Dave Feldman

[@samorr4]

Dave Feldman is a hero of mine. I am an 80 year-old physician who has had great success with a ketogenic diet. Everything is great except my LDL is up so I am a so-called "lean mass hyper-responder" I am NOT worried about my increase in LDL but I hope that high LDL in people like me is of no clinical concern and that Dave Feldman's clinical studies can prove that to be true!

[@johnmartinsen963]

LMHR's unite! Aloha from Maui and the top of the LDL charts!

[@jillengland3277]

I believe it is seed oils that cause CVD if you have high LDL. I’m not sure there us any correlation between high LDL and CVD though except for the case of FH. I was actually surprised to learn that 260 LDL was considered high AND unusual. That kind of surprises me. I wonder what percentile I fall into at 380?

[@johnmartinsen963]

@@jillengland3277 👏👏👏Congrats on the top score I've ever heard of...I haven't checked for almost a year now, so if I beat that next week I'll let you know (last year was 261 and they still send reminders that I have a statin prescription to pick up). My social credit is in the gutter if my new Dr doesn't agree with our hero Dave!

[@jerome4276]

Read Dr Malcolm Kendricks book The Clot Thickens for the missing pieces in this puzzle.. He explains where the cholesterol in plaque comes from. Hint: It's NOT from serum LDL.

[@QueenLogic87]

When is the documentary coming out? Been waiting forever! 😢

[@beejereeno2]

Right? Hopefully before I die...

[@labynoe]

I think we really have NO IDEA what serum LDL and total cholesterol levels (TC) are “normal” for humans, as we only started measuring them in 1955. What was the average LDL and TC level during the 2 MILLION years prior to agriculture when humans were hunter-gathers? While we have the fossil record to show us pre-agriculture humans had larger brains, were taller and more muscular, and had larger jaws with straight, non-decayed teeth compared to after agriculture, there is no fossil record of serum LDL and TC levels. However, there is strong science that would lead to the conclusion that pre-agriculture LDL and TC levels had to be significantly HIGHER than what we began measuring and recording since 1955. Here’s why. By several mechanisms (primarily phytosterol ingestion) we know modern Plant-Based, Carbohydrate and Vegetable Seed Oil-Dominant (PBCVSOD) dietary patterns lower LDL and TC compared to Animal-Based, High Saturated Fat (ABHSF) diets - in fact, this cholesterol-lowering effect is one of the “selling points” used by nutrition experts to recommend the PBCVSOD! However, the PBCVSOD dietary pattern only became possible AFTER the age of agriculture, which began only 12,000 years ago, or 0.6% of the 2 MILLION years of humanity going back to Homo erectus. The remaining 99.4% of humanity during which we evolved to our current state was spent consuming an ABHSF dietary pattern. We know this because there was no way humans were getting enough calories and nutrition to survive on any pre-agriculture plant-based diet, as all pre-agriculture plant foods were much closer to GRASS than they are to the modern versions of the plant foods humans created through selective breeding, genetic modification, and food processing (such as wheat, rice, potatoes, and corn). Pre-agriculture humans had to get most of their nutrition from consuming animals, which are inherently more calorically and nutrient dense/nutrient bioavailable than even modern plant-based foods, and much more so compared to pre-agriculture plant foods. And we know FOR CERTAIN pre-agriculture humans were NOT consuming the cholesterol-lowering high-polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) vegetable seed oils because they did not exist until humans invented them only 200 years ago. So by the time we started measuring and determining reference values for serum LDL and TC, the cholesterol-lowering PBCVSOD dietary pattern had already become universal in developed countries. Therefore, our “normal” reference values for LDL and TC are missing those “likely higher but never measured” LDL and TC levels humans had for the first 99.4% of our existence. Those taller, larger brained, more muscular, larger-jawed with straight, non-decayed teeth pre-agriculture humans were NOT consuming anywhere close to the amount of cholesterol-lowering phytosterols contained in our modern PBCVSOD dietary pattern. Therefore, pre-agriculture LDL and TC levels had to be higher than what we have been measuring since 1955 given what we know about the foods that were available to pre-agriculture humans: 1) Animal-based foods containing saturated fat and low levels of cholesterol-lowering PUFAs; 2) pre-agriculture plants that were far lower in caloric and nutrient density than what we have today and therefore could NOT have been the basis of the pre-agriculture human diet; and 3) ZERO cholesterol-lowering high-PUFA vegetable seed oils, because they did not exist until 200 years ago. All of this points to our taller, larger-brained, stronger-jawed, straighter toothed pre-agriculture ancestors also having higher LDL and TC levels than what our modern foods cause humans to have with the PBCVSOD dietary pattern. And given the fact that cholesterol is required to make the sex hormones (testosterone, estrogen, progesterone), vitamin D, and bile salts, there is an argument to be made that LOW cholesterol is the actual health problem, not high cholesterol. Maybe our rapidly rising rates of vitamin D deficiency, “Low T”, infertility, and poor immunity are being caused by “cholesterol deficiency”.

