Peter Attia· MD
so the the first thing to notice here is both of these groups of patients started out with quite elevated triglycerides so um they're uh in the first group in the group that was randomized to the very low carbohydrate diet their average triglyceride at the start of this study was 211 milligrams per deciliter that's sky high at the end of 12 weeks it was down to about 104 milligrams per deciliter it fell by about 50 percent conversely the group that started out in the low-fat arm also very high triglycerides to start 187 milligrams per deciliter by the end of 12 weeks they saw about a 20 reduction to about 150 milligrams per deciliter