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Dietary cholesterol is very directly correlated with blood cholesterol levels. You can feed someone cholesterol and directly watch their levels spike. But your

Dietary cholesterol is very directly correlated with blood cholesterol levels. You can feed someone cholesterol and directly watch their levels spike. But your body will clear it if you give it time which is why your fasting cholesterol may not show this if you have naturally low levels. But during that window if time that cholesterol is active in your blood it's not doing you any favors. This is why heart attacks very often follow shortly after a meal.

eatmyshorts 7y ago
That is what we used to think. But it's not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857917 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857917 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109578 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109578 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585286 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585286 Note that dietary cholesterol only correlates to blood cholesterol in about 40% of the population. And even within that group, "Even though dietary cholesterol modestly increases LDL in these individuals, it does not seem to increase their risk of heart disease" (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-does-not-matter#effects https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe... -- emphasis is mine)
- cageface 7y ago
  You're talking about baseline or fasting cholesterol. You can do the experiment of feeding someone a high cholesterol meal, then immediately take a blood sample and see the spike in their blood. This has been confirmed many times.
rofo1 7y ago
> Dietary cholesterol is very directly correlated with blood cholesterol levels. You can feed someone cholesterol and directly watch their levels spike. This is not true. In fact, I doubt dietary cholesterol has any affects on blood cholesterol. Source: eating >= 6 full eggs daily for years; have 8 pack; blood work always on point. And also I've done the same exact thing you mention and it didn't affect my blood levels at all.

eatmyshorts 7y ago

That is what we used to think. But it's not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857917 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857917 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109578 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109578 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585286 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585286 Note that dietary cholesterol only correlates to blood cholesterol in about 40% of the population. And even within that group, "Even though dietary cholesterol modestly increases LDL in these individuals, it does not seem to increase their risk of heart disease" (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-does-not-matter#effects https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe... -- emphasis is mine)

cageface 7y ago
You're talking about baseline or fasting cholesterol. You can do the experiment of feeding someone a high cholesterol meal, then immediately take a blood sample and see the spike in their blood. This has been confirmed many times.

rofo1 7y ago

> Dietary cholesterol is very directly correlated with blood cholesterol levels. You can feed someone cholesterol and directly watch their levels spike. This is not true. In fact, I doubt dietary cholesterol has any affects on blood cholesterol. Source: eating >= 6 full eggs daily for years; have 8 pack; blood work always on point. And also I've done the same exact thing you mention and it didn't affect my blood levels at all.