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I went on the Keto diet about 6 weeks ago because I learned I had some serious cardiovascular issues.

I’ve had to have a ton of tests, someof which required fasting. So, at night I doubled up on the far, and the fasting became a breeze.

On Friday I had to have an angioplasty done on my femoral arteries. Finally, it was time to eat. I was handed the starch heavy menu, made my selections.

But the kitchen decided to change some things. Instead of the whole milk I ordered, they sent 1%. And a big pile of pineapple which I don’t like. Why, because the doc wanted me on a low calorie diet.

I’d told everyone that I was on a keto diet, but hardly anybody had a clue as to what that was. The cardio doc tells me...watch the cholesterol. I ended up firing that joker and his fancy equipment ater it was proven that what he insisted (without even looking) was diabetic neuropathy...but actually a clogged major artery. Just had surgery on that Friday.

One thing g that happened very quickly for me was better blood sugar control. I take about a third of the insulin that I used to have to take on a standard diabetic diet.

The nursing staff in the surgical unit we’re impressed with the numbers. And I never bottomed out during the entire time. So I was 18 hours without food, and my blood sugar was 96.

I like that kind of stability.

My tummy wasn’t screaming with hunger either.

I listen to what the doctors say, but then I make my own decisions after thoroughly researching the subject. One example of research involved the use of statins and blood thinners. I don’t like the changes those meds make in one’s physiology. Basically, in my opinion for myself, they impair the body’s ability to heal itself. The meds work for a minute, but not in a healthy way. The meds get one caught up in a catch-22 leading g some folks to an earlier grave than they otherwise would if the focused on healing their bodies.

I don’t see them as beneficial for me.i will take asprin for thinning, because I refuse to go off this keto diet. I feel better than I have in 30 years and diabetes is under control. My endocrinologist will be pleased at least.

I tried everything I could find to try and nothing worked.

Vitamin c deficiency is not good. In it’s absence, the blood gets robbed of calcium as it tries to repair damaged vessels.

My endo- told me that animal fats don’t cause cholesterol problems, starches and sugars do.

If you don’t take in enough cholesterol, your liver will manufacture it for you. How in the world do you control that??

And most people who die of heart attacks don’t have cholesterol issues.

Thanks for starting this thread. I love keto and you couldn’t pay me to return to the diet that caused this problem I have right now.