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Your numbers are very normal for a carnivore as far as the cholesterol. Your doctor is ignorant and doesn’t understand what cholesterol is and how it works in the body. He also doesn’t seem to understand the real cardiovascular risk factor and that is your Tryglyceeides to HDL ratio. Yours is stellar. Tell your doctor to go pound sand. Yes, your A1C is high but that can be many things including what were you doing before your blood test. Exercise, eating, poor sleep, stress…these can affect your test results. Do you eat a strict carnivore diet or do you allow carbs, even hidden carbs into your diet? These can factor in. Do you eat or drink dairy? Are you eating too much protein and not enough fat? Review your eating habits to see if there are any carbs that are getting in.

Nothin beats catching your supper. 10.6 pound blue cat. Two big beautiful filets and a bunch of belly meat. Egg washed, coated in pork rind panko and deep fried in tallow. Heart attack style. First batch done and more to go. Good eats right there folks. Fresh from lake to table in just a few hours.

A chuck roast needs to be cooked slowly in a crockpot or in a deep pan in the oven ant a low temperature for a long time. I put a splash of bone broth in my crockpot then season the roast and place it in the pot. Cover it and turn it on low. You can do this just before you go to bed and it will be done in the morning.

Triglycerides can rise on a carnivore diet due to factors like the "triglyceride carryover effect," where high-fat meals delay triglyceride clearance, or insufficient fasting time before blood tests. Some people also see elevated triglycerides when consuming coffee or caffeine around testing.

In my opinion I would tell the doctor to go pound sand if he wants to insist on a statin. No one has ever been saved by taking a statin. In fact, there is plenty of evidence to show that those with lower cholesterol levels are more prone to heart attacks than those with higher cholesterol. Backing off of the heavy cream is certainly a choice you can make and might make for a good N of 1 experiment to see if it helps but personally I don’t think it will do anything remarkable. You don’t have to worry about blockage. It took a lifetime to get your first blockage so why would you think that you’ll get another blockage in just a couple of years? It doesn’t work like that. Besides, blockages are not due to cholesterol. They are the result of damage to the arterial wall from most likely seed oils and the cholesterol is coming in to try to repair the damage. Don’t damage the arteries in the first place and there will never be blockages.

If you can sustain that it’s great. I prefer some variety so I eat a wide range of animals.

As would well all but we find that few are receptive to the truth and even fewer are willing to give up their addictions. The best we can do is be a good example. Be educated and ready to defend our position and be prepared to educate and help anyone who asks questions.

See if this video helps you understand your numbers a little better.

So in American units that comes out to , Total cholesterol 8.4 mmol/L ≈ 325 mg/dL Triglycerides 2.7 mmol/L ≈ 239 mg/dL LDL cholesterol 5.1 mmol/L ≈ 197 mg/dL Cholesterol/HDL ratio 4.0 4.0 Non-HDL cholesterol 6.3 mmol/L ≈ 244 mg/dL The only number that looks out of wack is the triglycerides. To know for sure I’d have to see what your HDL numbers are not the ratio. The high LDL is not an issue in most cases but without being able to factor in the risk ratio of HDL to Triglycerides it’s hard to know for sure. The formula is Tri<100 divided by Hdl >50 = <1.5

I’m liking it so far but it would be nice to have a back button so i didn’t have to scroll back to the top to go Home.

I’m afraid not but you could do a google search for keto/carnivore doctors in your area but there aren’t many. What I did when I found a new doctor was to look for a DO rather than an MD. A DO generally try’s to treat the root cause of an issue whereas an MD treats the symptoms. On top of that a DO has more education and training than an MD.

We are here to help Joel. You’ve already seen the positive results from being a carnivore so you just need to go back to the lifestyle. You’ve proven what works for you.

I love bleu cheese. It makes a fantastic steak sauce when melted with butter.

Fine…I try to learn a new format. You’re killin me Smalls. Just kidding, it’s fine.

Like anything else it’s a tool. It can be used for good or evil.

Very high ketone levels don’t necessarily mean that you are an effective ketone producing machine. As ketones become very elevated ketone clearance could actually decrease. Therefore ketone concentrations are not always synonymous with fat burning. A Ketone meter measures the ketones waiting in the blood steam, it doesn’t count the ketones that have already gone to work. The number on your meter doesn't simply tell you how many ketones your liver produced It tells you how much BHB happens to be in your bloodstream at that moment. If production > utilization→ BHB rises If utilization > production → BHB (*Beta-hydroxybutyrate) falls If production = utilization → BHB stays stable. Chasing ketones is not the whole story and neither should it be. If your goal is weight loss, improved insulin sensitivity, better glucose control, lower triglycerides and reduced hunger or improved metabolic health then consider instead, what is happening to your waist, your body composition, your glucose, your fasting insulin, your triglycerides and HDL, your blood pressure, your hunger and your energy. How do you feel? If all of these things are moving in the right direction but your ketones dropped a little which metric seems more important? We can become so fascinated by ketosis that we forget to ask why we are trying to create ketosis in the first place. Therapeutic ketosis is different from simply trying to improve your health. What is your goal In all of this? Your ketone meter is a tool. It is not a metabolic report card. It measures concentration. Not ketone production. Not total ketone utilization. Not total fat oxidation. Not insulin sensitivity. Not body-fat loss.

I would add to that, yes, there is great benefits to eating only meat over eating only vegetation and that is metabolic healing. 16 different ailments in my body reversed or healed by eating a meat only diet. Carbohydrates were killing me. Meat healed me. Sounds like a benefit to me.

It’s alway good to educate the ignorant. It’s up to them to learn.

Sure you can…if you scramble them. 😁

Rolling smoke on 12 racks of Dino ribs this morning.

As of this writing 1199 days.

That’s great Bob.

I’ve been a carnivore for over three years and have never tracked my ketones or macros. The only thing I’ve ever tracked was my weight and my body measurements. I believe some people can overthink this carnivore lifestyle and make something that’s so simple into something complex.

That’s funny.