The sustainable diet changes that could reduce bad cholesterol | Dr Sarah Berry
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i've been eating a plant-based diet for 20 years that is reasonably high (35% or more) in fat from things like seeds, nuts, avocados etc and whenever I get a blood test my cholesterol levels are always perfect.
Same. I know a lot of vegans who eat all different diets from mainly plant based to junk food vegans but all of them have low cholesterol
@@Beatrice-nx5ldall fats aren’t created equal though . Saturated fat from almonds is not the same as saturated fat from beef
i'm also 78kg @ 180cm tall at the age of 50. Most of my meat-eater friends cannot say the same@@Beatrice-nx5ld
I do not understand how you can warn against ultra processed foods and advocate for vegatable spreads at the same time.
Just agreat channel tx for all the info
I was looking at the Portfolio diet and seeing a lot of funding coming in even from Pepsi for the authors. Some of the studies are behind a paywall. Some of the studies authors already have a cookbook that was funded by various agencies. The nut and other big food industries were paying them for the study. Quaker was in there as well. NIH has the abstract and a Google Scholar have a few of the studies. Always look at who is funding the studies.
Pure genuus 👌😊
This is such a confusing area and this clip out of context doesn't help. Is a low carb, high fat diet advised by the NHS (second nature) really that bad for cholesterol? It's the only diet I can tolerate and stay slim on. I find 'low fat' foods are a waste of calories and taste unhealthy. And are eggs ok or not and how many can we safely eat? And can we even make much of a difference with our diet if genetic factors play a strong role?
Watch all Zoe's vidoes on the subject. It's pretty clear - meat fat bad, plant fat good.
Low carb, high (saturated) fat, good for weight loss but questionable long term healthwise
Low carb, high (unsaturated) fat good for weight loss and more likely to be healthy longterm
I live on the Keto Mediterranean diet
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Low fat, high whole food carbs is good for health and fat loss because it's very low density. Unless you suffer digestive problems.
check Dr. Pradip Jamnadas lectures on youtube, you'll know so much more about all this really confusing nutrition. I especially recommend watching them on The Galen Foundation channel. I really liked Zoe for their introduction (for me) of gut health, UP food and its importance, but on other topics they are at best lame.
And remember that there's no absolute truth, we know some things about how everything works in our body, but imagine how much more we'll know in 100 years and how much of today's "truth" will change...
I also recommend researching vegetable seed oils topic how how bad they might be for our bodies.
PS.
it seems saturated fats aren't bad, but vegetable SEED oils are really bad, and processed carbs. Anyway good luck with trying to find the truth I agree that it's so fucking confusing...
My experience is that when I reduced my olive oil intake my bad cholesterol level went down, my good cholesterol went down very slightly but the bad cholesterol went down significantly. Olive oil is a processed food and it would be very hard to ingest a significant amount of olive oil through simply eating olives. I know that this conflicts with this new orthodoxy but I think that I think that other factors that needs to be considered are that olive oil is massively promoted by the olive oil industry and olive oil is high in saturated fat.
And is blood cholesterol bad for you this week?
No😅 still the same BS. Eat real food, svoid ultra processed. You will be fine
hello, can someone explain to me please why butter raises cholesterol, especially LDL more than coconut oil even butter has way less saturated fat? what specific types of saturated fats have the most impact on LDL? Which saturated fats (for example myristic acid, palmitic acid etc.) raise LDL cholesterol the most?
It probably does come down to the individual saturated fats within coconut oil and butter. I don’t think we know exactly why some saturated fats raise LDL more than others.
Because butter is 64% saturated fat and coconut oil is 90%. Simple as that, saturated fat raises your cholesterol and for some people dietary cholesterol too.
@@purpleblueunicorn No I think her question is if butter is 64% saturated fat and coconut oil is 90% saturated fat, why does butter raise LDL more than coconut oil.
@@SpookyScarecrowAh you're right. I tried looking into it and found a metanalysis on how coconut oil raises cholesterol by about 25%. In it they say the following: "We identified only 1 eligible trial that compared butter with coconut oil. In this trial, coconut oil significantly lowered LDL-cholesterol and increased HDL-cholesterol as compared with butter, despite the higher proportion of saturated fat in coconut oil.19 However, this result should be treated with caution because it was based on a single study and only cooking fats were provided to participants rather than prepared meals, which may have reduced compliance."
