Cholesterol on keto – Dave Feldman

May 20 by , medical review by in About membership, Cholesterol, Low Carb Denver, Presentations

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What happens to cholesterol levels on a keto diet? Can weight loss cause increased LDL cholesterol levels? Can resistance training lower LDL cholesterol?

Dave Feldman has carried out a number of extremely ambitious n=1 experiments and measured what happened to his cholesterol profile. In this presentation from the Low Carb Denver 2019 conference, he talks about his experiments and the sometimes surprising results.

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Dave Feldman: I hypothesize, when you make your muscles sore they consume LDL particles for repair and growth. You need more cell membranes to make more cells or to repair the ones that already have a problem.

So, I see a lot of studies like this one for example, we’re sure not there’s a lot of resistance training, if there’s a lot of potential for micro terra’s and so forth, you happen to see LDL tends to go down, and that’s why I decided to structure this experiment.

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I want to keep everything identical from one day to the next for 20 days straight, and so you know this graphic I’m showing up here is only the first five days and those are not duplicate photos.

I literally ate the same way at 10AM, 3PM and 8PM, which is by the way my baseline diet for doing the experiment, and so doing it for 20 days straight I could then have two interventions that would be very discretely obvious keeping everything else as the same as possible, and this is what it looked like.

I was taking with a cardio check, taking my lipids every single morning, and as you can see at those top two that’s the total cholesterol and the LDL, you can see that the generally hover about the same. And then I introduced my first exercise regime, and this is what happened.

Then I did the second exercise regime, and this is what happened. You can see right here, from both the intervention one where I was doing a vibration plate and high intensity interval training and then of course the more intensive interval two, where I did the weight lifting and I did the vibration plate and you can see what a difference it made, and this is shown pretty well on this chart right here.

The actual drop of LDL at its bottom was 15% for the first one and 17% for the second one, which to me suggests that there may in fact be some degree of endocytosis that’s going on with LDL particles. Still a theory, make no mistake, but certainly one that I was excited to try out in that experiment.

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10 comments

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Tina Thompson
May 21 1
My cholesterol skyrocketed. And I made sure I did clean keto. Definitely not for me. I think it may be discovered later that it does more harm than good.

Reply: #8
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Claire
May 21 2
Two months in on the keto pill and diet . Lost 10 lbs and my cholesterol went down. First time ever, cause I don't take a pill for cholesterol .
Really Claire
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R Burdick
May 21 2
I checked my cholesterol 3 months after being on strict keto. My cholesterol was reduced "as if I had been on medication" my doctor said.
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Rebecca Hart
May 21 4
Keep in mind the studies want you to believe keto is bad .. it has kept me from needing insulin.. 6 weeks and 14 pounds lost.. the reason cholesterol is high is because people are eating too much cured meats (bacon).. pharmaceutical companies want you in meds ... lots of people are getting off many medications.. watch the magic pill on netflix
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Judy Wylie
May 21 3
Triglycerides went from 396 to 134 in the course of two years on Keto.
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Belinda A
May 21 1
I have been on Keto for 9 months My cholesterol went up slightly,still within normal range.My HDL went up,Still needs improvement. My LDL is slightly elevated at 109 and my triglycerides are normal .My HGB A1c dropped to 5.9 from 6.1.I am not on medications.I have lost 26 lbs so far.
I do clean Keto.No processed foods/meats.
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Petra Sartor
May 21 2
I had been keto for about 3 months and lost 33 lbs at that point. I was sent for blood work and my LDL was high, but my triglycerides were cut in half. The important thing to me was triglycerides, not LDL. I'm sure the LDL will make a "correction" in time. I'm on the right path.
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Debra
May 24
Mine too😞 I read somewhere there is a subset of us that do experience high LDL and high Triglycerides on clean keto with IF.
NOBODY can say I was noncompliant.
I've never had labs that were out of normal range until now. Very discouraged now. I have fatty liver too. I wonder if the process of healing my liver could dump the excess fat into my blood???
I dunno. It's got to go somewhere right?
No clear guidance coming from anywhere about this uncommon outcome.
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Junkgrirl
May 27
I watched all these videos on YouTube. The complete versions put out by Low Carb Denver. I subscribed to that on YouTube. I am not a member of Diet dr yet. Good work here though.
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Gary Mullins
May 27 1
After a solid year of strict SKD, losing over 70 lbs of body fat, my cholesterol levels went up quite a bit. My primary doc wanted to put me on a statin drug. I didn't want statins, nor did I want to give up keto. Instead I saw a cardiologist. I told him I was going to adjust my diet and he gave me three months to try it out. The results were that my cholesterol showed significant improvement. What I did was increase fiber intake, replace some saturated fats with monounsaturated fats, and incorporated a carb day every week or two.