I have had doctors after me to take statins for 15 years. I have always refused to take them. I fast and do keto...best thing I have ever done. My cholesterol never shifts from a very high number but all my other numbers are excellent. I also exercise every day.
Loved it, really enjoyed the way you explained role of LDL in human life. And elaborated that cholesterol and especially LDL are not monsters at all. Thanks a lot, in Pakistan Dr. Waseem is taking forward your message and I am one of the beneficiary. Regards
Thank you Dr. Ali. I hope all people in this planet awakens to this fact. If people will try low carb diets and fasting and not worry too much on LDL, less people will go to nursing homes and old people and everybody will enjoy their life. The elderly will really live and age gracefully. It is heart breaking when I see corporations make money to the detriment of humanity. May all beings awaken to their True Divine Nature.
Thank you Dr Nadir Ali. This is wonderful session. I am from Bay Area.. The way you explained is easy to understand, everyone should spend some time to understand how cholesterol playing important role in everyday life.. I feel people should look inside rather than what is happening outside.. we ourselves make great when we understand better!!
This is what I needed to hear. I juts got my results and my cholesterol went super high after 7 months on keto, and I got scared. However I have low triglycerides, high HDL, low glucose and insulin. I’m waiting for my results of An advance lipid panel to see the quality of my cholesterol🤞🏼🤞🏼
@broccoli Please read more carefully. The meta-analysis you cite first clearly states the harmful effects were found in the group ON STATINS, which would obviously interfere with cholesterol levels. Nice of you to list a few studies you probably don't really understand, but perhaps you might consider that a cardiologist, who dedicates his life to this issue, and has read more studies than you probably by a factor of 100, might be a little more knowledgeable than you .
@broccoli .The fact that you fail to understand how data is by itself actually meaningless without correct analysis and corroboration speaks to a deeper issue. (Taking yourself as an authority when it isn't valid might be the issue here). It doesn't actually matter that we disagree, of course: Feel free to link studies to your heart's content, but it might behoove you to reflect that such studies don't actually "Prove" anything, any more than studies with opposing results "Prove" the opposite. That isn't how medical research works. (p.s. incorporating statins in a study, which absolutely DOES affect cholesterol levels, would , actually, "interact" with your point, but never mind.) Peace.
Thank you Dr. Ali for this very easily comprehensible presentation. The publication of this presentation came just in time, because I was recently informed by my cousin that his doctor wants to put him on statins because of high LDL. This is just the video he needs to make an informed decision about taking a statin. I have informed him of the dangers of a statin, and how they have been shown to lack efficacy, but I am not a medical professional. When he sees this very informative presentation, coming from a highly respected cardiologist, maybe my cousin will be a bit more restrained in following his doctor's advice blindly. Its presentations like this that make me look forward to the Low Carb Houston conference you are hosting. I have already bought my tickets. October 24 thru the 26th can't come fast enough!
excellent summary and packs a lot of information. Backs up what I've heard from other good speakers explaining the evidence. I am a GP and I signpost people to videos such at this. eg female patient in 70s/ 80s who had side effects from atorvastatin , been put on a different statin by colleague as alternative , but real question is whether to abandon statins completely. I think minimal chance of benefit in such a patient makes it an easy choice - abandon statin! But I have to admit to patients I am biased and don't agree with the over emphasis on cholesterol in CVD and the inflated benefits of cholesterol lowering - cholesterol is the cash cow of the Pharma industry in my opinion. I agree with final points about ' low /good quality cholesterol' - taking the lipid profile in a wider context and making rational decision about management , great talk .
So very glad I came across your RUclips channel. Thank God🙏 Thanks a lot doc! This is a legit confirmation why my cholesterol went up as the years went by (years of Internittent fasting, reguler workouts and low carb diet). All my health markers are normal except the total dan LDL cholesterol, they are all high. My HDL is over 80. I'm female and 52 years young, still get remarks of looking younger than my age😊😊
Good for you young lady , you stuck to your guns and are doing very well , I'm on the same path at 71 years old ,and have been given the wrong information for years by doctors , because they don't know any better ,they have been trained by big pharma .
Dr. Ali.I live in the Bay Area and health care is KAISER. I am so frustrated because they still promote the low fat diet and are obsessed with lowering LDL .All of my markers are great and have a higher than Normal total and LDL. And that is all they focus on and immediately prescribe me STATINS . It is like arguing with somebody in the 15th century and telling them the earth is not the center if the universe. They will quote scripture of " AHA" says LDL BAD. How can they ignore science?I wish I could find a GP that understands LCHF. Thank you for spreading your knowledge and maybe someday more people will stop ignoring LCHF and see that all disease is dietary and there are no magic pills to correct bad diet.and to stop calling LDL "BAD CHOLESTEROL"
Currently medical understanding is as if in the dark ages... Believe there will come a time when it is understood that survival is closely linked to 1) high fat intake, 2) high fat levels in the blood, as well as 3) the ability to store energy externally as fat.
Thank you Dr we greatly appreciate your teachings us it is so simply beautiful explained to understand you must love your work and have passion to help mankind may God bless you each day of your life
Great video and explanation of the roles of cholesterol and one of its carriers, LDL. Can you cover the different types of fats and their roles in the body. The common thought is that saturated fat is bad for you and polity saturated fates are good however our body stores excess energy as saturated fat so how can that be bad? After switching to saturated fats and eliminating seed oils out of my & my family’s diet we no longer get sunburn. I believe this is due to the oxidizing properties of saturated fat vs PUFAs. I would love to hear your perspective on fat quality.
To an extent 'Survival of the fattest' makes good sense, since those with the ability to store energy as fat, will be able to survive longer during a famine. Another point to consider: Women who are super-skinny and/or over exercised, end up infertile.
your video series are amazing and excellent. Yes, please create more. I just hope I can convince others to stop worrying about their cholesterol and to concentrate on cleaning up their diets and other life style interventions. You are a true gem Dr. Ali
Our living eating habits & type of diet are basically IF & LCHF. Our mind body are so flexible & resilience that we can have different eating habits & different diet for temporary social lifestyle & adaptation of availability of food. But The Optimum & The Best for our Mind Body is still IF & LCHF.
