Why everything you’ve been told about cholesterol is probably wrong! A conversation with Dave Feldman.
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Paul Saladino, MD
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🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
If you are interested in lipids, you’ve probably heard of Dave Feldman and his work. If not, you’ve got some homework to do, and I think you’ll be amazed at what you find. Dave’s work can found at cholesterolcode.com where he details his multiple, meticulous self-experimental projects. Prior to cholesterol adventures Dave was a senior software scientist and an engineer. He brings this “out of the box” thinking to the world of medicine and we are all a better off for it.
He began a low-carb, high-fat diet in April 2015 and has since learned everything he could about it with special emphasis on cholesterol. He saw his own lipid numbers spike substantially after going on the diet and spotted a pattern in the lipid system that’s very similar to distributed objects in networks.
He’s since learned quite a bit on the subject both through research and experimentation which has revealed some very powerful data (see his Cholesterol Code series Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V).
As of this writing, his “Extreme Drop” experiment has gotten the most attention (see infographic here, and do-it-yourself page here) where he induced a 73 point drop in my LDL-C and a 1115 point drop in my LDL-P.
In this show we discuss Dave’s recent talk at Keto Salt Lake which can be found on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv00mMiB9M
Dave’s contact information:
Twitter: @daveketo
Instagram: @davefeldmanketo
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Paul Saladino. This podcast |
| 0:11.1 | is the result of my relentless search to understand and correct the roots of chronic |
| 0:15.1 | disease and illness. In this podcast, I will share with you everything I have learned |
| 0:18.9 | about how to live the most healthy and radical life possible. Thanks for joining me on this |
| 0:23.3 | journey. |
| 0:27.2 | You guys, I am so glad you are here because this week's conversation is amazing. And I mean, |
| 0:34.2 | it's really amazing. So on the podcast this week, I was fortunate enough to have Dave Feldman, |
| 0:40.8 | who is known by his cholesterol code.com website and various talks on the internet. Dave is an |
| 0:49.4 | engineer by trade and he has become incredibly interested in lipids in cholesterol. |
| 0:56.6 | And then how these are affected by ketogenic and carnivore diets. And I think this is such an |
| 1:02.6 | interesting conversation that I could not wait to have this and it did not disappoint me. Dave and I |
| 1:08.5 | got to have dinner earlier in the week. As you'll hear in the episode one of our mutual friends, |
| 1:14.7 | sponsored that dinner. His name is Nathan. So a shout out to Nathan for that sponsor. We all went to |
| 1:20.2 | John Howey, which is an incredible steakhouse in Bellevue. And we ate amazing steaks and talked |
| 1:25.9 | about lipids and I knew that this podcast would be incredible. So why is this so important? |
| 1:31.7 | Well, after that conversation with Dave, he and I were standing outside his hotel and he said |
| 1:37.8 | something that struck me and I talk about this in the podcast, which is the idea that lipids are |
| 1:41.3 | the sharp end of the sphere for ketogenic and carnivore diets. So what do I mean by the sharp end |
| 1:48.9 | of the spear? It's the idea that in almost every person that does a ketogenic diet or a carnivore |
| 1:55.8 | diet, you're going to get a rise in LDL. And like many of the aspects of carnivore diet, |
| 2:03.3 | this flies in the face of what we've been told for the last 60 years. And I think this is what's |
| 2:08.6 | amazing about this way of eating. It's such a disruptive concept and we continue to realize that |
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