@@SpookyScarecrow Study is named "The Effect of Coconut Oil Consumption on Cardiovascular Risk Factors"
Zoe is encouraging me to eat nuts and I’m really surprised how calm my stomach is and how filling they are. For me this is a swap from dried fruit with nuts to actual fruit and just nuts as my sugar hits, rather than chocolate.
That is nuts. LOL the nut industry is happy.
if at any point, you do miss the chocolate, consider at least trying out some cacao nibs. They have the pure flavour of the cacao/chocolate without all the added junk, and I personally really appreciate its mild crunchiness in my skyr yoghurt. It makes me look forward to having breakfast!
why would I wan't to reduce cholesterol when the cholesteral heart disease hypothesis has been disproved?
You don't want to reduce cholesterol (or take statins) if you care about your brain health into your 70s and beyond. The same is true with LDL as long as you are eating healthy fresh meats and a good mix of colorful vegetables you are good for the long haul. It is not complicated. Stay away from all breads, pastas, corn, cereals, cakes, and candy unless you have a CGM and actually know what these non-foods are doing to your blood glucose levels (and so insulin levels). If you are doing endurance running or riding then you can almost eat whatever you want on the run/ride. I use zone 2, 3-hour rides to clear the excess glucose out of my body and this lets me read 85 to 90 mg/dL on my CGM for about a day until I go eat some high carb Mexican food or chocolate. Takes me at least a day to recover for the next long ride. After these clearance rides my fasting glucose hovers at 70-75 mg/dL. That equates to CR high longevity values and are the only metric that are proven to extend life in worms, mice, and people.
Sarah recommends vegetable oils as healthy whereas other channels say avoid totally ( highly processed) she seems very confused and dislikes butter and red meat which is very very controversal. if you listen to all the yt videos on diet and health you get a full spectrum of strong recommendations from vegan to carnivore.
it seems like there will never be a consensual healthy diet.
I would never use any oil except olive oil.
@@loftonrudolph7586 a little bit of olive oil is ok and the carnivore diet is a dangerous cult! Whole food diet. Stay away from processed food like the beloved processed cheese. We ned to enjoy life easy on flour and sugar products like cake etc. once in awhile enjoy. I cook with ghee and love it.
@@beoz658 My father's moto was eat everything in moderation. He lived a good healthy life for 86 years
CZcams may be a varied spectrum ranging from nonsense to truth. Look at the actual peer reviewed and published clinical science and you will find that the consensus is quite clear. More whole plant based foods, small amounts or ideally no animal based foods plus exercise, sleep and community connection.
Sarah is amongst the least confused people on the planet! This video is taken from a much longer podcast, where (if I remember correctly) she very clearly compares butter v margarine, ie unprocessed but high saturated fat v plant based/healthier fat but ultraprocessed. Her opinion based on ALL factors (including sustainability) was that they’re pretty much level pegging, therefore her advice was to eat whichever you prefer but always in moderation. She herself admits she loves a bit of butter on her toast!
i live in Spain and have my doubts about the Mediterranean diet. What they eat here is loads of white bread, pasta, cheeses, goat meat and lots of sausage. They also like wine.
Mediterranean diet by Zoe has just 'something' to do with the actual lives of people in Mediterranean area. It is an invention of Americans and Brits. Not saying this to claim it is bad or good, just stating a fact.
@@Barbarian75 Apparently yes. Theyre talking about all the fish, fruits and vegetables, but I don’t see that too much. Vegetables mainly to decorate a dish with some nice color and fruit sometimes as a dessert.
What about cheeses? You did a whole video recently on how full fat milk products are good, yogurt, cheese kifer. But they have saturated fats, so are they bad or good!? I was a vegan for nearly 8 years, i ate lots of grains beans vegetables fruit, olive oil, soya, tofu, etc...my cholesterol hardly changed , my blood pressure didn't improve either. One of the reasons i gave up on it, plus i felt i needed more omega3 oils, and decided to eat seafood. I also eat yogurt kifer cheese, and only good quality, also eggs, but not everyday.
If you start eating 50 grams of cocao and drop 50 grams of wheat flour, so like 3.5 grams more saturated fat, I bet it would have a positive effect on cholesterol levels. The omega 3 to 6 ratio is important, and more important for vegans, and different. A omnivore 1:2 is ok, vegan its more like 5:1.
