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Cholesterol seems to always be a hot topic on this board, and with good reason. The subject is very misunderstood, due to some really bad science and studies that supposedly proved certain things. My plan is to make some short, easy to understand posts, that walk you through how the Lipid hypothesis was formed, some of the studies, contradictory evidence, etc. I will probably make one or two posts a week if you guys find this interesting. I actually love the subject. I am a little insane with it actually.
So anyway, I am going to give this a shot, andIi hope you all will like it....if you don't agree..that's ok too, it's a free country.
One thing before I start. Often times when people are claiming certain training principles, dieting principles, people often ask for pics as proof to back their theories. BBoy and Phil do this all the time, and I love it. I think it's a very fair question. I am going to show you my picture....so to speak...here are some recent panels I have done. I sent PDF's to Phil and Shelby, so they can vouch for the last set. I did that because i didn't think anyone would believe my HDL could be 60 now with only diet changes since 2008 and especially RIGHT AFTER A SHOW. Notice this change took a couple of years. It was done with diet though..we'll get into that later...
Here is the recent history..
on 5/21/08 here is my cholesterol panel:
Total - 186 - ok by conventional standards
HDL - 18 - this is horrible. This is so bad. You should be at 40 plus
LDL - 153 - very bad - guideline is to be under 130
Triglycerides - 76 - good should be under 150
Result on 9/2/09
Total - 167 - ok
HDL - 33 - still bad but getting better
LDL - 112 - good now
Tri - 112 - good now
Result on 11/12/10
Total - 199
HDL - 60 - off the chart good
LDL - 112 - in range - good
Tri - 136 - in range - good
I have probably 20-25 more sets of panels going back to the 90's. My point is I want you to see how my panels SUCKED in 2008. Now they are the best of my life. All I did was change my diet theories. So there is your picture.
So post #1 - I want to start off by explaining the basic tenant of the Lipid Hypothesis, and where it all started.
The Lipid hypothesis is basically the premise that if you eat saturated fat the concentration of cholesterol in your blood goes up. When this happens, our arteries narrow. Then lastly, this can lead to myocardial infarction or a stroke. That's it in a nutshell....
Now onto the origin of this.....where it all started....
The work of Russian researchers N.W. Wesselkin and Nikolai Anitschkov
So here’s the story. In the early part of the century, they fed rabbits a bunch of cholesterol, and their blood levels of cholesterol rose dramatically. Autopsies did show formation of fatty deposits in the animal’s arteries. They had indeed found the answer to heart disease. One problem, rabbits are primarily herbivorous animals that evolved on plant based diets. They also had success with replicating this with goats, pigeons and other omnivores.
The next step was to prove it in carnivores such as cats and dogs
(more applicable to us). They tried. It didn’t work. End of story. I call this selective science. They only showed the one set of results, and failed to mention carnivores readily metabolize large amounts of cholesterol based on those studies. Guess which we are?
Tomorrow - onto the pioneering (cough cough bullshit bullshit) work of Ancel Keys proving this theory once and for all...
JM
So anyway, I am going to give this a shot, andIi hope you all will like it....if you don't agree..that's ok too, it's a free country.
One thing before I start. Often times when people are claiming certain training principles, dieting principles, people often ask for pics as proof to back their theories. BBoy and Phil do this all the time, and I love it. I think it's a very fair question. I am going to show you my picture....so to speak...here are some recent panels I have done. I sent PDF's to Phil and Shelby, so they can vouch for the last set. I did that because i didn't think anyone would believe my HDL could be 60 now with only diet changes since 2008 and especially RIGHT AFTER A SHOW. Notice this change took a couple of years. It was done with diet though..we'll get into that later...
Here is the recent history..
on 5/21/08 here is my cholesterol panel:
Total - 186 - ok by conventional standards
HDL - 18 - this is horrible. This is so bad. You should be at 40 plus
LDL - 153 - very bad - guideline is to be under 130
Triglycerides - 76 - good should be under 150
Result on 9/2/09
Total - 167 - ok
HDL - 33 - still bad but getting better
LDL - 112 - good now
Tri - 112 - good now
Result on 11/12/10
Total - 199
HDL - 60 - off the chart good
LDL - 112 - in range - good
Tri - 136 - in range - good
I have probably 20-25 more sets of panels going back to the 90's. My point is I want you to see how my panels SUCKED in 2008. Now they are the best of my life. All I did was change my diet theories. So there is your picture.
So post #1 - I want to start off by explaining the basic tenant of the Lipid Hypothesis, and where it all started.
The Lipid hypothesis is basically the premise that if you eat saturated fat the concentration of cholesterol in your blood goes up. When this happens, our arteries narrow. Then lastly, this can lead to myocardial infarction or a stroke. That's it in a nutshell....
Now onto the origin of this.....where it all started....
The work of Russian researchers N.W. Wesselkin and Nikolai Anitschkov
So here’s the story. In the early part of the century, they fed rabbits a bunch of cholesterol, and their blood levels of cholesterol rose dramatically. Autopsies did show formation of fatty deposits in the animal’s arteries. They had indeed found the answer to heart disease. One problem, rabbits are primarily herbivorous animals that evolved on plant based diets. They also had success with replicating this with goats, pigeons and other omnivores.
The next step was to prove it in carnivores such as cats and dogs
(more applicable to us). They tried. It didn’t work. End of story. I call this selective science. They only showed the one set of results, and failed to mention carnivores readily metabolize large amounts of cholesterol based on those studies. Guess which we are?
Tomorrow - onto the pioneering (cough cough bullshit bullshit) work of Ancel Keys proving this theory once and for all...
JM
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