I have been following a keto-carnivore diet for 6 months now and yesterday I got my blood test results. TG 63, HDL 143 and LDL 649. I'm 27 and I exercise daily.... I feel fine, but my doctor freaked out when she saw my LDL... Not sure if I should worry...
My doc freaked out too. Have a calcium score test and my main artery was moderately clogged since high fat diet. I was offered statins which I do not want or take. I am confused! Keep well.
From my understanding with the ratio of triglycerides over HDL of less than one like yours is very good. Very low fasting insulin and fasting glucose would indicate good metabolic function. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH . I’m not a dr. Just repeating what I’ve learned. You can look up Dr Paul Saladino at the Fundamental Heath Podcast and go through his stuff. He does have a great interview with Dr Nadir Ali. There are mountains of info out there on the subject. Good luck.
@@bobtosi9346 I actually had a chat with Paul Saladino and it really helped me understand how cholesterol worked and that I shouldn't worry :) Thanks for the reply though!!
My LDL us over 450 and I've been on keto for 2 years. I very petite and about 5 lbs over my ideal weight (110 lbs now). Low triglycerides (less than 45), low fasting blood sugar (78)...doctor wanted to prescribe statins. I said hell no. But I have a referral to a cardiologist and expanded lipid panel if I want. I'm going to lose these last 5 lbs and try again.
Dr Ali, this is truly remarkable and we need the cardiologist population to understand this. Do you have a colleague cardiologist that thinks like you and has his/her practice in the Arlington, Texas area? I wish you were closer to my area as I would definitely become your patient.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think that triglycerides form from consumed carbohydrates, so if u lower your carbohydrate income you should overtime decrease your triglycerides. Also when you decrease sugar consumption you will burn bodies saved up sugar called glycogen, so you will lose some weight. I for instance cut of all sugars for a week, and I watch where my weight settles, and then once I add bit of sugar, I watch my weight, if I'm not gaining much or any weight, it means that I burn all of the sugar and none is saved up in my body.
First at all, move your body, get out of the sofa, and reduce your consumption of carbohydrates: rice, potatoes, corn, fruits, fruit juices and sodas, etc. And very important, stop eating the SAD (American Standart Diet).
I did and my Card Screamed bloody murder: I'm seeking a new Card that won't poison me just because I'm 76! :o) After 70 they stop treating you and just feed you poison pills
So that means taking lipid test after 12 hrs fasting is sheer waste. Why would one remain hungry, waste money to see his or her cholesterol and LDL skyrocket. What is the optimal fasting period for lipid test or maybe fasting not required !!!
Thank you!! now, it makes me wonder David Feldman's lower cholesterol experiment, that you take high carb diet you could decrease cholesterol and increase it by going back to keto diet. that tells me high card diet is equivalent to add toxin into body ? also I learned that, also by my self experiment , that on keto I have much lower need for vitamin C to remove toxins.
I'm kinda confused on the thing about LDL receptors not collecting more cholesterol, like if the liver is producing a lot more cholesterol than is necessary, shouldn't there be more receptors to remove the excess or something?
Thank U Dr Ali ~ I have been on Atovorstatin for 20 yrs since my open heart bypass surgery in 1998! I have been drinking vinegar, lemon juice in quarts of water for the past 3 yrs. I have lost 40lbs. I discovered Through many of the RUclips drs about Statins! OMG::: I have aching stiff muscles when I wake in the morning also joint pain. I have been on low car diet for 6 mo. My loose body fat is dissipating. I'm now slim but still have muscle aches and heart pain. Since the heart is a muscle and possibly damaged by the Statins, could it recover? I have been off Statins about 6 mo. I have palpitations is it possible to recover a normal heart rhythm with this diet?
@@chuckkady7282 he probably doesn’t have the time. He is sharing his lectures. My guess is focus is education not social media. People pay to go to his lectures and he provides them here.
You could be depleted of Magnesium? Mg for example assists in absorption of Calcium from the gut, as well as in activation of VitD3 in the liver and kidneys.
LDL idl and vldl all carry the Apob messenger molecule, any time LDL goes up Apob will go up if idl and vldl don't go down and there is only correlation evidence not causative evidence that Apob is bad... Vldl are just triglycerides and are typically agreed to be bad while LDL is more likely good than bad so apob is not as definitive of an indicator as they want you to believe it is
That being said, yes type b LDL is bad as are elevated triglycerides so Apob being bad is only partially correct and ignores the positive function of healthy LDL as Dr Ali suggested in the video and did a great job explaining as well
What if you have a moderately high calcium score (280) but you believe it was acquired while you were on a high carb SAD most of your life. Now I'm low carb, high fat with low Trigs, high Hdl, and high LDL. (300).
Hello dr. Nadir, the cholesterol in LDL and HDL is the same... then tagging it good or bad doesn't make any sense. Increased cholesterol simply means increased cellular repair or dealing with a stressor. Either the source is exogenous or endogenous (liver)... doesn't make much difference... TG increases in blood stream only when the critical limit of PFT is reached ( insulin resistance ).... there is nothing wrong about Tg perse... a HCLF person may not tolerate high fat diet and LCHF person may not tolerate high carb diet..... There is nothing called atherogenic lipid profile unless the endothelium is damaged or insulin resistance sets in.. healthy HCLF people do not have high Tg which means they are good in shifting the Tg in their PFT efficiently.... do you concur sir?
what a statement, you are going to ruin the statins industri, which is about time, thanks for the lecture,you are a genious in explaining complicated things in a great way
since sunlight helps to convert cholesterol into vitamin d, will taking a vitamin d3 supplement raise LDL cholesterol? i do not believe LDL is bad. just curious about D3.
