The conference was certainly in Utah was surprisingly excellent. I was glad to finally do a long form presentation on cholesterol and risk, albeit a little sleep deprived. Linked here is the slide deck.
You can download the PDF of my slides here.
Apr 29
Low Carb Salt Lake – Presentation on Cholesterol and Risk
Hi Dave.
Firstly, I want to thank you for all your research and efforts you have been and are continuing to do to bring us out of the dark ages of cholesterol understanding. I’ve had to purge my mind of much that I took for granted as concrete theories around cholesterol taught to us by white haired professors in med school.
I have one question though. Understanding that inflammation, endothelial damage and oxidative stress (as well as high levels of insulin) are the main culprits behind vascular diseases today. Would you recommend statins for a population with high risk for all of the aforementioned risk factors and would you still recommend using a fat based diet in those cases?
We don’t “recommend” a high fat low carb diet for people in general, although Dave and I are both low carb. If someone had high insulin, high inflammation markers, and endothelial dysfunction on a day to day basis, I would likely want to investigate the root cause of whatever is causing those things if I were in their position. Is their diet contributing? Are they a smoker? Are they sleeping poorly? Identify the root issues, and work on fixing them. If it is the diet, perhaps change it. Low carb, or keto, may not be necessary – plenty of people do well on things like paleo, or just a general whole foods approach in general. Whatever diet helps resolve the hyperinsulinemia and is sustainable to the person is likely what I would go for – what that ends up being, I think, depends on the situation and the person.
Regarding statins, regardless of the situation, that is a personal choice. My personal opinion would be that the person would likely benefit from doing what makes them most comfortable based on their understanding of the research.
Each and everyone has biochemical individuality.Dietary pattern may vary depending on lifestyle,genetics,allergic factors,intolerances,cellular demands etc.The bottom line is to keep tje arteries flexible and supple.As the medical saying goes ‘You are old as your arteries’ .Generally eating food found in nature and in diversity,minimizing highly processed food,food additives are some of the essential steps to healthy eating.
A Pulse Wave Velocity Test which is a non invasive simple test can be used to monitor arterial stifness and modify dietary pattern if necessary.
In that way,we can eat food accordingly without being worried.
Hi Dave,
What speaking events do you have scheduled for this summer?
I’d like to come and hear you speak.
The next one is Ketofest, in July, if I recall correctly.
I saw the video of this. Excellent.
Would be interesting to see how statinated low TG/HDL group compares with this NHANES study. Are statins showing any benefit in this group when looking all cause mortality or maybe opposite?
[…] And for a few examples, see also my NHANES tweets here (taken from my risk presentation)… […]
Could you make the pdf of the slides available again? The link now says the file is in owners trash. Thanks!
Thanks for the heads up – I pinged Dave on it, and it has now been fixed!
@Dave I was trying to track down your CarnivoryCon 2019 presentation on YouTube: “Reverse Engineering the Carnivore Diet” (uploaded 29th Apr 2019) – I do not know if you are aware but, it appears to be unlisted/shadowblocked as it was not showing up on YouTube’s search results; even when using the verbatim title; also, the video is not marked as “unlisted”, which is what I’d expect if Amber unlisted it (verified using an actual unlisted video).
FYI the direct link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFTeZ7JETgI . I was able to find this using a non-YouTube search engine. It does not appear as though any of the other CarnivoryCon 2019 videos are affected. CC.
L. Amber Wilcox-O'Hearn
Interesting, Shane. I’m seeing the same thing on my end. I wonder if that implies its been demonetized for some reason (though I’m not sure if it was monetized in the first place). I’ll give amber a heads up on this.