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Welcome to Carnivore Talk Carburetor. I like the handle. Mixing fuel and air in the right mixture for optimal performance. 👍 Nice ride brother.  I’m more of a cruiser/bagger type but I like the sport bikes. 

Not a rant at all, just the truth. If given the option of health and life over sugar and death they will usually take the sugar every time.  For many it takes a life changing desperation before they will succumb to the truth. That’s how it was for me.  Just like any other type of addict we often have to hit rock bottom before we are willing to change. It’s a crying shame but it’s the truth. 

My doctor is the same but what’s funny is my cardiologist loves what I’m doing and what the diet has done for me.      I would be honest with him. We are the randomized control studies that prove this way of eating works. If your doctor thinks that his medication is helping you then he will assume the same thing for the next patient. If you are honest with him then he can monitor your results and see that this works and it just may convince him that this is a viable option to good health. 

I´m not sure what to tell my doc either. I could list about fifteen things that are better in my life now, with ketovore diet,including having cut BP meds much lower and quit Statin. I could let doc believe that meds have miraculously healed me... without mentioning quitting some... But then there is LDL- It will be high especially now in the beginning of keto.  I will get caught for healing myself in a wrong way.

I'm sort of in the same boat.  My family doctor has been genuinely supportive of the diet. I think if I had told him about my plans from Day 1 he would not have been as supportive. I let him in on the diet after I had dropped a bunch of weight and told him I had been off my medicine for several months.  He gave me a non-statin sample as he was concerned with my LDL number in the 180's. He gave me the 'separate your eggs' instruction and eat meats that are leaner/less fatty. I chose to not use the medicine and continue with meats, salt and water.  Maybe one of the funnies, is afterwards I shifted into eating to gain muscle so the egg content per day went way up. 3 months later my LDL dropped from the 180's to the 150's, about 35 points. I will admit, I had become accepting of the fact my eating habits might drive my numbers up some, and mostly I was worried they would skyrocket with the additional fatty meats and eggs. When the LDL dropped, I was pleasantly surprised, but equal to that was my confusion.  My lifting has increased and are higher in intensity, weight and over-all volume compared to just five or six months ago. I just started doing actual splits based on muscle groups. I couple that with eating a boat load of food trying to hit my 'needed protein' for muscle growth, especially eggs, averaging 8 or so a day. I have an appointment in a few weeks. I'm debating on my approach. Do I lead off with I didn't use the medicine and through diet and more intense exercise my LDL improved? and see where he lands on my approach. Or, do I go thru the motions allowing him to think the prescription is improving some of my numbers? Decisions. Decisions. I will have another series of blood tests in a couple months. I'm hoping to see continued improvements in my immunoglobulins numbers as well.  I'm a 'knock on wood' type when things are going well, so I am knocking on wood and don't want to jinx the progress, but I do feel like for now I am winning. Pretty good feeling. Scott