When authorities approved statins I do not think they knew about the good things with LDL cholesterol. By considering your facts in this video I think a reevaluation of the benefit-risk for statins should be considered. Unfortunately the knowledge is very limited among the authorities and their knowledge is very much dependent on the information given to them by the companies. Unfortunately the knowledge among physicians is also limited with respect to these effects. Unfortunately big pharma has enormous impact on which knowledge we should care about.
I have different opinion on your hypothesis about increased LDL with fasting bcoz of ketones..... The person on fasting is going to burn the Fat, the source being mainly FFA (lipolysis from PFT) shifts to liver for VLDL production for it to be packed to be delivered to cells all around the body.... the In VLDL both Tg and cholesterol are there.... after energy delivery (triglycerides ), the VLDL gets converted to LDL,, but the VLDL disappears quickly from circulation where as LDL stays long since their half lives is different say some 30 -60 min vs 2-3 days respectively... hence LDL GOES UP... Your thoughts about this.... sir?
I ate much higher carb in my early 50s and stayed very active and very trim. No meat but occasional salmon from a can. My ldl was calculated at 43, triglycerides in the 50s and hdl of 64. Total cholesterol near 130. Thought I’d see what keto was all about and 4 months later ldl 204! Tris at 60 and hdl 80. Total cholesterol in the 290s. If it hadn’t been for the available information that I’ve found here on RUclips, I would have bailed from the diet immediately. But even though my doctor commented on the ldl, my risk calculation on the labs was below average. Ldl isn’t even a factor in the risk calculators to begin with anymore. What a racket we have out there taking advantage of a misinformed populous. Shame. Shame. If you have numbers as I do, Dave Feldman can help you make sense of them as this video begins to do.
The same thing is happening to me, I'm glad to have caught your comment. May I ask, what kind of test did you take? (You said "my risk calculation on the labs was below average"). So recently my LDL spiked to 268, HDL 68. My doctor freaked out and said that based on my family history I'm at high risk for heart diseases, even though I've been eating healthy with low carb. He convinced me to get on statins. He diagnosed me with familial hypercholesterolemia. I found Diet Doctor website but I don't think I can afford seeing a low-carb good doctor/cardiologist out of state :( I cannot ignore my current doctor either, not sure if I need a genetic testing...
My doctor prescribed me statins and I'm still taking it, not sure what to do. I lost weight when I started out with carnivore and continue with a low carb diet. My LDL spiked to 268, and my doctor is definitely convinced that I have familial hypercholesterolemia. I'm located in SC and there is no keto friendly doctor here. Listening to you say that these drugs cause liver damage makes me nervous. If anyone can recommend resources on FH condition please I'm all ears.
Call Dr. Robert Cywes (The Carb Addiction Doc) as he does medical consults over the phone and accepts most insurance. Find him on IG or Facebook or RUclips. He will go over all of your bloodwork and explain what you should do...
It should make you even more nervous that when lacking cholesterol, none of your cells - including those in your brain - will be able to continue to function normally 😮
My LDL is 333 on low carb and I have FH. But my ratios are good. HDL 89 and triglycerides 92 so ratio is ideal at 1. I have been refusing statin for FH.
"About half of people with xanthelasma have elevated levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, or other blood fats. About 50% of adults with xanthelasma have some type of hyperlipidemia." People with high LDL (with specific genetic conditions) AND triglycerides show to be the culprit. www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/what-can-i-do-about-xanthelasma-on-my-eyelids#
Trans fats. Specifically seed oils that oxidise. Never get a fried takaway ever again because they use cheap seed oils that are put under high heat that causes them to become trans fats.
I think I’ve seen that cognitive lipid level lothlorien study before. Still as confusing as before and most of the p values are not significant. 30:03 the leiden data was used to conclude that in very old age, high bp > 150 was actually better for longevity (below 150 mm hg had 1.62x risk) Blood pressure trends and mortality: the Leiden 85-plus Study, 2013 He’s always grabbing the most controversial or inconclusive studies. I want to know what my bp should be now not when I’m 90.
Essential: LDL goes up with a "high fat - low carb" diet, which sadly involves the need to establish a "my own health specialist" attitude towards society, not the least to avoid being put on statines by fysicians who not all of them takes much liking to "patiants with an attitude". More then equally sad is the fact that what a single flying balloon may establish of a health costing storm through decades might also cost work by hundreds of officially established specialists to bit by bit wipe out, while costs on healths remains still very much actual. This brings with me along a very disturbing "side kick": All the while money remains working politically as a tremendously determinational force, there seems very little point in arguing for the opinion that free will is merely an illusion. One should much rather take care in fighting for the remainences of good will and true will that there are, and hope that also the greatest understanders of the human mind will realise the great need to run along with this while the hope to bring about healthy nutrition enough is still within reach.
But there is good cholosterol..big fluffy, and bad, small bullet like. I have small, cholisterol total 325... also have high BP...so i just started on keto...so im concerned about bullet cholesterol....my CAC score was 0!!
You did good. Going low carb will keep your CAC at zero and your LDL pattern will shift to the “fluffy”. Pattern B to A. Focus on keeping triglycerides low.
I am strict Keto no cheats for 16 months. My labs say LDL-P is 3156, LDL-C 244,HDL 40, Trigs 134’Total cholesterol 311. HDL-P 22.8, small LDL-P 915 LDL SIZE 20.9. LP-IR 69 very high. A1C is 5.0. I am 62 female non athletic. CAC score 14. I do not know where to turn or how to get help. I feel I have hypothyroid but all labs in normal ranges. Where can I find help?
Liza Kiesling I and not a doctor but I highly recommend you check your testosterone and estrogen levels. Also donate blood as much as you can. This will help you health wise. Good luck
I would discuss this with your doctor and get a full metabolic and hormonal panel run. Normal ranges are different than optimal ranges. A good functional doc would be able to see this. You also might suggest a sed rate and crp. You say you are keto, are you in ketosis? Do you check your glucose and ketones?
