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Paul Saladino - Quitting The Carnivore Diet After 2 Years And Avoiding Atherosclerosis

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Health & Fitness, Education, Science, Self-improvement

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 136 minutes

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🛌 Use my Eight Sleep code "MPMD" for $200 off the Pod 4, or $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra: https://www.eightsleep.com/moreplatesmoredates/  ⚕️ Use code "MPMD" to get 10% off my go-to "Complete Panel" blood test, with a lab review included to interpret the results: https://marekhealth.com/mpmd  ———————————— 🕑 Time Stamps:  0:00:00 – 0:00:50 – Introduction  0:00:50 – 0:05:32 – Why Paul Saladino Stopped The Carnivore Diet After 2 Years  0:05:32 – 0:08:41 – Is There Ever A Point Of Doing A Keto Diet?  0:08:41 – 0:11:21 – Why Paul Reached Out To Me To Do A Second Podcast After Seeing Me Speak With Peter Attia  0:11:21 – 0:17:36 – What Actually Causes Atherosclerosis? Paul’s Take On The Traditional Hypothesis  0:17:36 – 0:22:17 – Should We Ignore High LDL-C Or APOB?  0:22:17 – 0:25:05 – Paul Describes How Some Studies Suggest That Those With Higher HDL-C Levels May Be Less Likely To Get Atherosclerosis Despite Having High LDL-C Levels  0:25:05 – 0:25:26 – Paul’s Perspective On Why Many Doctors Aren’t Educating Their Patients About Metabolic Health  0:25:26 – 0:33:41 – "Ignore Nutrition Just Focus On Exercise"  0:33:41 – 0:37:55 – Sponsor: Eight Sleep  0:37:55 – 0:39:02 – The Most Important Lab Tests For Avoiding Atherosclerosis  0:39:02 – 0:42:53 – Is It Possible To Get Atherosclerosis If You Have A Fasting Insulin Of 3 uIU/mL Or Less 0:42:53 – 0:46:27 – Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) And Why It’s A Phenotypic Diagnosis, Not A Genotypic Diagnosis 0:46:27 – 0:49:41 – What Happens When You Replace Saturated Fat With Linoleic Acid? 0:49:41 – 0:52:38 – How A Pure Carnivore Diet Affects Thyroid Metabolism 0:52:38 – 0:56:45 – Can Someone On A Keto Diet Long-Term Develop Atherosclerosis Despite Having A Low Fasting Insulin? Dave Feldman’s Lean Mass Hyper-Responder Study 0:56:45 – 1:00:56 – How Paul’s Perspective Differs From Dave Feldman and Shawn Baker     • The Baseline Data From The LMHR Study Paul Mentioned:         https://twitter.com/realDaveFeldman/status/1733387107610063195 1:00:56 – 1:03:55 – What Is APOB And LP(a)? 1:03:55 – 1:06:44 – Sponsor: Marek Health 1:06:44 – 1:10:21 – How Long It Takes For Plaque To Develop And Show On A CT Angiogram 1:10:21 – 1:13:46 – Why Paul Uses Proxy Biomarkers In Atherosclerosis Data Analysis To Discern Insulin Sensitivity 1:13:46 – 1:18:14 – Does Paul Think It Is Ever Justified To Take Lipid Lowering Medication To Avoid Atherosclerosis? 1:18:14 – 1:20:13 – How Should You Track If You Are Developing Atherosclerosis? 1:20:13 – 1:45:27 – Lipid Lowering Medication Risk-Reward Analysis. Will Lowering LDL-C Impair Quality Of Life, Regardless Of The Medication Used? Do Adolescents With Hypofunctioning PCSK9 And Very Low APOB Have Impaired Development Cognitively Or Structurally? 1:45:27 – 1:47:39 – If You Don’t Lower APOB But Want To Track Plaque Accumulation, Is The Dose Of Radiation From A CT Angiogram Concerning? 1:47:39 – 1:56:45 –Why Certain Tribes Have Lower Rates Of Cardiovascular Disease Than The Average Person. Should Or Shouldn’t We Copy What They’re Doing? 1:56:45 – 2:16:17 – The Lowest Hanging Fruit For Avoiding Atherosclerosis And Evaluating Your Risk ———————————— Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are here with Paul Saladino. Thanks for coming out, man. I appreciate it.

0:03.4

It's good to be here. Yeah. So we are in Austin right now. You're on the tail end of a trip from Arizona.

0:10.5

And yeah, you're on your way back to Costa Rica and swung by to talk about some lipids, right?

0:18.0

Lipids and everything connected with them. We're going to go a lot of places today, Derek.

0:21.1

Yeah. So to preface this podcast, because I feelids and everything connected with them. We're going to go a lot of places today, Derek. Yeah.

0:27.6

So to preface this podcast, because I feel like it's worthwhile, this isn't a debate or to bash carnivore in any way.

0:30.0

This is simply, you know, me being curious about, you know, the manifestation of

0:34.6

atherosclerosis, kind of getting to whatever truths I can try and, you know the manifestation of atherosclerosis kind of getting to whatever uh truths i can try and

0:40.2

you know discern similar to what everyone else tries to do is learn as much as they can from as many

0:44.9

people as they can and consolidate their own framework to determine what's the best path forward

0:48.5

for them and um i guess like you don't even really call yourself a carnivore anymore.

0:54.8

Like you changed your Instagram name and everything.

0:56.8

Do you want to speak to that briefly?

0:58.9

Yeah, yeah.

0:59.3

So the backstory here is that I guess in 2018, I cut out all the plants from my diet

1:07.1

and basically ate meat, organs, and fat for close to two years.

1:12.4

During that time, I wrote the carnivore code, got interested in this carnivore diet, got interested in the potential for

1:16.2

some plant foods to trigger autoimmunity in some people, which is kind of my, that's my framework,

1:21.8

because I had pretty bad eczema for a long time in my life, and I had bad excemitist reactions

1:26.8

throughout medical school,

1:27.7

college, even residency, that spurred me to think about this idea, like, are all plants good

1:34.0

for all people? And that was the beginning of these ideas around the carnivore diet. Now,

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