[Skybird]

On Cholesterol and Carbohydrate Reduction:




https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://kochketo.de/cholesterin-und-keto/

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://foodpunk.de/alles-ueber-cholesterin/

Things are a bit different than just "high cholesterol cloggs your arteries". From some age on, higher cholesterol levels are even associated with smaller risks for death, whereas low levels that were considered "healthy " until some years ago seem to increase the risk for certain types of cancer and heart attacks.

If you want to check with your doctor, do not be satisfied with just learning total cholesterol levels, but ask for a specialised analysis of how your LDL is composed: how much small density LDL (sdLDL) and oxidated LDL (oxLDL) do you have (you want them to be low), and how is your HDL level (you want it to be rather high)? Big larticle LDL is not so much a cocnern, and that is what usually gets raised by cionsuming keto fatty diats and MCTs. sdLDL and oxLDL are the more relevant data.


Worth to remember: if you fast, or eat keto style and thus more healthy fats/oils, your LDL MUST rise, and it is wanted, because all the fat and lipids and keton bodies must get transported from the liver to the parts of the body where they are needed. Thats what the LDL does, whereas HDL works the other way around, collecting unused components and transporting them back to the liver for recycling. Think of it like christmas time. People raise the amounts of parcels due to the gifts and presents they sent, and so the mail and logistics services are more present with their vans on the street, they even do additonal shifts: you see more vans on the streets. Its just logical.