I am post menopausal since age 48. 62 now. My doctor is suggesting statins, Welchol and zetia. Not taking them.i want to find the cause of these very high numbers. I know I am very insulin resistant. I do fast. 14 day fast (Dr Fung) recently to try to bring my numbers down and the above was my result. I had some eating days before the blood draw.
Liza Kiesling this is good... My thoughts are, your body is healing on ketosis and needs to take time, I know Dr. Adam Nally says it can take a couple of years, but getting the thyroid in order is essential to assist with this. I would definitely find a good doc to take another look at your hormone panels. Best wishes on this.
There are many markers of Inflammation such as C-Reactive Protein and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). If an autoimmune/rheumatological disease is suspeted, there are also more specific markers for that.
Thank you Dr.Ali Your videos are amaziing.I forward them to as many people I can to spread the principles you advocate.please check out millet man of India Khader Valli He talks about what you dont
From the 'Leiden' chart at 30:28, The CV mortality for Middle LDL is 43% while that for High LDL is 52%. This was described as "not statistically significant". Why? It seems quite an important % difference. Also how are these % calculated? Shouldn't these add up to 100%? (They don't)...Thank you for any answers.
Villianising protective adaptations of the intelligent human body, such as increased BP&Cholesterol production... A lucrative business model, successful in controlling through fear, as well as to decrease the population?
I don't understand, for years Doctors have asked millions of people to lower their cholesterol yet you recommend the complete opposite!! I would love to think you are right!!
bottom line is that if ratios are healthy it's okay to be higher. LOW triglicerides, higher HDL and low insulin/ glucose are ideal. With this combination, the higher LDL , according to doc, is healthy
It is actually not based on any hard science. HDL and LDL is not even cholesterol. They are lipoproteins that carry a lot of things including cholesterol. Furthermore, LDL particles carry THE EXACT SAME cholesterol as HDL particles do. There is only 1 form of cholesterol. How come that cholesterol in HDL is "good" and somehow when it's in LDL it becomes "bad"?? That makes no sense lol. Only difference is that LDL carries cholesterol from the liver to the periphery. HDL takes up cholesterol and carries it back from the periphery to the liver. What causes chronic disease is inflammation. If one reduces inflammation throughout their life, it is unlikely that they will get any chronic disease.
@@BarabasCsaba7Thank you! . I assume LDL has a higher % lipids (including cholesterol) than HDL (proteins more dense than lipids). Why do the lipoproteins carrying lipids back to the liver have a lower % lipids?
@@red-baitingswine88161. I would assume it's probably because the periphery (the body) needs a LOT of lipids (including cholesterol). So most of the "cargo" from the lipoproteins gets dropped of and only a small percent that is not needed at that time gets carried back to the liver. 2. Also, HDL can gobble up "malfunctioning" lipids and PROTEINS , and that would also be taken back to the liver. Thats one more reason why there might be more proteins in HDL, because it is coming from the periphery.
They used to think cholesterol clogs the arteries. So LDL being the carrier getting it everywhere, they thought that would be the criminal. HDL transports cholesterol out of the bloodstream and into the liver for processing, so the “good one”. All of that obsolete by now in my opinion.
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I have had doctors after me to take statins for 15 years. I have always refused to take them. I fast and do keto...best thing I have ever done. My cholesterol never shifts from a very high number but all my other numbers are excellent. I also exercise every day.
This doctor is one of the best!
Loved it, really enjoyed the way you explained role of LDL in human life. And elaborated that cholesterol and especially LDL are not monsters at all. Thanks a lot, in Pakistan Dr. Waseem is taking forward your message and I am one of the beneficiary. Regards
Thank you Dr. Ali. I hope all people in this planet awakens to this fact. If people will try low carb diets and fasting and not worry too much on LDL, less people will go to nursing homes and old people and everybody will enjoy their life. The elderly will really live and age gracefully. It is heart breaking when I see corporations make money to the detriment of humanity. May all beings awaken to their True Divine Nature.
Dr. Nadir is likely the best at explaining the mechanisms of lipids in our organism. Thank you for sharing such informative content.
Thank you, I always enjoy Dr. Nadir Ali talks. He’s such an expert in the field and does a great job at presenting it...
Ditto! ❤️ this ❤️ Dr
Thank you Dr Nadir Ali. This is wonderful session. I am from Bay Area.. The way you explained is easy to understand, everyone should spend some time to understand how cholesterol playing important role in everyday life.. I feel people should look inside rather than what is happening outside.. we ourselves make great when we understand better!!
This is what I needed to hear. I juts got my results and my cholesterol went super high after 7 months on keto, and I got scared. However I have low triglycerides, high HDL, low glucose and insulin. I’m waiting for my results of An advance lipid panel to see the quality of my cholesterol🤞🏼🤞🏼
@broccoli Please read more carefully. The meta-analysis you cite first clearly states the harmful effects were found in the group ON STATINS, which would obviously interfere with cholesterol levels.
Nice of you to list a few studies you probably don't really understand, but perhaps you might consider that a cardiologist, who dedicates his life to this issue, and has read more studies than you probably by a factor of 100, might be a little more knowledgeable than you .
@broccoli .The fact that you fail to understand how data is by itself actually meaningless without correct analysis and corroboration speaks to a deeper issue.
(Taking yourself as an authority when it isn't valid might be the issue here). It doesn't actually matter that we disagree, of course: Feel free to link studies to your heart's content, but it might behoove you to reflect that such studies don't actually "Prove" anything, any more than studies with opposing results "Prove" the opposite. That isn't how medical research works.
(p.s. incorporating statins in a study, which absolutely DOES affect cholesterol levels, would , actually, "interact" with your point, but never mind.) Peace.
@broccoli Many, many doctors saying the same thing this doctor is saying!
Dr. Ali is PARAMOUNT!!!! ❤🎉
what great information We need a pod cast with DR, Nadir and Dr, Fung .
