Should you worry about your cholesterol on a keto diet?

November 7 2017 by in Cholesterol, Keto, Low carb & high fat

Are your cholesterol values problematic and something to worry about?

Dave Feltman, who runs the site Cholesterol Code, has made a video where he goes through a standard cholesterol test and what it means on a keto diet:

YouTube: Basics of cholesterol part I – Standard test

Want to know more about potentially elevated cholesterol levels on a keto diet? Check out the links below.

Low-carb side effects: Elevated cholesterol

Did a citizen-scientist crack the cholesterol code?

The demonization and deception in research on saturated fat, cholesterol and heart disease

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Diet Doctor Podcast #9 — Dr. Ron Krauss
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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.
"My doctor urged me to take statins"
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Diamond became highly interested in cholesterol and heart disease, and was able to make vast improvements – without ever taking medications.
How cholesterol really works – Dave Feldman
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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.
What about cholesterol?
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Dr. Unwin discusses cholesterol on a low-carb diet. This includes common improvements and the rare case when patients' cholesterol increases significantly.
The cholesterol network system
22:24
Can you drastically lower your cholesterol, by eating MORE fat?
Statin Nation
1:02:45
Statin Nation exposes the exaggerations and the misleading, almost criminal, marketing of daily drugs to people who don’t need them.
Statin Nation II
1:15:35
Is high cholesterol the main cause of heart disease? The follow up to the success Statin Nation.
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?
The highway to poor health
48:56
Dwight Lundell on endothelial dysfunction, and how the highway to poor health is associated with hyperglycemia.
Is cholesterol the cause of heart disease?
23:54
Does cholesterol really cause heart disease? And if not – what does?
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?
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.
Why high cholesterol is healthy
30:01
Is high cholesterol and LDL dangerous – or could it actually be protective?
Solving health problems like an engineer
28:47
Applying engineering problem solving to get to the root of what causes heart disease.
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?
Killing for profit?
11:11
Is Big Food and Big Pharma killing for profit? And why can lifestyle intervention be more powerful than medications?
Cholesterol: A passenger, not a driver
27:31
Is high LDL cholesterol problematic – even in the presence of low triglycerides?
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.

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Amit Mallya
August 14 2018
I started Keto about 2.5 weeks ago and did a blood test. Below are my results after the test and having been on keto for 2 weeks.

HDL - 52; Triglycerides - 110 and LDL - 242

Now this is significantly different from my results February which are as below:

HDL - 39; Triglycerides - 192 and LDL - 149

Should I be worried?

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russell
August 14 2018
Should you be worried?
I see your HDL ("good" cholesterol) has gone up. :)
I see your Triglycerides have gone down. :)

I'd say 2.5 weeks of a complete dietary lifestyle change is probably not long enough to draw any conclusions. Test again in 6 months. Watch the videos linked on this page, especially "Why high cholesterol is healthy"

Good luck and stick with it!

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