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Towards the end of college, I started developing GI upset with basically anything I ate.

So I ended up becoming quite desperate and after trying a bunch of medications that didn't end up really working to keep me in remission

or help my symptoms.

I tried a bunch of different diets because I was desperate.

Eventually I tried to ketogenic diet and that's when my life really did change.

My inflammatory markers dropped, I felt a lot better,

and on my next colonoscopy there was no sign of disease.

I was in biopsy-proven remission.

It was my first lipid panel, my LDL cholesterol, cholesterol total as well,

along with my HGL they all skyrocketed.

So I did a trial where I experimented on myself

using 12 Oreo cookies per day for about two weeks

and then I did a washout period

and compared it to high-dose statin therapy, 20 milligrams of

suva statin for six weeks. The Oreo cookies were twice as potent at lowering

my cholesterol, lowering my LDL as high intensity statin therapy. So that was me being intentionally

provocative to get more discussion around the physiology of cholesterol changes in

carbohydrate-restruiting diets. The reason being is changes in Calediot-restricted diets. The reason being is changes in cholesterol

still remain like the boogie-man of low-carb diets,

and I think they have so much clinical utility,

we need to address this boogie-man

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