Thank you Dr. Ali for this very easily comprehensible presentation. The publication of this presentation came just in time, because I was recently informed by my cousin that his doctor wants to put him on statins because of high LDL. This is just the video he needs to make an informed decision about taking a statin. I have informed him of the dangers of a statin, and how they have been shown to lack efficacy, but I am not a medical professional. When he sees this very informative presentation, coming from a highly respected cardiologist, maybe my cousin will be a bit more restrained in following his doctor's advice blindly. Its presentations like this that make me look forward to the Low Carb Houston conference you are hosting. I have already bought my tickets. October 24 thru the 26th can't come fast enough!
Now I finally understand the high LDL paradox. I fast and eat no or very low carbs. Thank you Dr Ali.
Excellent educational video. Please create more, we need it, the world needs it!
These are the best, most understandable slides I've ever seen Nadir product. Great for lay men such as myself.
excellent summary and packs a lot of information. Backs up what I've heard from other good speakers explaining the evidence. I am a GP and I signpost people to videos such at this. eg female patient in 70s/ 80s who had side effects from atorvastatin , been put on a different statin by colleague as alternative , but real question is whether to abandon statins completely. I think minimal chance of benefit in such a patient makes it an easy choice - abandon statin! But I have to admit to patients I am biased and don't agree with the over emphasis on cholesterol in CVD and the inflated benefits of cholesterol lowering - cholesterol is the cash cow of the Pharma industry in my opinion. I agree with final points about ' low /good quality cholesterol' - taking the lipid profile in a wider context and making rational decision about management , great talk .
So very glad I came across your RUclips channel. Thank God🙏 Thanks a lot doc! This is a legit confirmation why my cholesterol went up as the years went by (years of Internittent fasting, reguler workouts and low carb diet). All my health markers are normal except the total dan LDL cholesterol, they are all high. My HDL is over 80. I'm female and 52 years young, still get remarks of looking younger than my age😊😊
same !
Good for you young lady , you stuck to your guns and are doing very well , I'm on the same path at 71 years old ,and have been given the wrong information for years by doctors , because they don't know any better ,they have been trained by big pharma .
Thanks!
So glad I found this channel. You explain the science so clearly.
Dr. Ali.I live in the Bay Area and health care is KAISER. I am so frustrated because they still promote the low fat diet and are obsessed with lowering LDL .All of my markers are great and have a higher than Normal total and LDL. And that is all they focus on and immediately prescribe me STATINS . It is like arguing with somebody in the 15th century and telling them the earth is not the center if the universe. They will quote scripture of " AHA" says LDL BAD. How can they ignore science?I wish I could find a GP that understands LCHF. Thank you for spreading your knowledge and maybe someday more people will stop ignoring LCHF and see that all disease is dietary and there are no magic pills to correct bad diet.and to stop calling LDL "BAD CHOLESTEROL"
Pay out of pocket to see an out of Network D. O. - Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
Currently medical understanding is as if in the dark ages...
Believe there will come a time when it is understood that survival is closely linked to
1) high fat intake,
2) high fat levels in the blood, as well as
3) the ability to store energy externally as fat.
This is fabulous! Thank you
Good instruction, information. Well done.
Thank you Doctor. Very well explained and easy to understand to a layman like me.
Most welcome!
You are perfect Dr Ali! Every time I have a question, you put out a video on it!!!
Thank You, for all your good work
Thank you Dr we greatly appreciate your teachings us it is so simply beautiful explained to understand you must love your work and have passion to help mankind may God bless you each day of your life
wonderful presentation Dr. Ali
Excellent information 👌👌👌
Dr. Ali has the best videos!
Great video and explanation of the roles of cholesterol and one of its carriers, LDL.
Can you cover the different types of fats and their roles in the body. The common thought is that saturated fat is bad for you and polity saturated fates are good however our body stores excess energy as saturated fat so how can that be bad? After switching to saturated fats and eliminating seed oils out of my & my family’s diet we no longer get sunburn. I believe this is due to the oxidizing properties of saturated fat vs PUFAs. I would love to hear your perspective on fat quality.
To an extent 'Survival of the fattest' makes good sense, since those with the ability to store energy as fat, will be able to survive longer during a famine. Another point to consider: Women who are super-skinny and/or over exercised, end up infertile.
I love u Dr. N. Ali Sir.. you are helping us by giving great knowledge and saving millions of money
Excellent Podcast 🙂👍
your video series are amazing and excellent. Yes, please create more. I just hope I can convince others to stop worrying about their cholesterol and to concentrate on cleaning up their diets and other life style interventions. You are a true gem Dr. Ali
Our living eating habits & type of diet are basically IF & LCHF.
Our mind body are so flexible & resilience that we can have different eating habits & different diet for temporary social lifestyle & adaptation of availability of food.
But The Optimum & The Best for our Mind Body is still IF & LCHF.
I Love to study these things! =) Thanks so much for making this possible; it is such a life enhancement to have this knowledge.
Just the video I needed. It's cleared so many doubts. Thanks Dr Ali. You are phenomenal
Thank you mouse for all the data
I have been following a keto-carnivore diet for 6 months now and yesterday I got my blood test results.
TG 63, HDL 143 and LDL 649. I'm 27 and I exercise daily.... I feel fine, but my doctor freaked out when she saw my LDL... Not sure if I should worry...
My doc freaked out too. Have a calcium score test and my main artery was moderately clogged since high fat diet. I was offered statins which I do not want or take. I am confused! Keep well.
From my understanding with the ratio of triglycerides over HDL of less than one like yours is very good. Very low fasting insulin and fasting glucose would indicate good metabolic function. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH . I’m not a dr. Just repeating what I’ve learned. You can look up Dr Paul Saladino at the Fundamental Heath Podcast and go through his stuff. He does have a great interview with Dr Nadir Ali. There are mountains of info out there on the subject. Good luck.
@@bobtosi9346 I actually had a chat with Paul Saladino and it really helped me understand how cholesterol worked and that I shouldn't worry :) Thanks for the reply though!!
