But saturated fat, it's not the most health-promoting fat source. It's probably the worst

fat source that is naturally occurring that we can consume at high levels. Because what it does

is when we consume it at high levels, especially for those who are genetically susceptible,

it will change the expression of the LDL receptor at the liver. And why is this important? Well,

if we're eating high saturated fat, the LDL receptor liver will take in less LDL. It'll allow more LDL cholesterol to circulate. What will happen is you'll have a whole bunch of LDL particles circulating, which is going to increase your risk of heart disease. And this isn't going to happen in one year, two years, three years, five years even. But the problem is, and this is something that really concerns me seeing all these extremely elevated LDL levels

in these groups is this is going to catch up.

LDL builds up over time.

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Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, we are going to be discussing the

carnivore diet.

So this is a question that I've been getting a lot of questions about.

The popularity of this dietary approach is probably the highest it's ever been right now.

And this is something I posted about recently on my Instagram page, and it invited some

discussions that I think are very interesting that deserve a more nuanced discussion,

which is what we do here on this podcast.

So a few of the things that came up that I want to

address is many people follow this diet and they feel better. And I want to discuss that.

But first I want to talk about what this diet is, why it became popular, how it became popular.

And then we'll discuss why a lot of people feel better on it.

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