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let’s talk about the best carbohydrate

that can actually help you lower your

cholesterol now in some cases

cholesterol is not a problem if it’s a

little bit higher especially when you’re

starting the ketogenic diet because

you’re mobilizing a lot of cholesterol

from the fat cell but let’s say for

example your LDL especially the one that

is pathogenic the small dense

lipoprotein is too high or you just have

very high levels of cholesterol and you

want to lower it naturally what do you

do there’s one specific

food that can help you but I want to

give you just a tiny bit of background

before I reveal that food the first

thing to know is that your body makes

cholesterol in fact it makes way more

cholesterol than the cholesterol that

you consume number two the primary mode

of elimination of excess cholesterol

happens through your bile ducts with the

help of bile salts bile salts are like

detergents they help you break down fats

they help lubricate the colon so if you

don’t have enough bile you can get

constipated and just being constipated

can back up the flow of this excess

cholesterol your liver mix bile it’s

stored in the gallbladder and bile can

help to bind to cholesterol and then

help move it out of the body and it also

gets rid of toxins as well and there’s

two types of bile you have primary

and you have secondary primary bile is

made by your liver

secondary bile is made by the friendly

bacteria in your large intestine and

they’re both in communication very

closely

in their regulation so for example if

you don’t make as much in your colon

then the liver is going to make a little

bit more if you don’t make it as much in

your liver the colon should make a

little bit more they both are in

communication the next question is what

carbohydrate can help you reduce your

cholesterol because typically

carbohydrates will increase your

cholesterol like sugar for example

you’ll end up with high not just

cholesterol but high LDL high

triglycerides but there are three types

of carbohydrates sugars starches

and fiber fiber is a carbohydrate and

fiber is the food that can help reduce

your cholesterol now I’m not talking

about the fiber in wheat bran or Oat

Bran or psyllium seed or the pectin in

apples

those fibers actually produce a very

small almost insignificant effect on

cholesterol I’m talking about the fiber

in

vegetables okay those things that you

probably need to eat more of now I

recommend consuming a good amount of

vegetables in addition to a moderate

amount of animal protein on the

ketogenic plant

in fact I recommend if you’re eating

salad to have anywhere between like

seven to even 10 cups might sound

difficult but it’s not really too

difficult if you just have one salad for

lunch and one at dinner the thing about

the fiber in vegetables is that

vegetables have the lowest amount of

sugar and they have the highest amount

of fiber as well as phytonutrients and

vitamins and minerals fiber in general

does help bind with cholesterol it does

also help modify the absorption of

lipids and fats but fiber also increases

the production of bile

so you have this pool of bile salts in

your body fiber increases that pull as

well as getting rid of the bile that’s

connected to the cholesterol it helps

you get rid of that through the bowels

and so the carbohydrate fiber has zero

effect on your blood sugars Zero Effect

on insulin and that alone will help

lower your cholesterol and the other

thing that’s very interesting about

fiber is that it is the food for your

microbes and when you feed the microbes

this fiber it lowers the production of

cholesterol interesting not to mention

it lowers insulin it helps if you have

insulin resistance and it can help lower

your blood sugars so in summary if you

have high cholesterol you should be

consuming more vegetables to increase

the release of bile to feed the microbes

and of course at the same time make sure

you’re not consuming any sugars or

starches now if you have not seen this

very important video on LDL okay the

so-called bad cholesterol

there’s a lot more to learn about that

and I put that video up right here check

it out