The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
𝐈𝐟 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧 <𝟓𝐮𝐈𝐔/𝐦𝐥, <𝟑 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥), 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 (𝐓𝟑, 𝐟𝐓𝟑 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞- 𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 (𝐅𝐇), 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐋𝐃𝐋/ 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐁 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐬.
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in the 6.8 or 12.2 percent of the population who are metabolically healthy sometimes eating red meat with saturated fat raises your LDL but you remain metabolically healthy My fasting insulin is less than three I'm not sure if you check your own fasting insulin do you know what your fasting insulin is poor so it's four it's four so you're insulin sensitive too this is great so in insulin sensitive individuals right if you raise the LDL by eating things that I believe are healthy for humans and evolutionarily consistent I don't think that's a big deal and I don't think we should dissuade people from doing that because I think the most important thing we should be focusing on is insulin resistance rather than the LDL with these nuances this is where I think the totality of the evidence leads us wrong leads us astray