Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:03.600] Warning, the following show contains explicit language. [00:03.600 --> 00:07.720] Certain people should not listen to this show, such as children and panty-waist adults who [00:07.720 --> 00:15.240] cry like 12-year-old little girls when they hear profanity. [00:15.240 --> 00:21.880] What if I told you that sky-high LDL cholesterol is only problematic if you're living in the [00:21.880 --> 00:29.480] toxic state of glucose, but it's not a problem at all if you live in ketosis? [00:29.480 --> 00:33.600] I'm going to prove that to you right now. [00:33.600 --> 00:35.080] Welcome to the Dr. Reality Podcast. [00:35.080 --> 00:41.240] I'm Dave Champion, author of Body Science, a groundbreaking book on physiology, nutrition, [00:41.240 --> 00:42.240] and disease. [00:42.240 --> 00:48.760] We all know the standard societal narrative concerning cholesterol LDL in particular, [00:48.760 --> 00:53.760] and that is that if it's anything above 99, you're in trouble, and if the higher it gets, [00:53.760 --> 00:59.760] the greater risk you're at concerning heart disease, myocardial infarction, and so forth. [00:59.760 --> 01:04.200] But is that true? [01:04.200 --> 01:07.480] Before I get rolling, I have to define two words very quickly for you so that the rest [01:07.480 --> 01:09.280] of the presentation makes sense. [01:09.280 --> 01:13.080] That is glucose and ketosis. [01:13.080 --> 01:17.520] Glucose is a word that I had to coin when I was writing Body Science because in all [01:17.640 --> 01:24.400] of scientific history, researchers have never put a name to the condition where the trillion [01:24.400 --> 01:27.360] cells of your body use glucose for energy. [01:27.360 --> 01:32.960] So when I wrote Body Science, I had to find a name for that, so I called it glucose. [01:32.960 --> 01:38.080] The other hemisphere, and there are only two hemispheres, the other hemisphere is ketosis, [01:38.080 --> 01:41.880] and that is where the trillion cells of your body no longer have any interesting glucose. [01:41.880 --> 01:46.760] They use primarily fatty acids into a lesser extent ketone bodies to fuel themselves. [01:47.320 --> 01:54.920] And ketosis is the way all human bodies are genetically coded to operate. [01:54.920 --> 01:58.100] So with that under our belts, back to cholesterol. [01:58.100 --> 02:04.800] The average American who's living his life in the toxic state of glucose, if that person [02:04.800 --> 02:12.840] has high LDL cholesterol, it is almost always combined with low HDL cholesterol. [02:12.840 --> 02:16.000] That's the so-called good cholesterol. [02:16.000 --> 02:21.760] And the person's triglycerides are normally quite high, and that is an equation that's [02:21.760 --> 02:22.760] problematic. [02:22.760 --> 02:24.520] Sorry to have to say this. [02:24.520 --> 02:27.960] If you fit that profile, it is of your own making. [02:27.960 --> 02:34.120] When I talk about of your own making, the good news is you can change that. [02:34.120 --> 02:41.560] As an example, when people shift out of glucose into ketosis, some amazing thing happens. [02:41.960 --> 02:46.800] Triglycerides drop significantly, down well into the healthy range. [02:46.800 --> 02:49.320] Good cholesterol, so-called good cholesterol, HDL. [02:49.320 --> 02:51.960] I keep saying so-called because they all have their role. [02:51.960 --> 02:53.560] There's really no such thing as good or bad. [02:53.560 --> 02:55.120] They all have a particular function. [02:55.120 --> 03:00.920] So the so-called good HDL cholesterol increases, and all of that is great. [03:00.920 --> 03:03.680] But what happens to the LDL cholesterol? [03:03.680 --> 03:06.760] Well, that depends on the person. [03:06.760 --> 03:11.360] Before we go further, let me share with you a premise I discuss in body science, and that [03:11.360 --> 03:16.600] is when you're living in ketosis, the way all human bodies are genetically coded to [03:16.600 --> 03:24.360] operate, when you are in ketosis, your body does not produce anything that harms you, [03:24.360 --> 03:28.400] and it doesn't produce anything in any quantities that harms you. [03:28.400 --> 03:31.240] So that's an important premise as we move forward. [03:31.240 --> 03:40.000] Applying that premise, if you're in ketosis and your LDL cholesterol is 99 or 105 or higher [03:40.400 --> 03:46.480] or lower, that's fine because when you're in ketosis, your body is producing the exact [03:46.480 --> 03:49.360] correct amount of virtually everything. [03:49.360 --> 