Can a low-carb diet be bad for your cholesterol?

For most people eating low carb may only be a good thing, even for their cholesterol, raising the good HDL cholesterol and improving triglycerides. But MAYBE for some people low carb has negative effects. There are a lot of things we simply don’t know yet.

In her recent Low Carb Vail presentation Dr. Sarah Hallberg – of TEDx fame – talked about what we don’t know about LCHF and cholesterol.

Table of contents

  1:20  Sarah went into a science-based low-carb practice
  3:00  LDL on LCHF
  5:50  LDL-C and particle size
12:03  LDL research
15:25  Mechanisms for increased LDL
18:15  LDL residence time
23:30  We have to ask questions

Transcript

About the video: Recorded in February 2016 in Vail, Colorado, published in March 2016.
Camera operators: Max Thedeby, Isabel Savén and Simon Victor
Light: Max Thedeby
Sound: Andreas Eenfeldt
Editing: Yana Popova

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Dr. Sarah Hallberg’s blog, Facebook, YouTube.