry, but what are rib eyes? I assume ribs and eyes are two different body parts? :P
It's a cut of beef. A fatty tender beef steak. One of the better cuts of steaks you can eat here.
That's so awesome. Making me hungry now lol
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