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Great Article on Ketogenic Diet and Increased Cholesterol

Posted on June 23, 2014February 18, 2015 by BJJ Caveman

Great Article on Ketogenic Diet and Increased Cholesterol

Just read a great post written by Franziska Spritzler, RD, a registered dietician who went on a ketogenic diet and also experienced a meteoric rise of her LDL-P.

From June 2013 to November 2013 she was eating around 50 gm carbs per day and these were her numbers:

6/11/2013 – LDL-P: 1174, LDL-C: 124, Small LDL-P: 103
11/2013 – LDL-C: 160

Then in January 2014 she experimented with further decreasing her carb intake to around 20 gm per day.… Read More

A Successful Targeted Ketogenic Diet Experiment

Posted on March 29, 2014June 25, 2015 by BJJ Caveman

This is a guest post written by Bosona who I met through one of the reddit/keto threads where he shared the findings of his own n=1 experiment using a targeted ketogenic diet (TKD), with great results. I asked him if he was willing to write a guest post for this site describing his experiment in more detail and he kindly agreed.

I think it’s useful for folks who visit to see that not all experiments with variants of ketogenic diets end up with crazy lab numbers. … Read More

Resistant Starch and Cholesterol

Posted on January 24, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Currently at the airport listening to Kiefer’s new podcast called Body IO FM where is first guest is Robb Wolf. One of the first thing Robb brings up is the topic of resistant starches. It’s something that he’s been experimenting with lately and he revealed that like me, he also has a sky high LDL-P while eating low carb and going in and out of ketosis. After doing the resistant starch thing he said that his LDL-P ‘plummeted.’

Much of the resistant starch information has been championed by Richard Nikoley on Free The Animal, but I first got interested when I heard about it from Mark Sisson, Dave Asprey, and Chris Kresser, all within the span of 1-2 months.… Read More

Cyclic Ketogenic Diet and Cholesterol

Posted on January 12, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Cyclic Ketogenic Diet and Cholesterol

Brief Summary:

Recently I completed a 10 week experiment doing a variation of a cyclic ketogenic diet called the Carb Nite Solution, which basically entails eating strict low carb (less than 30 gm per day) with one 6-8 hr window of massive carb loading per week. At the end of this experiment, before going on a trip to Italy, I had a series of fasting labs drawn.

So far we’ve looked at my:

It’s time to go into my cholesterol numbers. … Read More

Book Review – ‘The Primal Blueprint’ – By Mark Sisson

Posted on October 22, 2013February 18, 2015 by BJJ Caveman

The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy

I’m not even sure where to begin in my review of this book except by saying two things:

This is the best health book I’ve ever read

And

I wish I had read this sooner

I’m a frequent visitor of Mark Sisson’s site, Mark’s Daily Apple. In fact I’ve read every post starting from December 2012 when I first discovered his site, around the same time I started my own blog.… Read More

The Effect of a Ketogenic Diet on Cholesterol Part 5

Posted on October 13, 2013October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

As you know, the past couple of months have been a bit of a whirlwind. During this time I wasn’t trying too hard to eat low carb… unlike the militant way I was counting carbs during my initial n=1 experiment. I know there were a some weeks when I was definitely eating very low carb and spent at least a few of those days in ketosis (I hadn’t been testing my blood ketones these past few months), and there were other days when my carb intake increased due to social situations as well as my desire to avoid the keto-rash: prurigo pigmentosa.… Read More