@@lauraangez lean mass hyper responder.... you numbers look like that. :-) peterattiamd.com/tag/lipoproteins-lean-mass-hyper-responder/
My LDL us over 450 and I've been on keto for 2 years. I very petite and about 5 lbs over my ideal weight (110 lbs now). Low triglycerides (less than 45), low fasting blood sugar (78)...doctor wanted to prescribe statins. I said hell no. But I have a referral to a cardiologist and expanded lipid panel if I want. I'm going to lose these last 5 lbs and try again.
Wow, Absolutely incredible information, who would have thought? Dr. Ali would, thank you.
Dr Ali, this is truly remarkable and we need the cardiologist population to understand this.
Do you have a colleague cardiologist that thinks like you and has his/her practice in the Arlington, Texas area? I wish you were closer to my area as I would definitely become your patient.
I am from Singapore. Thank you.
Thanks Dr Ali great video
I'm wondering if high cholesterol can help fight covid associated pneumonia infections...
Great edits
Eat less carbohydrates, which break down into glucose and fructose.
Why would you eat them at all when we literally need exactly zero
Sir please tell about triglycerides how can we decrease them
A low carbohydrate diet (he mentioned that in this lecture) ... probably less than 50 grams a day.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think that triglycerides form from consumed carbohydrates, so if u lower your carbohydrate income you should overtime decrease your triglycerides.
Also when you decrease sugar consumption you will burn bodies saved up sugar called glycogen, so you will lose some weight. I for instance cut of all sugars for a week, and I watch where my weight settles, and then once I add bit of sugar, I watch my weight, if I'm not gaining much or any weight, it means that I burn all of the sugar and none is saved up in my body.
First at all, move your body, get out of the sofa, and reduce your consumption of carbohydrates: rice, potatoes, corn, fruits, fruit juices and sodas, etc. And very important, stop eating the SAD (American Standart Diet).
@@ondrejprazak9231 there is no reason to consume sugar whatsoever
Triglycerides are a byproduct of the body storing glucose as fat so consuming carbohydrates are the cause of elevated triglycerides
I want to get my cholesterol really high and scare a doctor, then refuse the statin and watch them cry.
Fast for 3 days before yr blood test and cholesterol will be near 200. See Dave Feldman;s work for details
Legend!
I did and my Card Screamed bloody murder: I'm seeking a new Card that won't poison me just because I'm 76! :o) After 70 they stop treating you and just feed you poison pills
HIGH LDL Has been proven to let people live longer, that’s good enough for me and I don’t have all the side effects from the statins
Like and share to your doctors
So that means taking lipid test after 12 hrs fasting is sheer waste. Why would one remain hungry, waste money to see his or her cholesterol and LDL skyrocket. What is the optimal fasting period for lipid test or maybe fasting not required !!!
Looks like 21 vegans (dislikes) had a meltdown over this information.
"Lower cholesterol groups had lower IQ"
@@inteq9 well, that explains it. LOL.
Surprise surprise something our body creates naturally is there for a reason and it's to keep us alive and not to kill us
Thank you!!
now, it makes me wonder David Feldman's lower cholesterol experiment, that you take high carb diet you could decrease cholesterol and increase it by going back to keto diet. that tells me high card diet is equivalent to add toxin into body ?
also I learned that, also by my self experiment , that on keto I have much lower need for vitamin C to remove toxins.
How interesting... How much Vit C do you take?
I'm kinda confused on the thing about LDL receptors not collecting more cholesterol, like if the liver is producing a lot more cholesterol than is necessary, shouldn't there be more receptors to remove the excess or something?
Thank U Dr Ali ~ I have been on Atovorstatin for 20 yrs since my open heart bypass surgery in 1998! I have been drinking vinegar, lemon juice in quarts of water for the past 3 yrs. I have lost 40lbs. I discovered Through many of the RUclips drs about Statins! OMG:::
I have aching stiff muscles when I wake in the morning also joint pain. I have been on low car diet for 6 mo. My loose body fat is dissipating. I'm now slim but still have muscle aches and heart pain.
Since the heart is a muscle and possibly damaged by the Statins, could it recover? I have been off Statins about 6 mo. I have palpitations is it possible to recover a normal heart rhythm with this diet?
Chuck Kady this is a good question, I wonder why he hasn’t replied.
@@springteen3743 Lots of times no answers ?????? :o(
@@chuckkady7282 he probably doesn’t have the time. He is sharing his lectures. My guess is focus is education not social media. People pay to go to his lectures and he provides them here.
You could be depleted of Magnesium? Mg for example assists in absorption of Calcium from the gut, as well as in activation of VitD3 in the liver and kidneys.
Well done. Who did the cartoon of Dr Ali?
Enjoyed this. Thank you Dr. One question bothers me: does fasting affect APOB levels and is this dangerous beyond a certain level?
LDL idl and vldl all carry the Apob messenger molecule, any time LDL goes up Apob will go up if idl and vldl don't go down and there is only correlation evidence not causative evidence that Apob is bad... Vldl are just triglycerides and are typically agreed to be bad while LDL is more likely good than bad so apob is not as definitive of an indicator as they want you to believe it is
That being said, yes type b LDL is bad as are elevated triglycerides so Apob being bad is only partially correct and ignores the positive function of healthy LDL as Dr Ali suggested in the video and did a great job explaining as well
What if you have a moderately high calcium score (280) but you believe it was acquired while you were on a high carb SAD most of your life. Now I'm low carb, high fat with low Trigs, high Hdl, and high LDL. (300).
I've learn't that if u take D3 with K2 in high doses it will lean the calcium out of your arteries. Check Dr Berg on YT.
I h'd experienced bells palsy on 6-10. Last mo. / cholesterol of 1200 was on carnivore diet.