The only way to REDUCE cholestrol is not to listen to what this so called doc is saying. Just eliminate ALL FATS including OIL, NUTS , ALL DAIRY & ANIMALFATS (Vegan+NO OIL & NO nuts). I was able to reduce Total cholestrol from 190 to 145 mg/dL in few weeks only by eliminating ANY & ALL FATs.
check Dr. Pradip Jamnadas lectures on youtube, you'll know so much more about all this really confusing nutrition. I especially recommend watching them on The Galen Foundation channel. I really liked Zoe for their introduction (for me) of gut health, UP food and its importance, but on other topics they are at best lame.
And remember that there's no absolute truth, we know some things about how everything works in our body, but imagine how much more we'll know in 100 years and how much of today's "truth" will change...
I also recommend researching vegetable seed oils topic how how bad they might be for our bodies.
Apparently the fermentation of old cheeses does some magic. I'm very wary of this. Looking studies like "Patterns of dairy food intake, body composition and markers of metabolic health in Ireland" funded by national dairy council show all good things about milk/cheese, but not a single reference to LDL. I think it's really hard to control for other factor such as what those cheeses were replacing. High saturated fat, high salt and high cholesterol cannot be good.
And has your cholesterol changed since you've been on this diet and ditched the vegan? That's the information you need to find out, then you don't have to ask ZOE for advice because your body will advise you. Also if you were eating refined carbs, ie refined grains - then this may have also impacted your blood results when you were vegan. Would be so interested to hear your results - if the sat. fat. in the cheese, yoghurt, egg and kefir has altered your cholesterol or not. Not judging here, just seeking truth and facts like all of us.
What is Zoe saying about vegetable oils like soy/canola etc, that’s refined and without flavour?
Health gurus on CZcams says that the seed oils will course inflammation in our body.
Zoe and all these health 'gurus' are just in it for money, nothing is known or certain so they all can get away with whatever fad they talk about. Every one probably has someone recommending the opposite. Even this video admits it is actually still an 'experiment'. Not a result or fact.
Gil showed they there's no proof of inflammation in all studies on this. However added fat can't be good if you're overweight neither impaired FMV after eating oils. Same story with nut oils.
Isn’t vegetable oil is bad for arteries?
@@david-eh1vg I think it causes impaired FMV, but no inflammation. Is impaired FMV after every meal bad? I don't know, some say it's not, I'd want to avoid it. Also most people are overweight, so adding ultra dense food like pure fats in liquid form won't help and will keep their pre/diabetes alive.
@@purpleblueunicorn
The unsaturated fats found in vegetable oils, when they’re heated, tend to oxidize. In this form, they’re more dangerous to body tissues and can trigger inflammation, a known risk factor for making blood-vessel plaques unstable enough to cause a heart attack.”
time.com/4291505/when-vegetable-oil-isnt-as-healthy-as-you-think/
She needs to Read Dave Feldman’s research
Yes, 16 oreo cookies a day also lowers "bad" cholesterol!
Yep, she's way out of date.
3:30 Can you give me the references when you say that mono and poly reduce blood cholesterol compared to not eating saturated fats at all and on a very low fat diet? I don't think there's study on that and the lowering happen only when you replace butter and other saturated fats by mono and poly. 4:30 You don't have to replace fat with processed food, just eat WFPB. I'm experimented with the portfolio diet because my LDL has always been a bit high, around 125 and I eat no oils and saturated fats and it was the same when I used to eat 4 eggs a day. Now only some nuts and omega 3 providing seeds. I got it down to 90 by adding oat bran, barberries, lots of garlic. Apparently berberine and dry Vit-E will help too (from a mcdougall newsletter). I was already eating all the other stuff on the portfolio diet except the plant sterols, since they need to be highly processed to be enough. My triglycerides are very low and I'm an endurance athlete around 9% body fat. You're saying the Mediterranean diet lowers cholesterol, but it's compared to the SAD diet. If it's not low enough on the Mediterranean, then the porfolio comes in to help.
It really annoys me when someone says X is healthy and later find out it was compared to butter. Like cheese is also healthy now because butter exists. I got to eat some asbestos (instead of butter) and go to bed.
Barberries? I've eaten oats without affect to my cholesterol, but I got it down 10 points or so by limiting sat fat to a minimum of total kcal and duplicating sat fat with polyunsaturated fat.
