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and the question then becomes does that matter and is it going to accelerate atherosclerosis my first thought is always well what is the inflammation you know is there any degree of inflammation underlying things and we can check that in a variety of manners
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so we probably shouldn't be worried about high LDL in the setting of ketogenic or carnivore diets that have insulin sensitivity
and it doesn't mean that if you have a belief or you can't eat a ketogenic diet or you can't eat a carnivore diet as long as your insulin sensitive
when I see that in people who have a high HDL and low triglycerides and by that I mean at least 50 on the HDL less than 100 or less than 90 on the triglycerides I don't get worried
which has great implications for what we are doing in the ketogenic and carnivores face because many of us have LDLs that are higher than normal but the normal quote unquote but also look very insulin sensitive with low fasting insulin I H DL low triglycerides
I think there's a good amount of evidence to suggest that if you are keto or carnivore if you are limiting carbohydrates for many people their bodies will use the substrate found in LDL lipoprotein particle for energy which means that if you are limiting carbohydrates your LDL may be higher