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The Effect of a Ketogenic Diet on Cholesterol Part 3

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Cholesterol Part 3
As you can see with my cholesterol numbers, despite cutting back on my saturated fats for 3 weeks by restricting the amount of coconut oil and grassfed butter that I typically eat, my LDL-C and Total Cholesterol have continued to go up!

Here is a brief summary of potential explanation as to why LDL and total cholesterol can be elevated in people who are in ketosis from Part 2:

  1. Increased consumption of saturated fats -> Increased liver production of fats -> High serums cholesterol
  2. Deficiency in certain micronutrients such as choline and copper -> Through some unknown mechanism -> High serum cholesterol
  3. Natural response of the body being in ketosis is to mobilize more fat for energy -> Higher serum cholesterol
  4. Chronic low carb -> Hypothyroidism (low T3) -> Decreased expression of LDL receptors in the liver -> Higher serum cholesterol

So it looks like I’ve eliminated #1 as a potential explanation.  … Read More

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The Effect of a Ketogenic Diet on Cholesterol Part 1

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Cholesterol PubmedBefore I go into what my lipid results were, I thought it would be a interesting to do a literature search to find what data there is in the academic literature looking into the effect of a ketogenic diet on cholesterol.

This is a pretty comprehensive list going back 15 years to 1998.  I limited it to papers that either provided enough information in their abstracts and those that I could actually access the entire paper for free.   I didn’t want to actually shell out money for papers that required payment since they typically cost around $30 per article!… Read More

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Wheat Germ Agglutinin

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Great post yesterday on Rob Wolff’s blog about one of the other substances you get exposed to when you consume wheat products.  One line in particular caught my attention:

 

“…it increases glucose transport into fat and liver cells while blocking the ability of stored fat to be released.  This can make losing weight impossible and the fact that more glucose is getting brought to the liver; it can increase the amounts of triglycerides in our blood.   – See more at: http://robbwolf.com/blog/2013/02/28/wheat-germ-agglutinin/#comment-149808″

Yet another reason to avoid wheat products…… Read More

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