@@boxerfencer yeah, most people will lower it by reducing sat fat, but I'm not eating any. My gf eats almost like me and has LDL of 50. And it's not oats, it's specifically oat bran. Barberries, because I didn't want to take berberine right away, but berberine can lower 20% by itself. Maybe it messes up the liver, not sure about the mechanism of action. Oh and my LP(a) is high too, niacin apparently helps, so upped my nutritional yeast.
@@purpleblueunicorn tried non flush niacin for half a year or so and it didn't seem too help.
I've had family control their cholesterol with solely oats, and I have an intolerance to oats so I'm weary of trying oat bran, even if it works better than oats. Then again maybe it won't trigger a flare-up.
I also react badly to nutritional yeast, either an allergy or histamine intolerance.
I suppose I could try niacin again, now that my cholesterol isn't as elevated as before.
The thing is, my nutritionist looked at my diet and said there's no improving it to impact my cholesterol. I eat that well.
She did say I could try exercising though. I haven't due to a recurring shoulder injury, but it seems to have stabilized three years after the initial injury.
@@boxerfencer Again, have you tried berberine? This should significantly lower your cholesterol, much more than niacin. I think niacin is good for LP(a).
And pasta and rice ,Cous cous,Noodles are all done with vegetables and protein and are eaten once every week but i eat them once every 2 weeks alternating them. Not all of them. If i have rice i don't eat pasta etc...
How could someone with that last name come up with a different field of profession … great stuff
According to Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Jamnadas on CZcams, He has studies which show people in nursing homes, that those with higher cholesterol lived the longest. Also, it seems to be well know that Cholesterol does not cause cardiovascular problems. What is causing all the typical metabolic disease is, What you eat, when you eat and how often fasting is done!!! So, do not concern yourself with cholesterol! This alone, concerns about high cholesterol, will stop me from using your CZcams Channel. I do Intermittent Fasting, do longer fasting, eat Carnivore. Healthier now than at anytime in my life. Age 70
Wonder if it is reduced cholesterol or ceasing ingesting synthetic substances that improves your well-being 😮
Wow
Where are your references?
i dont think ive heard anybody contradict herself as much as she does
My cholesterol has been about 180 for several blood tests. Now I am fully plant based and my cholesterol is 230. What am I missing? I almost never eat any processed foods. Plenty of oatmeal, beans, nuts, seeds, tofu, and veggies of course. My doctor is not worried about the number...but should I be?
Do you have the breakdown of HDL and LDL? Might be that you have raised your HDL("good cholesterok")?
Yes, true. The ratio is actually the same.@@evlogitos4779
I went plant based 10 years ago. It took 3 years before my total cholesterol went from 169 to below 150. I cut out all oil as well, especially coconut oil because it is saturated fat. I'm 65 years old now.
I suspect that your HDL went up. Mine shot up when I cut out all UPF's and became very active.
I increased saturated fat, decreased carbohydrate. Also decreased subcutaneous fat cell size and increased muscle quanity and function. Had a 60% decrease in cholesterol in a year, including an increase in HDL. Think there is a lot that science ignores.
Liar
@@ladagspa2008 ok
@@ladagspa2008 had to look up my bloodwork. Like I was going by memory, triglyceride went from 8.2 to 3.3, which confused things. Total cholesterol went from 6.9 to 4, so only 42% decrease. HDL went from 1 to 1.1. I was drinking enough bourbon for it to nearly be regarded as problematic, lol. Don't drink much now. Increases in saturated fat was from mainly eggs, cocao, kefir, etc and a small amount of liver. Decreases in carbohydrate was mostly sucrose and some starch. I did start consuming more omega 3 and a bit less omega 6, to improve that ratio. Also a bit more omega 9. Changed from low fat, high carbohydrate to moderate of both
There is plenty of science behind your experience. It is just not known by Dr. Sarah
I don’t understand. I live off a Mediterranean diet and since menopause my cholesterol has gone up and up.
With respect, can you cite the studies that show dietary cholesterol isn't a problem?
Eating soya makes me anxious and crazy. Not for me.
Yep stay away from soya
especially when you're a man@@sandgroper-ig9nk
Yep it is also bad for your thyroid and can cause terrible long term intestinal damage.
