Sky high LDL on keto/carnivore! Should you take a statin? A conversation with cardiologist Nadir Ali, MD
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Paul Saladino, MD
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🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Nadir Ali is an interventional cardiologist with over 25 years of experience. He is also the chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. Before working as a cardiologist, he served as an assistant professor of medicine for eight years at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also received his medical training.
Dr. Ali has championed many aspects of the science and practice of a low-carb lifestyle in the local Clear Lake area since 2013. He organises a monthly nutritional seminar in the Searcy Auditorium of the Clear Lake Hospital that receives more than 100 visitors every month from the local community. Dr Ali’s focus is on managing heart disease, obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. He is also a super nice guy and a pleasure to hang out with
*0:38: Dr. Nadir Ali Introduction*
6:17 Dr. Ali, cardiologist
9:20: From Veganism to Low carb
16:08 What Dr. Ali tells his patients to eat.
18:35 LDL cholesterol levels on a low carb animal based diet
20:45 Why does LDL go up on a keto/carnivore diet?
26:32 Fasting’s effect on LDL
33:25 Should we be worried about high LDL?
43:26 Malcolm Kendrick and his work on cholesterol
45:41 Fourier trial
50:46 Dr. Ken Berry, “lies my doctor told me”
55:46 All cause mortality goes down in those with high LDL
58:20 More Trials
60:33 The Statin Trials
68:39 Non-statin LDL lowering drugs
71:36 The side effects of Statins.
76:45 Incidence of myopathy
82:11 Summary of the Podcast
84:08 Dr. Ali’s take homes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm your host, Dr. Paul Saladino. |
| 0:10.6 | This podcast is the result of my relentless search to understand and correct the roots |
| 0:14.7 | of chronic disease and illness. |
| 0:16.2 | In this podcast, I will share with you everything I have learned about how to live the most |
| 0:19.9 | healthy and radical life possible. |
| 0:22.3 | Thanks for joining me on this journey. |
| 0:23.9 | How's it going everybody? |
| 0:29.6 | This episode may return to my love of lipids. |
| 0:34.5 | Dr. Nandir Ali is an amazing guy. |
| 0:37.5 | He's an interventional cardiologist with 25 years of experience. |
| 0:42.2 | He's the chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in |
| 0:46.5 | Texas. |
| 0:48.5 | He has given a number of amazing presentations online. |
| 0:50.9 | He can go to YouTube and see his presentations. |
| 0:53.1 | One of the ones which was particularly intriguing to me was his one about why we should not be |
| 0:58.1 | worried about high LDL cholesterol on ketogenic and carnivore diets, which is from low carb |
| 1:03.7 | Denver, I believe, in the past. |
| 1:06.2 | He has previously worked as an assistant professor of medicine for eight years at Baylor College |
| 1:11.4 | of Medicine in Houston, where he received his medical training. |
| 1:14.6 | He triampians many aspects of science and the practice of a low carb lifestyle in the local |
| 1:19.8 | Clear Lake community since 2013. |
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