Cholesterol: A passenger, not a driver

April 17 2018 by in About membership, Cholesterol, Heart disease, Low Carb Breckenridge, Saturated fat

If your cholesterol gets elevated on a low-carb diet, should you be concerned?

Is high LDL cholesterol problematic – even in the presence of low triglycerides? If not – is there a better predictor of heart disease? And how does your fat intake influence cholesterol?

In his talk from Low Carb Breckenridge 2018, the relentless self-experimenter and engineer Dave Feldman digs deep into the topic of cholesterol.

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Cholesterol: A passenger, not a driver – Dave Feldman

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Interview with Feldman

Cholesterol

What about cholesterol?
04:14
Dr. Unwin discusses cholesterol on low carb: common improvements and rare cases when cholesterol increases significantly.
Should you be afraid of cholesterol on a low-carb diet?
27:02
What drives the process where good LDL turns into harmful LDL? Is it fat or carbohydrates? What is the impact of fluctuating blood-sugar levels?
Cholesterol on a low-carb diet
35:54
Is the traditional way of thinking about cholesterol outdated – and if so, how should we view the essential molecule instead? How does it respond to different lifestyle interventions in different individuals?
"My doctor urged me to take statins"
20:17
Diamond became highly interested in cholesterol and heart disease, and was able to make vast improvements – without ever taking medications.
The cholesterol network system
22:24
Can you drastically lower your cholesterol, by eating MORE fat?
Should you worry about high cholesterol?
13:49
Is high cholesterol inherently dangerous, who should (and shouldn't) take statins and what can you do instead of taking medications?
Diet Doctor Podcast #9 — Dr. Ron Krauss
55:25
Dr. Ron Krauss helps us understand the nuances beyond LDL-C and how we can use all the available data to help us better understand what we know and do not know about cholesterol.
The great cholesterol myth
37:55
“Eating all that fat and cholesterol will clog your arteries and give you heart disease!” Well, it’s not that simple.
Cholesterol on keto
27:41
What happens to cholesterol levels on a keto diet? Can weight loss cause increased LDL cholesterol levels? Can resistance training lower LDL cholesterol?
Solving health problems like an engineer
28:47
Applying engineering problem solving to get to the root of what causes heart disease.
Nutrition nuggets to combat conventional dietary advice
45:06
What are the seven common beliefs that are just myths, and that hold us back from understanding how to eat truly healthy foods?
What really causes heart disease?
49:51
What is the root of the problem in heart disease? Is it cholesterol – which we've been told for decades – or is it something else?
Is cholesterol the cause of heart disease?
23:54
Does cholesterol really cause heart disease? And if not – what does?
How cholesterol really works – Dave Feldman
29:40
Dave Feldman is a software engineer and an entrepreneur with a passion for lipids. In this presentation, he gives us a detailed overview of cholesterol.
Diet Doctor podcast #8 – Dave Feldman
56:06
Dave Feldman has done more to call into question the lipid hypothesis of heart disease than practically anyone over the past few decades.
Why high cholesterol is healthy
30:01
Is high cholesterol and LDL dangerous – or could it actually be protective?
Killing for profit?
11:11
Is Big Food and Big Pharma killing for profit? And why can lifestyle intervention be more powerful than medications?
Is high cholesterol dangerous on a low-carb diet?
11:22
What does it mean if some parts of one's lipid profile improve, and some become worse on low carb? Dr. Sarah Hallberg answers this question.

Interview with Feldman

Cholesterol

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