Why would I want to lower my cholesterol? Higher LDLC means I'll live longer. More thn half the patients who present with MI have a normal LDLC. It's inflammation and metabolic syndrome, aligned with clotting factors that cause CVD. I'd like to see this woman's research to back up her claims.
Dr Sarah is 60 years behind the recent research on saturated fats and seed and veg oils.
I got my a1c to 4.5 with strict carnivore.
@@kentofmississippi how about a glucose tolerance test? Low A1C is normal on carnivore, you're not eating any carbs and only get glucose de novo.
@@purpleblueunicorn Yeah that was the idea. I think glucose tolerance test actually gets worse on carnivore, but I don't plan on ever eating it again. I'm working on my oxidized and small dense LDL right now. Incorporating more vigorous exercise I am a little out of shape and I will admit that. I'm at the tail end of a massive weight loss so my numbers aren't very stable yet.
@@kentofmississippi congrats on the weight loss, that might have improved your glucose metabolism tremendously. Combined with any form of exercise like walking even better.
It's the other way around. Improving glucose in blood is essential first step to drop fat. Fat comes out of glucose excess. I lost 25kg in three months. Step 1 was to focus on saturated fats instead of all the carbs I was eating.
It should be fairly obvious we mean the old med diet. The one associated with blue zone longevity. Not to be confused with what people eat there now. There are minor variations in different blue zone areas of the med. I may ref to the med diet as the "old blue zone med diet" from now on just to make this super clear. It should be clear, but it seems not! Arguments about Dairy and fish and meat - these were always pretty low. Most protein came from legumes, not meat or fish. And any animal protein was predominantly fish, but still out ranked by legumes by a fair margin. Longo esp has studied the blue zones of the med extensively, he confirms all I say.
Yeah, it’s looking at the postwar diet of Greece, Italy, Spain etc not the current one. There is a lot of agreement of what constitutes the “Mediterranean” diet and what makes it healthful.
Why reduce cholesterol?
7:43 This is wrong. Liver has 4% fat,
My dr told me 2 years ago to go on a low sat fat diet! not lost weight and my triglycerides have shot up even tho I eat all the right things so I am now on full fat low carb and I am already losing weight and hopefully my cholesterol will come down
Low carb high fat isthe true science of health. Well done
Low carb diets are great for losing water. That's the weight you've lost
There are many sucessful diets across the world. Over processed food is the thing our bodies struggle with.
@@ricado372haning lost 44lb low carbing I would beg to differ!
@@ricado372 nice way of showing your ignorance of nutrition
Pretty sure Tim Spector says that butter is better for you than spreads. Which is it?
Sarah is a specialist in fats. Tim likes eating butter
@@veganne6909 Yes, but they both have well-considered opinions taken from reviewing all data and balancing it vs preference. Sarah admits that the studies on long-term effects of spreads are too short and that we need to know more about this. That fact, added to the ultra-processing of spreads, and balanced against the far superior taste and mouth-feel of butter, is probably what has led Tim to choosing butter over marg. Seeing the ingredient list of spreads and knowing that studies show there is no negative outcome from normal consumption of butter (Sarah's own words), means I'm inclined to agree with him. It would just be nice if the message is either uniform across Zoe, or if they're going to have different opinions, to make it a bit easier to define. People watch these things for the best advice and often Zoe confuses things by mixing up 'best advice' with personal opinions, meaning you have to sift through to try and work it out for yourself. Could be a lot clearer.
More confusing content. Sarah is sticking to the science and advocating polyunsaturated spreads, while Tim can't stop telling us we should be consuming the cheese he loves to eat. Still no citations to the studies quoted.
Yes, this annoys me too
he also wants to think his red wine is a good thing🙄
It's not confusing at all, each of these videos are based on science ,health and nutrition, this video is specifically about lowering cholesterol, so it's aimed at people who need to lower their cholesterol. This is why a research scientist who's researching the microbiome recommends cheese because it's a fermented food that is good for the microbiome.
Again, the same principle applies to the polyunsaturated spreads. If you've just had a heart attack and have to change your diet dramatically, then the margarine spread is the healthier option. The chances are that people with very high cholesterol or have just had a heart attack, eat a poor diet, and have to make changes. Professor Tim spector doesn't recommend these spreads because of the damage it may cause to the microbiome.
It seems to me that people think theirs one and only one answer to "it all." There isn't. There's nuance to it all.
That's my take on it anyway. We're all different and at different stages of health. Take in what your needs and goals require.