[@ElPapacitoGrande]

5yr animal based and i can't get my CHOL above 178! My bloodwork is optimal and my ratios are spot on. I'm 6'3 275 50yr and i'm wanting to know if there is any benefit to a higher CHOL for this situation? I drink heavy cream, raw milk, red meat, eggs, marrow, etc.. My levels have been the same for the last few years. My family is thriving! 🥩🥛💪🤙

[@drcrispyjohnson2242]

Dave Feldman 👍

[@eclecticcyclist]

Maybe the paradox is because as Robert Lustig says that there are two types of LDL and only one of them is bad but the tests only measure the total LDL.

[@brenttasker4046]

This totally upends the existing paradigm, and the profit centers associated with it!

[@jillengland3277]

Thanks Dave. Still looking forward to the paper. ⏱️

[@WickedLowCarb]

👍👍👍 for any video in which Dave F is speaking 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@robyn3349]

Thank you!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

LDL / lipid heart hypothesis is one of the biggest and arguably most destructive red herrings in history.

[@Appleblade]

Back in 2016 on a normal, high fast food diet, my LDL was under 190. After 6 years on Keto / Carnivore (and no testing... I'm generally super healthy, so..) LDL registers 313 (total 408). Doc lost his shit. Tried to put me on a statin. lol! Nope. Btw, HDL went from 43 to 85, and Trigs came down from 116 to 83 in that interval. That LDL number is a marker, not a maker of heart disease... my PB is always 115 or 120/70. Never had chest pain working out (I'm 62). Yeah. Would like to have a CT run for confirmation, but it's really hard to worry with no negative metabolic symptoms. Study results like Dave's add a bit of comfort, but I know I'm gambling a bit here. But what are the options? Eat more carbs? lol! That seems really silly. Eat more polyunsaturated fats? That would bring down LDL, certainly, but ... gross. Who wants to eat oily fish... and the MN heart study clearly showed big reductions in LDL when polys were increased and saturated & trans fats decreased... but did not make ppl avoid cardiac events or death, esp. for those over 65... those did worse on the high poly diet and low LDL. (Read the Re-evaluation by Ramsden et al, 2016, online.) So...

[@HollyGeee]

Yes, Dave King of The World!

[@Malcolm-Achtman]

Kinda screwed up. At the 35:00 minute point in this video Brian refers to high 'Total" cholesterol in the study being above 260, with current guidelines saying that 190 is high. Then at 35:45 Dave says only 1 in 1000 people would have an "LDL" of 260 or higher. Well folks, what are we talking about here? Is it Total cholesterol or is it LDL? I know the right answer but the average viewer tuning in might be very confused.

[@BiggieCheese45]

Something tells me that if LMHR are physically active people, then they may be actively mobilizing fat into muscles for energy (Glycogen) compared to other people who are sedentary and not active. Or maybe perhaps LMHR are not getting enough sunlight on their skin daily to use up their excess LDL. Or maybe they are the most optimized superhumans. Who knows, I guess we'll see

[@fiddlestyx21]

Why would high ldl be pathogenic if someone is doing everything right? That makes no sense and leads one to think that the top range of ldl being brought down from 300 to 200 might have been money - driven. Yeah, I said it!!!

[@fiddlestyx21]

When my diet was the standard American diet, my ldl was the lowest ever. Triglycerides were in the 200's, hdl low, glucose was high, etc. Adversely, when I went carnivore, being very active, eating very little to no sugar, no carbs, my ldl went to 301, total went to 372, hdl went to 50, Fasting Glucose went down to 88, Triglycerides well within range, etc. My question is, why would this mark the ldl as pathological? Why would the body increase the ldl only for that to kill the body with cvd? That makes no sense at all. Why would God make the body to kill itself with heart disease if you're doing everything right? It's insanity!!!!!!!