Hello dr. Nadir, the cholesterol in LDL and HDL is the same... then tagging it good or bad doesn't make any sense. Increased cholesterol simply means increased cellular repair or dealing with a stressor. Either the source is exogenous or endogenous (liver)... doesn't make much difference... TG increases in blood stream only when the critical limit of PFT is reached ( insulin resistance ).... there is nothing wrong about Tg perse... a HCLF person may not tolerate high fat diet and LCHF person may not tolerate high carb diet..... There is nothing called atherogenic lipid profile unless the endothelium is damaged or insulin resistance sets in.. healthy HCLF people do not have high Tg which means they are good in shifting the Tg in their PFT efficiently.... do you concur sir?
Or what happen with Tmao? That clogged heart artery
what a statement, you are going to ruin the statins industri, which is about time, thanks for the lecture,you are a genious in explaining complicated things in a great way
since sunlight helps to convert cholesterol into vitamin d, will taking a vitamin d3 supplement raise LDL cholesterol? i do not believe LDL is bad. just curious about D3.
Di you get an answer to your vit D-3 question?
not yet. do you know?
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When authorities approved statins I do not think they knew about the good things with LDL cholesterol. By considering your facts in this video I think a reevaluation of the benefit-risk for statins should be considered. Unfortunately the knowledge is very limited among the authorities and their knowledge is very much dependent on the information given to them by the companies. Unfortunately the knowledge among physicians is also limited with respect to these effects. Unfortunately big pharma has enormous impact on which knowledge we should care about.
You are the authority NOT THE GOVT
I have different opinion on your hypothesis about increased LDL with fasting bcoz of ketones..... The person on fasting is going to burn the Fat, the source being mainly FFA (lipolysis from PFT) shifts to liver for VLDL production for it to be packed to be delivered to cells all around the body.... the In VLDL both Tg and cholesterol are there.... after energy delivery (triglycerides ), the VLDL gets converted to LDL,, but the VLDL disappears quickly from circulation where as LDL stays long since their half lives is different say some 30 -60 min vs 2-3 days respectively... hence LDL GOES UP... Your thoughts about this.... sir?
I ate much higher carb in my early 50s and stayed very active and very trim. No meat but occasional salmon from a can. My ldl was calculated at 43, triglycerides in the 50s and hdl of 64. Total cholesterol near 130. Thought I’d see what keto was all about and 4 months later ldl 204! Tris at 60 and hdl 80. Total cholesterol in the 290s. If it hadn’t been for the available information that I’ve found here on RUclips, I would have bailed from the diet immediately. But even though my doctor commented on the ldl, my risk calculation on the labs was below average. Ldl isn’t even a factor in the risk calculators to begin with anymore. What a racket we have out there taking advantage of a misinformed populous. Shame. Shame. If you have numbers as I do, Dave Feldman can help you make sense of them as this video begins to do.
The same thing is happening to me, I'm glad to have caught your comment. May I ask, what kind of test did you take? (You said "my risk calculation on the labs was below average"). So recently my LDL spiked to 268, HDL 68. My doctor freaked out and said that based on my family history I'm at high risk for heart diseases, even though I've been eating healthy with low carb. He convinced me to get on statins. He diagnosed me with familial hypercholesterolemia. I found Diet Doctor website but I don't think I can afford seeing a low-carb good doctor/cardiologist out of state :( I cannot ignore my current doctor either, not sure if I need a genetic testing...
My doctor prescribed me statins and I'm still taking it, not sure what to do. I lost weight when I started out with carnivore and continue with a low carb diet. My LDL spiked to 268, and my doctor is definitely convinced that I have familial hypercholesterolemia. I'm located in SC and there is no keto friendly doctor here. Listening to you say that these drugs cause liver damage makes me nervous. If anyone can recommend resources on FH condition please I'm all ears.
STOP taking those pills!! See my comment....
Call Dr. Robert Cywes (The Carb Addiction Doc) as he does medical consults over the phone and accepts most insurance. Find him on IG or Facebook or RUclips. He will go over all of your bloodwork and explain what you should do...
It should make you even more nervous that when lacking cholesterol, none of your cells - including those in your brain - will be able to continue to function normally 😮
My LDL is 333 on low carb and I have FH. But my ratios are good. HDL 89 and triglycerides 92 so ratio is ideal at 1. I have been refusing statin for FH.
Are you related to Cliff Richard?
Why xanthelasma happen around the eyes when LDL is high?
you mean when the triglycerides are high?
"About half of people with xanthelasma have elevated levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, or other blood fats. About 50% of adults with xanthelasma have some type of hyperlipidemia." People with high LDL (with specific genetic conditions) AND triglycerides show to be the culprit.
www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/what-can-i-do-about-xanthelasma-on-my-eyelids#
My ldl level - 468
how are you 3 years later?
Why does utube always unsubscribe me? On this site?
What is poor quality high cholesterol. What kinds of foods will cause it ?
Trans fats. Specifically seed oils that oxidise. Never get a fried takaway ever again because they use cheap seed oils that are put under high heat that causes them to become trans fats.
I think I’ve seen that cognitive lipid level lothlorien study before. Still as confusing as before and most of the p values are not significant.
30:03 the leiden data was used to conclude that in very old age, high bp > 150 was actually better for longevity (below 150 mm hg had 1.62x risk)
Blood pressure trends and mortality: the Leiden 85-plus Study, 2013
He’s always grabbing the most controversial or inconclusive studies. I want to know what my bp should be now not when I’m 90.
Essential: LDL goes up with a "high fat - low carb" diet, which sadly involves the need to establish a "my own health specialist" attitude towards society, not the least to avoid being put on statines by fysicians who not all of them takes much liking to "patiants with an attitude".
More then equally sad is the fact that what a single flying balloon may establish of a health costing storm through decades might also cost work by hundreds of officially established specialists to bit by bit wipe out, while costs on healths remains still very much actual.
This brings with me along a very disturbing "side kick": All the while money remains working politically as a tremendously determinational force, there seems very little point in arguing for the opinion that free will is merely an illusion. One should much rather take care in fighting for the remainences of good will and true will that there are, and hope that also the greatest understanders of the human mind will realise the great need to run along with this while the hope to bring about healthy nutrition enough is still within reach.
