Eggs and Heart Health

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[octex]

Have heard of the bulletproof coffee but haven’t been able to bring myself to try it. Seems like you’d get a big disgusting mouthful of oil in the first few sips.
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I also haven’t tried that coffee. ...However, at the next cold snap in weather, you might want to try Hot Buttered Rum for a really great drink!

[TTFX]

“And if the eggs and bacon diet was SO BAD, how did our ancestors live beyond the 1800’s?”

The type of fat in pork reflects the diet of the animal.

So, if the animal is fed coconut oil, you’re basically eating coconut oil when you eat pork. If the animal is fed sunflower oil, you’re eating sunflower oil when you eat pork.

[Yardstick]

I started getting fairly serious about reducing carbs back in February. So it was probably ten pounds in about ten weeks. I’ve always been convinced that it’s carbs, not fat, that makes you fat. I just hadn’t really put it into practice until now.

I will say that when I first switched to low carb I felt slightly out of sorts and low on energy. They talk about the “low carb flu” which typically lasts a week or two when you first switch, and I do think I experienced that to some degree.

[PA Engineer]

I’ve lost about ten pounds just by keeping my carbs under 100 grams per day. I’m usually between 60 and 70 percent calories from fat. I also eat lots of protein. Lots of eggs, cheese and nuts. Fatty cuts of meat including chicken always with the skin on. Butter on everything. Whole avacados. Heavy cream in my coffee and lots of it. Bacon, sausage, etc.

That is a good diet, however for your reference, protein consumption results in Gluconeogenesis (GNG) and can reduce the weight loss from low carb diets and reverse ketosis.

There is a difficult balance between protein consumption and maintaining a ketogenic diet.

[Yardstick]

I have a friend at work who has about a half dozen backyard chickens. He says they’re hilarious. He says sometimes he and his wife will just sit on the porch and watch them. Every now and then he’ll bring me a few eggs, which are delicious with deep orangey yolks.

[Yardstick]

Wow, 39 pounds. How long did it take? I’ve been losing about a pound per week.

[Yardstick]

Thanks — I am aware that extra protein can be converted to glucose. I’ve started lifting weights again so I figure my protein requirement is higher than average.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the links. Missed those on Market Ticker.

I have been doing a great deal of research on ketogenic diets for reversal of insulin disregulation. This includes brain insulin disregluation in regards to neurological disorders. This is kind of a departure from my many years of engineering, however there was an identifiable cause for "failures" in regards to health that paralleled my many years of work.

This is both an exciting and frustrating change. The USDA an Ancel Keys need to be brought up to a tribunal and charged with crimes against humanity. That rabbit hole is very deep.

[PA Engineer]

My cardiologist looked at my lipid panel with the 51 HDL when I asked him what I could do to get it higher. He said "choose different parents".

51 is pretty good. The important number is the ratio of HDL to triglycerides (TGL). If your ratio is (TGL/HDL) less than 2, you are doing well.

[Gene Eric]

The yolk stigma concerns cholesterol. And whether or not the digested cholesterol impacts the effective levels in the bloodstream.

[Gene Eric]

Beware the involuntary opus.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

The study and video at the site says the study demonstrates it does not.

[HotHunt]

I am 68 years old and retired but actively work on my farm raising Angus beef cattle. I walk for almost an hour ever morning. I am more active and feel better now than I have in at least 10 years when I started to put the weight on initially. Now it's coming off and it feels good.

I never experienced the low carb flu, as you call it. Maybe that's because pushing 300 lbs. made me feel terrible, be short of breath and have low energy to begin with. I have lots of energy and stamina now though.

I continue to stay with the high fat, moderate proteins and low carbs way of eating because I continue to lose weight. I'm just over halfway to my goal of shedding 100 lbs. My doctor was stunned at my weight loss and the improvement in my BP and other vitals during my annual physical in January. With the high meat and fat in my diet, she was concerned about my cholesterol, but she needn't worry. It was at 106 in January. She even lowered my BP medication dosages. She was 100% behind my diet and efforts to shed the pounds. Things are looking up.

Thanks for sharing your story.

[T-Bone Texan]

Conventional wisdom states that margarine is made of petroleum byproducts.

[T-Bone Texan]

Egg yolks are a perfect food.

I am currently assisting newborn kittens, and as per my training, I know that in the absence of a mom’s milk, mammal babies benefit from a mix of whole milk with egg yolks mixed in.

It works for all mammal babies.

Works for puppies. Works for baby killer whales. Works for baby squirrels.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes we sit on the deck every evening and have a drink and we cook out a lot. We just watch the hens scratching around. Highly entertaining.

[going hot]

Do you raise turkeys for eggs?

[DouglasKC]

Umm...78.

[smokingfrog]

You ruined it.

[Mr.Unique]

+1