Butter is great for you... provided you aren't at a calorie excess and overweight. I did a fair bit of research on this, because I was worried about using copious amounts of butter during my "steak and eggs" diet.
There are two types of cholesterol, HDL and LDL. LDL is "bad cholesterol" because it's small, hard, gets stuck, and accumulates over time in your arteries. This causes blockages, or if a big chunk gets loose, it can clog up other, smaller arteries. HDL is large and soft, and helps collect LDL so that they can be taken to the kidneys to be filtered out. Also worth noting is that it's chemicals such as chlorine in water that cause scratches in your arteries in the first place, otherwise the LDL would have nothing to grab onto, but considering what nasties can hide in water, I'll take the chlorine.
This explains it better than I did: http://blog.wellnessfx.com/2013/10/17/cholesterol-wrong-all-along/
Of course, as with everything concerning vitamins and food, what's good and bad changes all the time, take everything with a (metaphorical) pinch of salt, and don't go too extreme either way.
tl;dr: butter is good for you stop spreading facts in a disinformation sub ;)
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I hope people will read your comment. I didn't know this.
Not many people do, that's why they eat margarine instead of butter. There was a huge push (that's still ongoing) against fats, and everything is labelled "fat-free" where instead they just fill it full of sugar, but the damage is done, and people avoid animal fats in general if they're trying to be "healthy".
At the end of the day, you have to do your own research. Understand that a lot of stuff comes from paid research that it meant to push a product rather than in the interests of science and truth. Also, different people can and will respond in different ways depending on age, race, sex, etc. The only way to know for sure is getting a blood test done, doing your diet for a while, retesting, and comparing the results. Anything else is just guess work.
you can break LDL into different "particles" too. there is a dense and and a lighter particle (i forget the name and too lazy to look up its like LDL-XX). the dense ones are the ones that collect to arteries. also a carb heavy diet can cause inflammation making the problem worse.
this is why a standard blood test is crazy high in LDL on keto, they are the light "fluffy" ones (which are harmless), not the dense. there is a different test you can do that breaks it down... really the standard cholesterol test is worthless
I had a blood test, holy shit they called me wanted me on every type of medication..... im like "i'll get back to you" still here.
the whole "cholesterol is bad" is a myth... you need cholesterol, you body makes more cholesterol than you could ever eat in a day under normal circumstances.
Thanks for that information.
Just goes to show that no matter how much basic or fundamental information you think you know about a topic, there's always more to it than you realise...
I looked it up, I think this is what you're referring to: https://www.docsopinion.com/2012/11/21/the-difference-between-ldl-c-and-ldl-p/
In Australia at least, the system is such that you go to the doctor only when something is wrong. So it's quite unusual to go there just for a check up. They look at me funny when I say I want to test my LDL and HDL levels... I wonder what they'll say when I ask for LDL to be further broken up into LDL-C and LDL-P.
Are currently on kept now? How do you find it? I used it before to drop weight, but not for more than a month or so. Right now, full on keto isn't really an option for me because I'm a hard gainer, but my hope is to use it later full time when I reach my goals and just need to do maintenance.
Also, yeah, don't take meds unless you have to. Modify your diet if it's a problem, and go from there. Is there any incentive for a doctor to sell you meds in your country? If so, that probably explains a lot of it.
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