I Have High Cholesterol, and I Don't Care (Part II)

[GsBBoyDan]

I have bicuspid aorta valve regurgitation. I am trying to halt or even cure it through diet, what should I do!? I am so mixed up between what people recommend for a heart healthy diet! So far I've stopped eating all sugar except from fruit, stopped all processed foods, stopped all vegetable oils, and eat less grains. I am using coconut oil and butter when I need fat. I don't know if I should even be eating those oils even though they're supposed healthy according to alternative sources.

[Theocritus99]

Saturated fat is good for you. I eat a whole lot more than the "Daily recomended levels" provided by the government. People who say saturated fat as bad for you are clearly ignorant or just brainwashed.

[sumbarine]

Yeah if your recovering from a heart attack or have arteries narrowing,eat fatty meats & bacon,see what happens. Name a cardiologist that recommends this after a heart attack

[sumbarine]

Funny,the person I know studying to be a doctor that worked in the Heart attack ward & most people with heart attacks had high LDL.What can prevent high LDL from causing heart disease ? Its not the saturated fat,rather its things like alcohol in moderation,fruits & vegetables that have Vit C & A & other powerful anto oxidants that don^t allow the LDL to oxidize.To suggest u can eat all the saturated fat u like is insane.Saturated fat too much of it,does raise LDL

[OverSoulMatrix33]

basically take the pyramid and invert it..

[OverSoulMatrix33]

high cholesterol is a good thing, providing it is the good cholesterol.. no artery calcification or blockages the higher it is..

[Andreas748]

whatever the diet of the 108 year old man is.....that's what everyone should follow

[malechauvinistxy]

makes me sick.

[bloozedaddy]

great videos,,,,,the evidence is clear....the low-fat folks were politically (no "meaters") and monetarily motivated (statins). Your new food pyramid is perfect. I lost 60 lbs following that basic pyramid. Lipid profile is great...hbA1c down from 13.1 to 5 after the first 3 monhts. It took 6 months to lose all the weight. I do miss some of the carbs....fries and pasta...but I like meat, cheese and good veggies much more. Keep up the good work.

[loopasars]

Why is fruit at the top of the pyramid? why isnt it good for you?

[Schasm]

@loopasars

The short answer is that there is no nutrient in fruits that you cannot get from veggies for much less of a carbohydrate load. Also, fructose is treated very differently by your liver than glucose is.

[malechauvinistxy]

@Schasm so how much carbs is safe?..thats what I want to know.

[malechauvinistxy]

@Schasm This food pyramid make you horny...very horny..u agree?

[sumbarine]

@Schasm Fruit has loads of Vitamins,minerals,flavonoids & fibre that benefit your whole system especially heart.Pectin found mostly in fruits is a antioxidant that prevents heart disease & not found much in veggies.Lecithin too fpond in high amounts in watermelon fights prostate cancer.The medditteranean diet is loaded with fruit hence people living into their 90s.Every cell u have needs glucose,your brain runs on sugar

[90Rush]

@loopasars Fruit isn't bad, but if you have enough calories from that comes with the bottom two tiers, you might not want to eat too many fruits.

[xgravix]

Sorry you are getting so much flak, Chris, this is really a great set of videos. Thanks for going to the effort of making these!

[SexyJane28]

Saturated fat restriction and dietary cholesterol lowering ( as well as non - statin drug cholesterol lowering) ALL have been miserable failures for reducing coronary artery disease mortality and all cause mortality . There are 18 clinical dietary intervention studies examining the saturated fat/CAD issue and NONE are supportive of the farcical anti- saturated fat/anti- cholesterol dogma. The cholesterol theory is bull. Look into Anthony Colpo.

[erw246]

This doesn't make any sense, since Dean Ornish proved that low fat diet rich in fruits and vegetables along with relaxation and exercises actually REVERSES heart disease.

[chriskresser]

@erw246

Dean Ornish proved nothing of the sort. His studies are hopelessly flawed because he doesn't control for confounding factors.

[erw246]

@chriskresser

OK then, show me some studies with the type of diet that you advocate that reverse heart disease, so I'll consider that you might be right.

[chriskresser]

@erw246

I have 15 articles on my blog showing exactly that, all of them extensively referenced with studies published in major, peer-reviewed articles. Do a Google search for The Healthy Skeptic, and when you get to the homepage, click on Special Reports, and then "Heart Disease/Cholesterol" (I can't seem to post a link here)

[erw246]

@chriskresser

Please, name some studies that reverse heart disease with high-fat diet, don't make commercials for your site. I know how to use Google and Google Scholar, so the names of the studies will suffice.

[chriskresser]

@erw246

I'm not advertising my site. I've put hundreds of hours into writing those articles. The information and the links are all there. Why would I do it all over again in the YouTube comments section for one person? Read the article called The Most Important Thing You Probably Don't Know About Cholesterol. It describes several studies that show that replacing carbohydrates with saturated fat protects against heart disease.

[erw246]

@chriskresser

I would also like to see some articles from medical journals that rebuke the way his studies were done.

[chriskresser]

@erw246

Read Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories. Ornish's studies are a joke. You don't need a medical journal to tell you that. He doesn't even use control groups! That's science 101. If you take a group of people who were eating a horrible diet and living a toxic lifestyle, and then put them on a program including a low-fat diet, meditation, yoga, and several other interventions, and they improve, it's IMPOSSIBLE to know WHICH of those interventions caused the improvement.

[erw246]

@chriskresser

"Ornish's studies are a joke."

Yeah, right, and Lancet is a toilet paper.

[kccustomuph]

Thank you so much for this important information.  Those of us who choose to say “No thanks” to statin treatment and who want an alternative view are deeply in your debt.

[StabbyRaccoon]

Good video. in the context of the typical North American highly-inflammatory, diet these blood lipids are pretty important but take something like Lindburg's study of the Kitavans. Really poor blood lipids from all of those carbs, and yet no heart disease. The typical guess is that inflammation is huge factor.

Not that I think that eating all of those carbs and eschewing fat is optimal for health, it's just not necessarily going to cause heart disease at the age of 60 without inflammation.

[chriskresser]

@StabbyRaccoon

It's likely that refined carbs such as white flour and sugar are more harmful than carbs in whole foods and fruits. The Kitvans also live a dramatically different lifestyle than Westerners do, so it's difficult to make direct comparisons because there are so many potential confounding factors.

[halfbonkers]

Chris, Great information.

There are many factors that contribute to heart disease including homocysteine levels, and c-reactive proteins. Even gum disease (periodontal) can cause heart problems. A diet high in fast acting carbohydrates and the 'wrong' kind of oils/fats adds to the problem. Fiber and liquids play a role in moving food through the gut. Lets not forget that no exercise makes everything worse.

It is true that so much of the research is funded by or done by drug companies.