Here are a few important things you need to know if you have high cholesterol on keto.
So you just start a keto and your cholesterol is off the charts what do you do okay there’s a couple important things you need to know number one and this was in 2018 the new guidelines about is brand new they said total cholesterol is not significantly associated with heart disease okay that’s the new finding they
Just found out really give you a lot of information with in relationship to predicting heart disease okay that’s number one number two your body makes 75 to make hormones sex hormones cell and vitamin d which is very very crucial and this is why when people take cholesterol they have a lot of side effects
Relating to get into now what i did is i took my wife karen’s report okay that i’m going to show you i’m going to walk you through this this is an actual report done 11 15 2019 and we checked the total cholesterol the ldl the hdl triglycerides and we checked several other things because i always recommend
When you get a cholesterol test you get an advanced lipid profile an advanced test that measures the two different types of ldl okay which we’re going to cover now check this out this is what we found her total cholesterol was 261. normal is below 200. so this is too high right so immediately you’re probably going to
Freak out unless you understand that this total cholesterol through your arteries it can’t it doesn’t mix well with blood it has to be packaged really all these other things combined okay lipo proteins because you need a protein and we have high density lipo protein okay so really you know take the
Cholesterol and just put it to the side right now all right so we know the cholesterol is high we also know her ldl look at that should be below 100 it’s 195. it’s more greater than 50 because you want that higher because that’s the cholesterol coming from the cells back onto the liver okay it’s not the ldl
From the liver to the cells it’s coming back the other way hers was really good 71. triglycerides it’s coming from right here but thank goodness we did a test that goes a little bit deeper and we measured two types of ldl one is the large buoyant type of ldl which is kind of large and fluffy as it goes through the artery
And number two we measured the small dense ldl particles okay so i want to focus on this one right here small dense test is this right here s d l d l dash c we go here’s karen’s report we have her name we have the date and we have the total cholesterol which is 261 right check that out right there
And the second one this high ldlc that stands for ldl cholesterol it’s 195. okay if we take a look on the second page right here look at this the ldl is 2128 right but let’s narrow in on this one type of ldl sd ldl dash c that’s the small dense low density lipoprotein this is one that’s dangerous it’s optimal so guess
What this means it means that karen’s high level of ldl is not the small dense type it is the large buoyant type and it’s it’s one of the better markers for predicting heart problems it’s one of the best indicators for detecting inflammation deep inside of the arteries all right so let me just explain the inside
Of the arteries so i got this really good analogy from a dr sanjay gupta on one of his youtube videos using a frying pan right so it’s a really great example of what happens on the inside of your arteries so here we have this non-stick frying pan okay so you fry something on here you put some fat on there and it
Doesn’t stick right and you rub it or you scratch this and you get rid of this layer the fat will start to stick here’s what you need to know cholesterol is not going to affect the inside of the arteries unless there’s first some type of lesion some type of erosion on the inside of the arteries where the small dense type
Ldl can then developing plaquing so the question is why such high ldl and also why did she have more of the large buoyant type versus the small dense type and that’s simply because of this this consuming the wrong types of foods when you’re doing a healthy version of keto where you’re doing higher fats
Lower carb moderate protein guess what you’re going to get into ketosis you’re going to start burning fat and a fat cell is composed of cholesterol has to come out it has to be mobilized so you can have certain times or transitional periods where your cholesterol goes up and it goes down but as long as you keep your
Carbs low you’re going to get more of this type of cholesterol advanced lipid profile not just your regular test that doesn’t tell you very much information and so getting back to the arteries there’s in addition to the glucose in the sugar which is a kind of a most people know that seed oils a lot of corn
Oils canola soy cottonseed oil and so many different foods mayonnaise salad dressings going off to dinner eating fried foods very inflammatory smoking creates inflammation junk food creates inflammation and also when you’re deficient in vitamin e and you become deficient in vitamin e when you start consuming
Refined flour products and that would be in the form of breads and pastas cereal crackers biscuits things like that you start becoming depleted of vitamin e which is the protective antioxidant to protect the inside of the arteries and by the way if you have any problems with the inside of your artery the best vitamin
E to take is not tocopherols it’s tocatrinals okay that’s the one that you would want to help protect the inside of that layer so now let’s take a look inside the artery and get a visual of what can happen so we’re looking here at the inside of an artery this tiny layer on the inside of the artery is called the
Endothelium and this layer controls the tone of your blood vessel it can increase the blood pressure it can decrease the blood pressure elastic but it’s very sensitive to sugar an average person in america consumes between 250 to 350 grams of glucose that is at least 13 to 15 times what is normal so when you expose
The inside of your artery to that much glucose what’s going to happen we’re going to get this oxidation effect it’s like rusting out the inside of your arteries now what happens next is the body’s response to an injury we’re going to get inflammation we’re going and start building up and start to to act as a
Band-aid we’re also going to get cholesterol that actually mixes in there and acts as a band-aid we’re also going to get fibrous tissue that’s going to act as a band-aid altogether this and cholesterol is going to start to form a clot the blood flow backs up and you start getting a diminished flow of blood so what
Does blood do it carries oxygen and nutrition so now we starve off nutrition and if that blood vessel turns into a capillary and ends up in the bottom of your feet you’ll get peripheral neuropathy the coronary artery that goes to your heart your heart muscle will start to cramp as an angina and eventually a
Heart attack if that clot breaks off goes up to your brain and starts shutting off oxygen into your brain you get a stroke and just by getting the sugar out of the diet your immune system it’s a free course here’s you here is your environment everyone your environment but what about here what about strengthening
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Dr. Berg's Wife Has Crazy High Cholesterol of 261.. By Dr. Eric Berg DC