Wed, Apr-22-20, 07:04
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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For cholesterol being protective...might have been the interview with Dr Paul Mason at The Fat Emperor.
https://thefatemperor.com/ep68-dr-p...s-crucial-info/
From the funny transcription:
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Dr. Mason (00:19:51):
people get worried about what happens to the LDL level, what happens to their total cholesterol level? And you know the be at, they've got their family doctor, their general practitioner in their ear and their personal trainer, they've seen it on TV, what have you, so that so many people are afraid of going on a ketogenic diet because of what it will do to their cholesterol. And what I'm going to say is that having a high cholesterol level is probably gonna be a good thing if you're wanting to fight infection. So we know for a fact that, so the other two blood tests we already talked about, sugar, triglycerides, height, GL, three blood tests, they all move in the right direction on a low carb diet. But people get hung up on, well, what happens if your LDL goes up? So, so what if your LDL goes up?
Dr. Mason (00:20:42):
So we've got this systematic review from 2016 so they had 19 cohort studies I looked at with over 68,000 participants. All of those 19 studies, 16 of them found an inverse relationship with cholesterol levels, LDL levels, and all cause mortality. So what does that mean? That means that people with the highest LDL level, they live longer. And then we've got a race and Piper. So it was in a, it was in JAMA, a 2019 and that showed, looked at, uh, the association between LDL cholesterol and sepsis. So sepsis is basically an uncontrolled infection. And what I found that people with the lowest LDL levels were about 50% more likely to suffer sepsis than people with the highest levels of cholesterol. So, and I mean, you know, we've got other studies that have shown exactly the same thing going way back to 1997 looking specifically at the very elderly population. So they basically found that it's um, you know, there's this inverse relationship. Um, you know, whichever way we slice and dice it, we look at LDL, there's evidence of benefit. We have a look at height steel. This absolutely evidence of benefit with that being higher. We have a look at total cholesterol on all three metrics. It seems to be that when they're higher, people are better protected from infection. So, uh,
Ivor (00:22:12):
and you know what Paul, the five criteria for insulin resistance syndrome, metabolic syndrome that you listed. And there's a reason they didn't even put LDL in there. Only HDL cause LDL was so useless to predict metabolic disease in general and even heart disease that it just doesn't get included. And people may not realize that. And other things like if you're worried about LDL, well it all depends. If you have metabolic disease, sometimes your LDL can be relatively raised. So it's a proxy for the disease. And sometimes it can be high and has absolutely no problem whatsoever cause you don't have metabolic disease. And a recent study just this year actually, or maybe it was 19 came out and analyze the Misa with the calcification scan, which truly shows the level of arterial disease. And when they looked at the people with an LDL of around five millimoles or one 90 milligrams U S units, this is ultra high, they found that they didn't have any real extra heart disease over the general population. And nearly 40% of those guys had a zero calcium score at middle are at an age of 60 I think it was or 61 so people really need to realize that LDL in terms of being a problem is almost meaningless on its own. And as you say, in terms of being strongly connected to lack of frailty and resistance to infections, it's, it's a good thing when it's high. So it's kind of a no brainer during an issue like this where you want to be. Right,
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Think Dr Mason also had more on cholesterol in his YouTube on Covid, but no transcription with that one ( which might be a good thing  )
https://youtu.be/4lJPjsuftmQ |