068: Dave Feldman - High Cholesterol on Keto, Triglyceride Levels, The Best Way to Gauge Cholesterol, and When to Be Alarmed
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Has your doctor recently told you that your cholesterol levels were too high and that your keto diet could be to blame?
Wondering if they’re right and if you have anything to worry about?
While we can’t give you medical advice over the podcast, the guest speaker of this episode, Dave Feldman, provides some helpful insight on this topic.
Dave studies lipidology, which you’ll learn about, to help people prevent cholesterol problems that can lead to serious conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and strokes.
When you tune in, you’ll discover that high levels of cholesterol may not be a bad thing if these other blood markers are low.
On the flipside, high results in those key markers of inflammation could be a huge sign that your doctor is right.
By tuning into the episode, you’ll find out what it means to have high cholesterol on keto, when to be concerned, and what you can do about it.
Dave Feldman -- who has over 50k social followers -- also shares everything he’s discovered through his research and his own personal journey from lowering his A1c down from 7.1.
So if cholesterol is one of those topics you’re unsure of on a keto diet, this is the episode you don’t want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and thank you for listening to the Keto Answers podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host Dr. Anthony Gustin and joining me this week is Dave Feldman. |
| 0:13.4 | Dave is a former software engineer, turned health and lipid skeptic. |
| 0:18.0 | So he has a pretty crazy story where he initially just went Keto as he wanted to change |
| 0:24.0 | his risk for type 2 diabetes and his lipid panel went out of wax. |
| 0:28.1 | This cholesterol went all crazy, his doctor freaked out and being the engineer, he figured |
| 0:32.5 | out a way to modify these things. |
| 0:34.8 | He went down this crazy rabbit hole over the last few years as now one of the leading experts |
| 0:39.0 | and has a theory and hypothesis around what happens when you go to Keto direct diet if |
| 0:44.5 | your cholesterol goes out of wax and if you should be worried enough. |
| 0:47.2 | So we talk a lot about why this happens and if it is high, you know, should you even care. |
| 0:53.4 | This is one of the things that I get asked about most still MDM's questions all of the stuff |
| 0:57.8 | is, you know, I switch to a Keto joint diet and here's my lipid panel. |
| 1:01.9 | What do you think? |
| 1:02.9 | And Dave has much better answers than I do. |
| 1:05.6 | So tune in and if you've ever had any questions about this type of stuff, cholesterol in general, |
| 1:09.8 | I think you'll find a lot to learn here. |
| 1:12.3 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. |
| 1:15.8 | Perfect Keto is all about making a Keto joint diet healthy and accessible. |
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