But there is good cholosterol..big fluffy, and bad, small bullet like. I have small, cholisterol total 325... also have high BP...so i just started on keto...so im concerned about bullet cholesterol....my CAC score was 0!!
I had an NMR done and my small LDL are through the roof. Off statins, but feel great. Started 1000 mg Niacin to try to bring the LDL down a bit.
You did good. Going low carb will keep your CAC at zero and your LDL pattern will shift to the “fluffy”. Pattern B to A. Focus on keeping triglycerides low.
22:18 "cholesterol levels went down like crazy" was meant to be strokes went down... iirc
I am strict Keto no cheats for 16 months. My labs say LDL-P is 3156, LDL-C 244,HDL 40, Trigs 134’Total cholesterol 311. HDL-P 22.8, small LDL-P 915 LDL SIZE 20.9. LP-IR 69 very high. A1C is 5.0. I am 62 female non athletic. CAC score 14. I do not know where to turn or how to get help. I feel I have hypothyroid but all labs in normal ranges. Where can I find help?
Liza Kiesling I and not a doctor but I highly recommend you check your testosterone and estrogen levels. Also donate blood as much as you can. This will help you health wise. Good luck
I would discuss this with your doctor and get a full metabolic and hormonal panel run. Normal ranges are different than optimal ranges. A good functional doc would be able to see this. You also might suggest a sed rate and crp. You say you are keto, are you in ketosis? Do you check your glucose and ketones?
Yes I am in ketosis. I do check blood levels on glucose and ketones.
I am post menopausal since age 48. 62 now. My doctor is suggesting statins, Welchol and zetia. Not taking them.i want to find the cause of these very high numbers. I know I am very insulin resistant. I do fast. 14 day fast (Dr Fung) recently to try to bring my numbers down and the above was my result. I had some eating days before the blood draw.
Liza Kiesling this is good...
My thoughts are, your body is healing on ketosis and needs to take time, I know Dr. Adam Nally says it can take a couple of years, but getting the thyroid in order is essential to assist with this. I would definitely find a good doc to take another look at your hormone panels. Best wishes on this.
Sounds real good but this is a presentation for the expert, not the layperson.
It’s pretty simple
Can inflammation be measured and if so, what's the name of the lab?
There are many markers of Inflammation such as C-Reactive Protein and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). If an autoimmune/rheumatological disease is suspeted, there are also more specific markers for that.
Hi Swiss lady,
Well, I was prediabetic and so I wanted to know if my body was experiencing inflation right.
Thank you Dr.Ali
Your videos are amaziing.I forward them to as many people I can to spread the principles you advocate.please check out millet man of India Khader Valli
He talks about what you dont
From the 'Leiden' chart at 30:28, The CV mortality for Middle LDL is 43% while that for High LDL is 52%. This was described as "not statistically significant". Why? It seems quite an important % difference. Also how are these % calculated? Shouldn't these add up to 100%? (They don't)...Thank you for any answers.
I was wondering the same thing. 🤔
Why do you call LDL a bad cholesterol all the time!
Not good or bad, but appropriate Cholesterol... The intelligent body makes what it needs.
@@maricamaas2326 Yes it does.
What happens to excess cholesterol when the liver downregulates the receptors for cholesterol? When it can't process it anymore?
If you're insulin resistant or have endothelial disfunction, it will slip into the intima! apo1 food test measures HDL clearance!
Villianising protective adaptations of the intelligent human body, such as increased BP&Cholesterol production... A lucrative business model, successful in controlling through fear, as well as to decrease the population?
Cholesterol is a molecule, so there are no types. And good and bad has no clinical definition.
I don't understand, for years Doctors have asked millions of people to lower their cholesterol yet you recommend the complete opposite!! I would love to think you are right!!
Contrary also to popular opinion: Lower BP is associated with higher mortality risk.
Bottom line people let ur CHOLESTEROL sore !!
As he said elsewhere: "I'd like you to CELEBRATE, NOT MOURN your high LDL." 🤗
bottom line is that if ratios are healthy it's okay to be higher. LOW triglicerides, higher HDL and low insulin/ glucose are ideal. With this combination, the higher LDL , according to doc, is healthy
What was the original reasoning behind calling HDL "good" and LDL "bad"? The current reasoning?
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Why is HDL "good"?
It is actually not based on any hard science. HDL and LDL is not even cholesterol. They are lipoproteins that carry a lot of things including cholesterol. Furthermore, LDL particles carry THE EXACT SAME cholesterol as HDL particles do. There is only 1 form of cholesterol. How come that cholesterol in HDL is "good" and somehow when it's in LDL it becomes "bad"?? That makes no sense lol.
Only difference is that LDL carries cholesterol from the liver to the periphery. HDL takes up cholesterol and carries it back from the periphery to the liver.
What causes chronic disease is inflammation. If one reduces inflammation throughout their life, it is unlikely that they will get any chronic disease.
@@BarabasCsaba7Thank you!
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I assume LDL has a higher % lipids (including cholesterol) than HDL (proteins more dense than lipids). Why do the lipoproteins carrying lipids back to the liver have a lower % lipids?
@@red-baitingswine88161. I would assume it's probably because the periphery (the body) needs a LOT of lipids (including cholesterol). So most of the "cargo" from the lipoproteins gets dropped of and only a small percent that is not needed at that time gets carried back to the liver.
2. Also, HDL can gobble up "malfunctioning" lipids and PROTEINS , and that would also be taken back to the liver. Thats one more reason why there might be more proteins in HDL, because it is coming from the periphery.
It is in the name. HIGH Density LIPOPROTEIN,carrying lipids to liver.. Ldl is low.
They used to think cholesterol clogs the arteries. So LDL being the carrier getting it everywhere, they thought that would be the criminal. HDL transports cholesterol out of the bloodstream and into the liver for processing, so the “good one”. All of that obsolete by now in my opinion.
22.20 to cholesterol level gone down like crazy...? I thought high cholesterol is better. 🤭🤭
You are correct.
Thanks!