The Best Diet for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to talk about the best diet for familial hypercholesterolemia.
With this condition, a person has 50 percent of the LDL receptors than usual, which means they have a higher risk of a buildup of LDL.
The top signs of familial hypercholesterolemia are fat deposits on the Achilles tendons, wrists, or eyelids and a condition called arcus senilis, which is whitening around the iris.
Key points from an important study:
• The current dietary guidelines for the management of coronary heart disease in familial hypercholesterolemia are based on outdated and unsupported information.
• There’s no evidence to support the recommendations of consuming a low saturated fat diet or low cholesterol diet, which are given to individuals with a genetic cholesterol problem.
• A low-carb diet was found to significantly improve cardiovascular disease biomarkers.
• There is sufficient rationale for conducting clinical trials to assess the effects of a low-carb diet on familial hypercholesterolemia individuals with insulin resistance.
It may be good to question if lowering the cholesterol and saturated fats in your diet is the best strategy to focus on. But talk to your doctor before making any changes to your diet or medications.
In my opinion, people with high cholesterol should focus more on lowering their carbs rather than saturated fat or cholesterol.
Natural remedies for cholesterol problems:
1. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet
2. Do intermittent fasting
3. Take red yeast extract
4. Take policosanol
5. Take niacin
6. Exercise
7. Consume garlic
8. Consume tocotrienols
DATA:
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/26/6/295
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/10/8/1809
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/...
https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.c...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20153...
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| 0:00.0 | I get this question very often, what type of diet should someone with a genetic cholesterol |
| 0:06.6 | problem have? |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm talking about familial hyperclestrolemia. |
| 0:11.2 | Now you would logically think that if someone has a problem with cholesterol, okay? |
| 0:16.6 | And with this condition, you have like 50% of the LDL receptors than a normal person. |
| 0:24.1 | So that means you're going to have a buildup of LDL. |
| 0:26.4 | So logically it makes sense to just start reducing your cholesterol and your saturated |
| 0:30.9 | fats, especially, right? |
| 0:33.1 | Makes total sense. |
| 0:34.8 | And this is something that has been recommended for probably, I don't know, 80 years. |
| 0:40.4 | It's your standard recommendations from most medical professionals. |
| 0:44.5 | But there's a fascinating research paper that I want to summarize right here that actually |
| 0:51.4 | blew my mind. |
| 0:53.1 | And I'm going to kind of give you the simple version and then you can click down below and |
| 0:56.9 | read it for yourself. |
| 0:58.2 | Of course, check with your doctor and don't come off any medications because of me. |
| 1:02.2 | There is extremely poor evidence of recommending lowering your cholesterol and your saturated |
| 1:09.1 | fats for the better outcomes if you have this genetic cholesterol problem. |
| 1:16.3 | Despite these recommendations, lowering saturated fats and cholesterol to people with genetic |
| 1:20.8 | cholesterol problems, they still have a significant increased risk of dying from a heart |
| 1:26.6 | attack. |
| 1:27.6 | And the name of this research paper is called dietary recommendations for familial hyperclestrol |
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