Ok so here’s the deal with metabolic syndrome.
Dietary saturated fat and cholesterol are not the problem. At all. All of the new research continues to show this. There’s actually a negative correlation between saturated fat and heat disease. And cholesterol is good for you.
The issue is that within cholesterol, it is a very specific set of cholesterol called vldl’s (very low density lipoproteins) that causes issues. These tend to increase with consumption of vegetable oils, which can oxidize and cause inflammation, trans fats, and sugar. So a typical western diet.
What they’ve shown is that the oxidized vegetable oils and sugar cause inflammation which causes these little particles to stick to the lining of the arteries, which is what causes heart disease. Saturated fat will not do this.
So high cholesterol and high LDL isn’t bad unless it’s high because your vldls are high. You should get you vldl checked.
LDL has actually been dropped from the criteria for metabolic syndrome for this exact reason, because it’s a faulty marker. But some drs love to hold onto old science.
Imho, you should look at your A1C/fasting glucose. Your HDL. Your vldls. And your trigs. If those things are good, then you’re good. In your case, your HDL and trigs are both very good.
How’s your glucose? Have you ever had vldl run? How’s your diet?
Much like how insulin decreases blood sugar numbers, but does nothing to improve outcomes, my guess is statins lower cholesterol numbers without improving actual health or long term health outcomes, and they come w side effects. I should note that i haven’t looked into statins the same way I have with diabetes medications, however. I just know a lot of very smart people think they’re harmful, and I know they’re often prescribed because the dr is misreading the lipid panel.
To illustrate my point, here is a typical case I see in r/keto pretty much daily.
Girl goes on keto. Her dietary cholesterol goes up so her LDL temporarily spikes (this usually comes down eventually but as mentioned it’s not an issue). All of her other markers improve. Dr tries to put her on a statin.
https://ibb.co/tqjqybtLet’s review the facts of this case. Her weight dropped. Her glucose improved. Her trigs improved. Her VLDLs improved.
And her dr ignores all this and tries to put her on a GD statin, because her LDLs went up?! Are you kidding me?! Probably because he’s not up on the latest literature and is relying on 70yo science. And the patient knows enough to ask the right questions! It’s almost unbelievable.
And this is the “expert”? It literally makes me angry. So yah, tying this back to my other post on covid, this is another part of the reason why I get irked when I hear about
credentials and the science and experts.
It’s literally another instance where drs lectured people about
the science, only it turns out to be dead wrong.
Just think about
the campaign they waged against cholesterol since the 50s? They told you to swap those eggs and butter for a bran muffin and margarine. And what happened? Turns out the sugar and margarine are the real killers, they were 100% dead wrong. And that was once the science. And it changes every day. And that’s why you don’t censor dissenting views.
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