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had another question someone wanted to

know is it okay to do fasting and Kate

hell if I’m on heart medications now the

first thing I want to say is everything

that I talk about is not meant to

substitute for your medical care check

with your doctor before taking this

advice this is mainly meant to be used

for more research with you and your

medical doctor that being said there’s

some real interesting points about this

topic most people they’re on heart

medication are either on a statin to

drive down the cholesterol and the LDL

they’re on high blood pressure meds

diuretics also anti-clotting like

warfarin in an aspirin okay and there’s

a lot of other medications as well so

let’s first start out with cholesterol

medications with what a keto diet

interfere with cholesterol medications

well the big question is what causes

high cholesterol what causes high LDL

it’s high insulin hyperinsulinemia

it’s too much instant on the blood and

that’s why diabetics have high

cholesterol and high LDL because they

have a lot of insulin in their blood in

the first stages of diabetes type 1

until it goes down then they have to

then take insulin okay so fasting and

keto will lower the insulin and also

help lower cholesterol and especially

LDL okay high blood pressure well first

of all what causes high blood pressure

will cause a stiffening of the arteries

you guessed it high levels of insulin

and fasting and keto can help reduce

this and help the flexibility of those

arteries now it also mentioned to add

potassium because potassium deficiencies

alone can cause high blood pressure and

if anyone disagrees with you

ask them what diet you should be on a

high carbohydrate diet you want to add

more carbs to raise more insulin it’s

just going to actually spike your blood

pressure more and then the idea of

reducing salt is fine but you need to

also increase your potassium because

potassium is sodium work together and

the more ratio of

to sodium that you have the better the

blood pressure

the problem with diuretics is it pulls

out potassium so it creates a potassium

deficiency making the sodium actually

more and when you have low potassium you

actually increase insulin resistance and

it causes more insulin so not a good

combination okay then you have

anti-clotting what causes a clot in the

first place high insulin so by doing

fasting and in keto lowering your carbs

you can reduce the risk of stroke and

cardiovascular accidents now if you’re

on warfarin you can’t do leafy greens so

you’re gonna have to watch the video

below and make mental note of all the

vegetables that you can have that are

low in vitamin k1 now the other an

interesting point about the heart that

is different than skeletal muscle is

this the heart muscle does not have a

glycogen reserve it doesn’t store sugar

like muscle tissue the heart muscle

prefers to run on ketones and fatty

acids in fact 85% of the fuel for the

heart is fatty acids so it loves fat why

wouldn’t you want to do a keto diet now

there’s another interesting study that

talks about high insulin

hyperinsulinemia as a predictor for

major adverse cardiovascular events so

the healthy version of keto and

interment fasting are especially

beneficial to the heart hopefully the

eventual goal is to wean yourself off

this with the help of your doctors but

you need a long-term plan to get at the

root of this problem which is this right

here and by the way this is behind the

metabolic syndrome which basically

describes a high cholesterol high blood

pressure diabetes and belly fat anyway

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