Dr. Anthony Chaffee on cholesterol and heart disease
This will get you into an argument with your cardiologist.
I went to my gp for my yearly blood test to get my liver kidneys and cholesterol checked, my blood pressure was perfect, I've been on a strict carnivor diet since February the 1st, a week later my doctor called me to say I needed to come to the surgery, I was told everything was amazing but my cholesterol was 10 compered to 4.4 last year, I told her I was on an all meat diet and feel amazing, she told me to eat veg and nuts to get my cholesterol down, I feel amazing and I'm not fussed about my cholesterol and will never take meds in my life.
I told my overweight physician I started eating a carnivore woe. He wanted me to take a statin. I said no. Every yearly visit, he pushes a statin. My last visit, he raved about my low blood pressure. lol I lost 30 pounds over 3 years eating carivore. I'm 70 years old and do crossfit. No thanks to a statin.
I'm a lean mass hyper responder. I am on the carnivore diet. I run 5 miles per day, lift weights, about 13% body fat. Total cholesterol 299, HDL 85, trigs 58, vldl 8, LDL 206 particle count 1969, Less than 90 are small particles. I reversed prediabetes, lost weight, everything improved! Based on my LDL number alone 206, my Dr said I had a 50% chance of a heart attack in the next 10 year's. Talk about a fear mongering statin pusher!
It's Feb 23rd...curious if you've had that debate yet? I worked as a bedside nurse for over 10 years in an acute care hospital. It makes me wonder about almost everything we have ever been "taught" in all aspects of life...I have seen so many things with medications and treatments etc...that I used to question. I don't know how you got into my feed on YT, maybe divine intervention.
My cholesterol was 4.4 ivw been carnivor for 7 month now and my cholesterol is 10 my doctor said everything was amazing but my cholesterol was high, so i said im happy i feel amazing im not taking statins goodbye.
So glad I saw this! I have started carnivore again and saw amazing results the first time except weight loss ? But freaked out after a few Netflix documentaries said animal protein is really bad ! Knew you would have an explanation!!
Dr. Chaffee tells no lies. He mntioned a meta analysis report published in 2020 in his video about kids and carnivore. I went looking. I found a publication by JACC (widely known and respected in the medical community!!) In Aug 2020 (publication #76 I believe) concluding that limiting saturated fats did NOT decrease heart disease AND increased strokes. A long read with a lot of information but the analysis covered many randomized studies and the conclusons were all the same!
2/2/24 I did bloodwork. 2/9/24 I started carnivore. I weighed 292# and as of 4/2 im down to 262#. I had a fasting advanced lipid panel on 3/26 and results scared me. My triglycerides jumped from 95 to 243, total Cholesterol from 186 to 310, HDL from 37 to 26, LDL FROM 130 TO 239. I eat eggs and bacon for breakfast and beef for dinner. no lunch with only water. Have 2 cups of black coffee in the morning
I was on lipitor, which hit me hard, so my Dr put me on Rivistatin that I was on for a year and stopped taking about 8 months ago, I'm getting my memory, and muscles back, and my mood was so up and down and it's better since stopping. So I just got my blood work done and LDL is 190 and total is 269 and he wants me back on a statin and I'm refusing. So I started ice bathing a month ago which makes me feel amazing. Just started cyanne pepper, and some good oils, with a beat root supplement hopefully it helps get it down. I need to see what my sugars were because he didn't even bring it up.