@@ricado372👌
I'd doubt any advice that lacks nuance.
What to eat????"A NON STOP BALL OF CONFUSION ".
Information is contradiction with Dr Eric Beg channel !
Saturated fats are bad ?? seed oil are good ?
You don't want to reduce cholesterol (or take statins) if you care about your brain health into your 70s and beyond. The same is true with LDL as long as you are eating healthy fresh meats and a good mix of colorful vegetables you are good for the long haul. It is not complicated. Stay away from all breads, pastas, corn, cereals, cakes, and candy unless you have a CGM and actually know what these non-foods are doing to your blood glucose levels (and so insulin levels). If you are doing endurance running or riding then you can almost eat whatever you want on the run/ride. I use zone 2, 3-hour rides to clear the excess glucose out of my body and this lets me read 85 to 90 mg/dL on my CGM for about a day until I go eat some high carb Mexican food or chocolate. Takes me at least a day to recover for the next long ride. After these clearance rides my fasting glucose hovers at 70-75 mg/dL. That equates to CR high longevity values that are the only metric proven to extend life in worms, mice, and people.
There are major studies piblished in Nature and the British Medical Journal that contradict the benefits of "low cholesterol' touted here. I tried posting links but my comments were deleted.
The triglyceride / HDL ratio is much more indicative of health than LDL levels. Why does she still refer to LDL as 'bad'? This is NOT current science
In the US we need A new dollar for dollar tax on investment of pharmaceutical advertising imposed to specifically be used for clinical trials of natural or folk remedies and out of patent traditional drugs.
Why would you want to Lower colesterol?
Sarah is very anti unprocessed red meat, supposedly on the ground that it contains saturated fats. Is she against eating yogurt which is also high in saturated fats?
Nah, probably it is on the ground that it is category 2 carcinogen.
www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat
progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/red_meat
I did a full Keto diet, and my LDL and tryglycerides cholesterol went down to insignificant levels..... that included PLENTY of saturated fat especially cocunut oil. Spreads instead of butter? What rubbish....
I had the opposite experience.
Mine shot through the roof! I have tracked my daily macros for several years and have found what works for me. I'm 70+ and have been off meds for the last couple of years. Keto was not the answer for me.
if your dr // health professional has perfect skin, you should probably listen to what they have to say.
FFS.. I think the food anxiety will kill me before my diet does.
The more I listen to the experts the more confused I get. They all have equally high credentials, yet differing opinions on the same subject and can back it all with hard scientific evidence.
I give up, I'm just going to eat like my grandma who lived to 108yrs.
CZcams video: “The diet that reduces cholesterol…”
Facebook ad: “This is not a diet.”
6:44 thank you for at least saying that.
Plant sterols also get deposited in arteries. Those types of sterols are not measured when you check your blood!
She’s reading it.
Claiming some cholesterol is 'bad' is not a scientific position.
Skip Zoe, read Dr Greger to see what the science says.
He has a biased view and cherry picks his data to suit his narrative.
@@karenphipps902 Big Broccoli?
Choosing what fits your beliefs
What do you mean by "Red meat". Contains red meat more fat than others and is salmon, red meat 🤔
Zoe is still big on blaming saturated fat on things. I'm assuming they mean on average for people. Personally adding some saturated fat in my diet is the only way I've been able to raise my HDL. Nothing I try moves my LDL number.
ive heard her say the opposite saying fats are good , even saturated fats
Raising HDL has never been shown to improve health outcomes. That's why they dropped all development on HDL raising drugs. My LDL was not moving too, unless I did the portfolio diet (with berberine and oat bran).
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When my cholesterol levels reached the point to take action, I asked my doc if I could try a vegan diet with zero cholesterol… and exactly as you said my cholesterol dropped by 30%. It wasn’t quite enough so I had to go on a low dose of statins. Cholesterol continues so drop, so hopefully can reduce the medication even more.
Read something about how "mediterrain diet" was invented! Very olive oil bussines oriented story...
The diet wasn't invented, but the term Mediterranean Diet was coined by researchers whom noticed a pattern of lower cardiovascular disease in certain areas of the Mediterranean. The olive oil oil industry did spend money promoting it during America's anti anything with fat craze in the 1990s.
The trouble with fad diets is much like religion. Lots of hearsay but no sufficient evidence to back it up.
