Posted on 01/25/2026 9:05:10 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A short-term oat-based diet appears to be surprisingly effective at reducing the cholesterol level. This is indicated by a trial. The participants suffered from a metabolic syndrome—a combination of high body weight, high blood pressure, and elevated blood glucose and blood lipid levels. They consumed a calorie-reduced diet, consisting almost exclusively of oatmeal, for two days. Their cholesterol levels then improved significantly compared to a control group. Even after six weeks, this effect remained stable. The diet apparently influenced the composition of microorganisms in the gut.
Although the test subjects in the current trial were not diabetic, they suffered from a metabolic syndrome associated with an increased risk of diabetes. The characteristics include excess body weight, high blood pressure, an elevated blood sugar level, and lipid metabolism disorders.
The participants were asked to exclusively eat oatmeal, which they had previously boiled in water, three times a day. They were only allowed to add some fruit or vegetables to their meals. A total of 32 women and men completed this oat-based diet. They ate 300 grams of oatmeal on each of the two days and only consumed around half of their normal calories. A control group was also put on a calorie-reduced diet, although this did not consist of oats.
Both groups benefited from the change in diet. However, the effect was much more pronounced for the participants who followed the oat-based diet. "The level of particularly harmful LDL cholesterol fell by 10 percent for them—that is a substantial reduction, although not entirely comparable to the effect of modern medications," stresses Simon. "They also lost two kilos in weight on average and their blood pressure fell slightly."
A six-week diet, in which the participants consumed 80 grams of oats per day, without any other restrictions, achieved small effects.
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Oatmeal is a complex carbohydrate with a low glycemic index, which means it is digested slowly, preventing spikes in blood sugar rendering it more stable. It’s high fiber content helps control appetite and reduce cholesterol levels as well.
For later
...if you can survive it mentally...
The keep lowering what is “normal” cholesterol.
Meanwhile, dementia is making inroads in younger and younger people.
Some 35% of the USA is on statins.
You have been fooled. (Again).
Cholesterol is not bad, it’s the inflammation that is.
STOP EATING CRAP! (seed oils especially!)
I have an acquaintance who shocked his doctor by taking oatmeal every morning for a few months, which drastically reduced his bad cholesterol. He was think and not diabetic, but for some reason had bad cholesterol numbers.
I make overnight steel-cut oats; that way it’s ready in the morning and you don’t have to stand there and tend it while it cooks. You can put lots of different things in it, but I like it plain with butter:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/overnight-steel-cut-oats/
Or so the Germans would have us believe ...
America's gut doctor says no ...
“Oatmeal is a complex carbohydrate with a low glycemic index, which means it is digested slowly, preventing spikes in blood sugar rendering it more stable. It’s high fiber content helps control appetite and reduce cholesterol levels as well.”
“bad cholesterol”
Anytime I ate oatmeal I was hungry an hour later. No thanks. Need protein and fat. And, shouldn’t really care about high cholesterol....unless not exercising and have diabetes.
“Oatmeal leads to diabetes like eating eggs leads to high cholesterol, both have really healthy vitamins and nutrients, but if you eat multiple dozens of eggs or eat boxes of oatmeal at every meal it will lead to problems.”
Like most carnivores, I eat about 5 eggs everyday for years now, never had any problem, on the contrary. And if any, I would like to know WHAT probem? So where do you get that eating multiple dozens of eggs at every meal (if possible) will lead to problems??? Ah, from nowhere, you just invent it.
I have never had a cholesterol or blood sugar problem; but I know that doctors are concerned about about the balance between LDL and HDL.
I’m simply saying that the doctor was very surprised by what he considered a very positive change in my friend’s numbers.
“but I know that doctors are concerned about about the balance between LDL and HDL.”
As a carnivore, I am fat adapted , use fat as fuel and am bordeline “lean mass hyperresponder” LMHR. So my LDL is around 300 (some LMHR are above 500!). Through the roof according to the mainstream cholesterol theory! For the work medicine doc, I should have been dead years ago.
When the cholesterol theory is disproven so spectacularly time and time again, how do you call it ?
If you substituted eggs for oatmeal, you would literally be describing yourself.
You describe yourself as a carnivore, which is absolutely fine, I don’t care what people eat, to claim oatmeal is a worthless food, is simply not true.
May I ask where you acquired your medical degree?
(And why are you so damn unpleasant? Almost every post of yours is insulting someone and insisting that you know better than anyone about everything! Maybe your diet is ruining your disposition.)
Am I the only one here that knows cholesterol is our primary food for our brains?
Just like blood pressure.........Im considered pre hypertensive because my bp is routinely 120/65.....I guess 0/0 would also be considered pre hypertensive. Take no meds for anything.
My cholesterol has held steady at 225 for almost 40 years.
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