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Do you avoid red meat? Also, do you worry about cholesterol intake from the meat and eggs?
by biswaroop 6y ago
Do you avoid red meat? Also, do you worry about cholesterol intake from the meat and eggs?
- StacyC 6y agoI eat quite a lot of red meat, ribeye when I can, ground beef. Also pork, some fish. I prefer beef with a bit of fat. I am convinced that dietary fat and cholesterol are not the problem as we have been told for decades. My blood work is excellent. In fact, my doctor is on board with what I am doing but she also doesn’t quite know what to make of it. I think she still has some cognitive dissonance with someone eating the way I do and seeing the results that, per her training, should not be happening. I also used to take 50mg of Losartan for blood pressure but I no longer need it.
- biswaroop 6y agoAh well my concern with eating red meat is related to the cancer risk and the impact on climate change. Are you worried about these issues in relation to your diet?
- norswap 6y agoThe health "risks" of red meat have been really overblown, see this meta-review (there are also two others by the same others, looking at slightly different questions): https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2019-zeraatkar.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2019-zeraatkar.pdf
- biswaroop 6y agoHow do you feel about the climate change impact due to red meat production? I can't really imagine any way to decrease that other than drastically decreasing red meat consumption.
- norswap 6y agoI honestly haven't looked into it. I have heard some people say the idea that it's vastly more polluting than farming (farming what exactly?) is not entirely accurate. So there is at least some amount of controversy. I know that in my country (Belgium), cattle is often fed the excess and/or unused part of some local productions (beetroot, hay from the farm ...). So that actually sounds useful to prevent waste.
- jacobjuul 6y agoyou don't say how much you eat, but are you testing your ketones after eating meat? Protein in moderate to high quantities (especially lean proteins) can pull you out of ketoses quite easily.
- dan00 6y agoYou might be interested what Dave Feldman has to say about the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LuKwsz9Woc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LuKwsz9Woc I really like his engineering approach.
- StacyC 6y agoBefore my last blood test a few months ago I decided to try the “Feldman Protocol” as an experiment — a week before the test I ate nothing but meat and eggs, very high in protein and fat. The results were as Feldman’s work predicts. My HDL was up (67), triglycerides down (60). When my doctor got the results she called me and the conversation went like this: Doc: I got your bloodwork results in today. Me: And? Doc: I have really good news. Me: Great! Doc: What are you doing? I explained a little about the Feldman Protocol and she went quiet for a while, and finally said, well, keep doing what you’re doing I guess.
- jasonpeacock 6y agoDietary cholesterol != blood cholesterol. In fact, carbs are metabolized into cholesterol, so really you need to be avoiding bread if you want to lower your cholesterol, not eggs.