But who judges what is fad and what is not?
Goog grief one minute butter is bad for us then it's not the butter but the spreads that's the problem now butter is bad again. No wonder people are confused.
The only population with an average cholesterol that is optimal is 100% plant-based /vegans.
Yeah, do the Meditterannean diet and add statins because whole-food plant-based is just to nonconformist. 😛
A low fat diet doesn't help with cholesterol? Are you saying something like the McDougall diet does nothing for cholesterol? Seems a bit daft.
4 key words " It's Difficult To follow " followed up by it's more of a science experiment. In other words it doesn't work.
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I decreased my cholesterol by 1/3 by cutting down from about 3-4 eggs a day to about 4-5 eggs per week.
@@dennisward43 I have chickens and had lots of eggs so was eating them. Now I give away about 3 dozen eggs each week. I was thinking since my chickens eat a healthy diet, it would be okay.
Red meat is the number one healthiest food on the planet. These people are be so behind the times!
Great explanation as ever, but your organisation is still presenting a broad dismissal of Red Meat, implying it is “unhealthy” in all its forms. Of course there are hideously unhealthy, highly processed forms…but please don’t tar everything with the same brush. Unprocessed Red Meat can be an extremely beneficial source of nutrition. Please consider people with Iron, Folate or Pernicious Anaemia in future, before you dismiss it on the dubious grounds of “High Cholesterol”. Food for thought, I hope.
There little folate in red meat, it's found in plants. Pernicious Anaemia is fixed with b12 supplements, not more meat. There's not even a difference in iron deficiency prevalence between vegans or omnivores, body is very good at adapting absorption of iron. So you get some good nutriments in red meat, but comes packaged with LDL raising saturated fats and no fiber.
Sorry, but I know from personal experience that is not always the case. Once again, it depends on your genetics. I was vegetarian for 2 decades. I ate heaps of leafy greens and pulses. I got steadily weaker as I approached my 40s…and became anaemic. The improvement when I began eating red meat (in moderation) again was startling, for me. Remember that most humans do metabolise and absorb similar nutrients more efficiently when they are “bound up” within meat protein and fat.@@purpleblueunicorn
The point made by nutritionists for a long time is to limit red meat to once or twice a week which probably reflects how often our ancestors would eat it since they first had to catch the beasts on behalf of their families Nowadays some people, often men it seems, demand meat on the table at every daily main meal. Humans have got used to that being possible because they don't need to be a spear hunter to catch it in Sainsburys.
@@purpleblueunicornwrong. I was borderline anaemic and had very low b12 levels on a plant based diet and taking the supplements.
Many others out there have had the same issues.
@@kinggeoffrey3801Maybe borderline anemic is where we should be all at. Lower hemoglobin is linked to longevity. I'm myself slightly anemic since being young, and used to eat lots of meat. Stayed the same when I went vegan and never prevented me from being in top 1% vo2max or grip strength. What changed is my ferritin went from 300 to 50 which is a great since excess iron causes oxidation. I'm surprised you went low b12 level if you were taking b12 supplements (unless a multi-vitamin which doesn't have much), takes at least a year to drop levels, so maybe you were already low on an omnivore diet and needed supplements already.
Recommending polyunsaturated fats should be criminalized!
Why would I want to lower cholesterol? Oreos decrease cholesterol. Should I start eating more Oreos?
I Don't like oreos.
How many published papers are there about it ?
@@julianshepherd2038 Here is a recent study that lowered LDL cholesterol 71%, by eating 12 Oreo cookies daily for 2 weeks (='s 100 carbs daily), compared to only a 32.5% ldl lowering with 20 mg rosuvastatin for 6 weeks, (this is not to infer that oreo cookies or carbs are healthy) but it does challenge traditional beliefs about the relationship between cholesterol and diet, it's a deep dive from conventional lipid theory. The main author Norwitz has a PhD in ketogenic nutrition & metabolism from Oxford University, and is pursuing his MD at Harvard, this study can be found in Pubmed, open access. Study title below :
Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin therapy in a Lean Mass Hyper-Responder on a Ketogenic Diet: A Curious Crossover Experiment.
Norwitz NG, Cromwell WC.
Metabolites. 2024 Jan 22;14(1):73. doi: 10.3390/metabo14010073.
PMID: 38276308 Free PMC article.
Was her jaw wired closed as a child?!
