BH020: Cholesterol — Understanding How the Body Uses It and Are High LDL Levels Really Dangerous? With Dave Feldman
The Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
Release Date: 12/12/2017
The Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
Doctor Carrie Diulus is a spine surgeon with an amazing story. Her life has been littered with maladies such as Celiac Disease, type 1 diabetes, gastroparesis, and a serious knee injury and yet she persists with athletic triumphs and incredible health. How she accomplishes this is a testament to her ingenuity and resourcefulness. Dr. Carrie shares her story of how data collection, self-experimentation, and analyzing the results led her down the opposite path from the advice of her doctors.
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info_outline LCCP036: Dave Feldman Challenges Everything We Think We Know About LDL Cholesterol.The Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
Traditionally we are taught that any elevation of LDL cholesterol leads to heart disease. Not so fast, says Dave. In this episode, we discuss why this does not apply to LMHRs and what that means for LCHF individuals and what it means for the medical world as a whole. We also discuss how recent PCSK9i drug trials prove his point, even though contemporary medicine promotes them with an opposite conclusion. Sound confusing? Well, it isn’t once you hear Dave explain his case.
info_outline LCCP035: Dr. Jeff Stanley — How Ketogenics is Changing the Game of Treating Type 2 DiabetesThe Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
This week, I welcome Dr. Jeff Stanley of Virta Health back to the podcast to discuss the results from their one-year Cardiovascular Risk Factor Assessment clinical trial. The results, which are published in the peer-reviewed publication Cardiovascular Diabetology, include some very impressive findings. Findings that may just shake up conventional wisdom about a high fat diet.
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This week, Orthopedic surgeon, World Record Holder and Master athlete Dr. Shawn Baker shares his solution for thriving as a human being. He eats meat. Lots of meat, and only meat. He is the leader of the carnivore movement and has created a community of carnivores through his social media efforts. This may have been considered “fringe” or “crazy” a few years ago, but now, thanks to Dr Baker’s efforts, the carnivore diet is becoming an accepted diet for health and human performance.
info_outline LCCP033: Siobhan Huggins — Reverse Engineering Cholesterol MisconceptionsThe Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
This week’s guest, Siobhan Huggins, is a stellar citizen scientist who has a passion for dissecting complex topics, and understanding how misbeliefs lead us astray. She has a remarkable gift of analyzing complex topics and reframing them from a systems and engineering point of view. Plus, her own personal journey through the low-carb keto lifestyle prompted her deeper dive into lipids, inflammation, insulin resistance and more. She understands that cholesterol is not inherently evil.
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info_outline LCCP031: Dustin Schaffer — The Power of Exogenous KetonesThe Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
My good friend Dustin Schaffer of the SchafferMethod.com is a master at helping people live their lives better. In this interview he shares his personal health journey that eventually led him to ketosis. Since then, he has helped his clients find their own path to health, and has been very successful at it. But now he has his most powerful and favorite tool- the combination of exogenous ketones and strong community support.
info_outlineMy guest on this episode has a fresh, mechanistic approach to understanding the way our bodies use cholesterol. Dave Feldman is an engineer who has used self-experimentation to unpack the dynamic changes of LDL in his body. His findings have been revolutionary. On his blog, CholesterolCode.com he shares his personal journey of how a low-carb, high-fat diet and almost 100 blood tests have given him pause about the way the medical community currently diagnoses and treats patients with high LDL levels.
Dave is not a doctor. He is an engineer with a curious mind and his experiments are helping people re-frame how we see cholesterol and the impact on our health.
Key Takeaways:
[4:32] Dave was confident that his cholesterol increase wasn’t justified by the amount of weight he lost.
[10:31] The Feldman Protocol began as the Extreme Drop experiment.
[16:15] Identifying the purpose of cholesterol in the body.
[26:10] Is there a sweet spot for the body to make itself fast, available energy?
[31:24] A diet three days before a cholesterol test can make a significant impact on the results.
[37:15] The frustrating side of science in the field of medicine.
[1:00:19] Are there long-term dangers to being in ketosis for a long period of time?
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