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hey guys today we’re gonna talk about

your cholesterol spiking when you’re

doing keto and in a minute fasting okay

why is it going up should you be

concerned a couple things you need to

know your body makes cholesterol it

makes a lot seventy-five percent of all

the cholesterol that’s in your body is

made by your body only 25% of the

cluster on your body comes from your

diet okay so there’s a huge feedback

loop from your body’s production of

cholesterol and the dietary cholesterol

coming in in other words when you eat

more cholesterol foods your body doesn’t

make as much when you don’t need as much

cholesterol your body makes more but we

have to realize is that your body does

make cholesterol and it’s there for a

purpose mainly two purposes number one

for structural purposes cholesterol is

needed for every single cellular

membrane in your body 90% of the

cholesterol in your body is in your cell

membranes okay we need that vital also

cholesterol is needed to make vitamin D

and bile and steroid hormones like

cortisol testosterone estrogen those are

sex hormones and they’re also called

steroid hormones alright let’s go to the

second topic fasting when you fast

believe it or not your cholesterol will

go up now that’s weird why would your

cholesterol go up when you do fasting

you’re not eating any fat right well

guess what you’re you’ve already tapped

out your glycogen Reserve now you’re

tapping into the fat reserve and guess

what’s in the fat that has the major

storage of triglycerides and it is the

largest storage of free cholesterol

now triglycerides are used for energy

cholesterol is not used for energy you

can’t burn up your cholesterol so where

is it gonna go well it’s gonna use be

used for repair and/or it’s gonna go

through the liver and out through the

body the bile production which should

increase when you eat more fat should

start breaking down this cholesterol and

then have it exit the body so you’re

just gonna get rid of the excess

cholesterol so fasting in general will

increase your cholesterol which is not a

bad thing and I’ll get to that in a

second all right number three keto now

what are you doing when you’re doing

keto you’re actually burning your fat

reserves okay that’s why the combination

of both of these may temporarily

increase your cholesterol until you you

know reduce all this fat to a normal

amount that you’re happy with and

another thing that’s interesting

if fasting increases cholesterol then

why would you want to fast before a

cholesterol test that would kind of make

it inaccurate wouldn’t it I mean an

average person pretty much spends most

of their day eating and in fact there’s

not a lot of tests that I know that are

being done to evaluate what happens to

your cholesterol after you eat it’s

always in a fasting state which is

interesting so if you’re checking your

cholesterol and it’s high potentially it

could be because you’re fasting now what

is the most important test that you can

do to really make sure that you’re not

going to end up in trouble with

cardiovascular disease it’s called

remnant cholesterol it’s a way better

indicator than so called LDL the remnant

cholesterol is basically what’s left

over from cholesterol once you’ve - the

HDL and the LDL and by the way HDL and

LDL they’re not it’s not cholesterol

it’s certain cargo ships or boats that

are carrying cholesterol so what you’re

going to do is you take your total

cholesterol - the HDL and the LDL and

that will give your remnant cholesterol

okay and here is the rating system if

you’re seventeen or less its optimum

okay if it’s between 18 and 23 you’re

okay if it’s 24 to 29 it’s concerning

and if it’s greater than 30 it’s very

concerning the only way that it’s going

to be in these two categories is if

you’re consuming refined carbs or sugar

or you’re doing something to increase

insulin okay

if you keep your insulin low even though

your cholesterol might be high or even

the LDL might be high you’ll have low

remnant cholesterol why because your

body is using the Turkish rides in the

fat and it’s mobilizing cholesterol

through the body and it’s coming out and

there’s not a lot of remnant left so use

the scale as a better indicator to know

if you’re in the safe zone alright guys

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