Such first world problems. I’ll bet barring an accident or some serious genetic predisposition to a disease if you eat like Michael Pollan says….eat like your Grandmother, don’t eat too much, don’t eat too often and walk everywhere you’ll be fine. I added walk everywhere meaning just keep moving 🇨🇦
Michael Pollan looks older than his father.
@@gabriellakadar that is because his father had way more hair. Maybe a question would be why are men balding so muh earlier…
@@deborahhebblethwaite1865 Maybe he's wearing a hairpiece. Some men do.
Male pattern baldness is genetic although sometimes it's a nutritional problem too. According to what I've read, the hair loss can start any time. Look at William and Harry. Harry's got a big bald spot but he's not as hairless as his older brother. Charles doesn't have the most robust head of hair either and Diana's brother sports a full head of hair. Prince Philip also lacked a lot of hair. Now these people have always eaten the best of the best in regards to diet and they have a team of doctors at their beck and call. Probably nutritionists as well otherwise how is they live so long?
And then we can discuss body hair: chest, back, arms and legs. That varies tremendously as well.
Just don't eat animals and there secretions. It will help significantly and animals won't die for your sandwich 😮
ZOE has no idea and Shirley Temple should stick to making cute movies.
New research has shown that lowering cholesterol does nothing to improve health nor prolong life. Zoe needs to check out the latest scientific studies.
Untrue
And very unspecific.
Can you site the study?
That’s because total cholesterol’s effect on mortality is U shaped, with lowest mortality between 210-249 mg/dL. That’s from a Korean study of 12 million people, so it’s strong evidence.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367420/
There’s also some data suggesting that lowering cholesterol below a certain point using drugs increases mortality. This is analogous to studies on blood pressure. In healthy people (those who maintain a healthy 30 point difference between systolic and diastolic), those who naturally have the lowest blood pressure (i.e., systolic near or below 100) have the lowest mortality. But using blood pressure lowering drugs to drop patients with high blood pressure to below 120 systolic _increases_ mortality.
I think that’s the point of the portfolio plan. It’s not a traditional diet, it’s a recommendation to minimize certain foods and maximize others. According to the principal author, “it is a dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods.” And lowering cholesterol in this manner avoids the adverse impacts of cholesterol lowering drugs.
www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/features/portfolio-diet-lower-cholesterol
You’re misunderstanding. She’s talking about the type of saturated fat such as red meat that increases your cholesterol, not the cholesterol in your egg. Please watch the video again.
Why would you want to lower your cholesterol. High cholesterol is healthy as long as you omit carbohydrate.
Cholesterol is ok, until it comes across damage in your blood vessels, what causes that damage, insulin!! Some people with high cholesterol live well into their 90's, some with lower cholesterol die in their 60's.
Higher cholesterol is positively correlated to longevity. Wake up Zoe. Cholesterol is essential for building neurons in the brain, building hormones, and lately, very low carb high fat diets are showing tremendous therapeutic gains in fighting neurological disease and improving mental health. It is fundamentally unethical for you to rely on 1960s sugar industry propaganda for your now disproven cholesterol hypothesis. In persons admitted to ER in cardiac emergency there is NO
difference in high or low levels of cholesterol, yet they all test high for the real culprit, inflammation. DO YOUR RESEARCH.
Do your research lol
Cholesterol vs. mortality risk follows a U shaped graph. Too low _or_ too high increases mortality.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367420/
@@ricado372 Agreed. There are Carnivores that are all in with this eating style so it will be interesting to see how their health is after a few years of this (if they can last on such a diet).
Correlation doesn't imply causation. Cancer causes blood cholesterol levels to drop significantly (Cholesterol level tends to be high in cancer cells). Cancer is one of the leading causes of death, so that's one important reason why (healthy) blood cholesterol levels are positively correlated with longevity, because it means you probably don't have cancer. That doesn't mean that higher cholesterol is causally related to longevity.
@@sundiataq wrong on the summery inferences in too many ways to address.
Dr Sarah is HOT !
Has she been eating chillies?
Another rubbish podcast from Zoe, I'm 65 and morbidly obese and have high HDL and LDL and low triglycerides, recent tests show my cardiovascular system to be in good condition, low triglycerides are the key.
Awesome study of N:1 I think I'll change my diet because of you. Science be damned.
1:46 just wait to you see what they are eating in Gaza… 🫤