03:52.920] But in this case, we're focusing on LDL cholesterol. [03:52.920 --> 03:53.920] But what happens? [03:53.920 --> 03:54.920] What does it mean? [03:54.920 --> 04:04.560] What is it signaling if LDL cholesterol is astronomically high, so high that a cardiologist [04:04.560 --> 04:06.120] would freak out? [04:06.120 --> 04:13.320] I'm going to answer that question for you by looking at my lipid panel from last week. [04:13.320 --> 04:16.440] Before I share the numbers with you, I need you to understand the framework, and that [04:16.440 --> 04:22.920] is I've been living in a state of ketosis for years now, and 17 months ago, I embarked [04:22.920 --> 04:26.320] on the carnivore style of eating. [04:26.320 --> 04:28.880] Last week, I had an extensive blood panel done. [04:28.880 --> 04:31.880] I'll be talking about the various elements of that in the weeks to come. [04:31.880 --> 04:37.280] Today, we're going to talk about my lipid panels, which of course includes cholesterol. [04:37.280 --> 04:40.560] Let's start with triglycerides. [04:40.560 --> 04:46.440] Typical medical framework is you don't want to be above 150 on your triglycerides. [04:46.440 --> 04:49.240] Anything below that is relatively healthy. [04:49.240 --> 04:58.320] People who are in the ketosis world are typically under 100, so I came in at 77, which is splendid. [04:58.760 --> 05:02.400] HDL, again, the so-called good cholesterol. [05:02.400 --> 05:07.420] Typical medical framework is you definitely want to have something above 40. [05:07.420 --> 05:09.520] Anything above 50 is considered great. [05:09.520 --> 05:11.640] 60 is the gold standard. [05:11.640 --> 05:16.640] There are some people that are above 60, but as you get too much above 60, that can signify [05:16.640 --> 05:18.760] some other issues. [05:18.760 --> 05:24.160] Somewhere in the range of 50 to 60 is where you want to be if you're in balance, which [05:24.160 --> 05:27.760] is a huge part of how our body's operated is to be in balance. [05:27.760 --> 05:32.360] I came in at 56, so that's all good. [05:32.360 --> 05:37.520] My total cholesterol is high enough to cause a cardiologist to freak out. [05:37.520 --> 05:40.240] It's 276. [05:40.240 --> 05:45.920] Having said that, total cholesterol needs to really go away as a relevant number because [05:45.920 --> 05:47.600] it's not relevant. [05:47.600 --> 05:53.440] About the only thing that total cholesterol does here in 2021 is it gives the ability [05:53.440 --> 05:58.280] of general practitioners to scare the hell out of patients. [05:58.280 --> 06:02.040] Now we come to what is the point of this presentation? [06:02.040 --> 06:13.420] My LDL cholesterol score, which is 207, so that's 108 above what traditionally medical [06:13.420 --> 06:17.000] community considers acceptable, which is a score of 99. [06:17.000 --> 06:23.040] Typically, especially if you live in glucose, you don't want to be over 99. [06:23.440 --> 06:24.640] I'm 207. [06:25.520 --> 06:26.480] Am I concerned? [06:27.680 --> 06:28.180] No. [06:29.760 --> 06:31.680] Not in the least. [06:31.680 --> 06:33.280] Why am I not concerned? [06:33.280 --> 06:38.320] Because I know things you likely don't, but I'm going to share them with you right now. [06:39.040 --> 06:43.360] The first thing I know, the first reason that I'm not concerned in the least about an LDL [06:43.360 --> 06:48.960] cholesterol score of 207 is, as I shared with you earlier, when you're living in ketosis, [06:48.960 --> 06:52.800] your body doesn't produce anything that harms you nor does it produce anything [06:52.800 --> 06:54.480] in any quantity that harms you. [06:54.480 --> 06:57.760] So that's the first reason I'm not concerned in the least. [06:58.320 --> 07:05.440] The second reason I'm not particularly concerned is because I understand about remnant cholesterol. [07:05.440 --> 07:10.720] Now, doctors who keep up on the more modern research, which is sadly not a lot of them, [07:11.280 --> 07:16.480] understand that remnant cholesterol is the gold standard. [07:16.480 --> 07:21.440] That's where you really want to be to understand if a person is at risk of heart disease and [07:21.440 --> 07:23.120] arterial disease and so forth. [07:23.120 --> 07:26.720] There is a platinum standard, cardiac calcium scoring. [07:26.720 --> 07:29.360] I'm going to be talking about that here in the next couple weeks, but today we're just [07:29.360 --> 07:31.840] going to focus on remnant cholesterol. [07:32.560 --> 07:36.080] What is remnant cholesterol? [07:36.080 --> 07:45.440] Well, it's all of the circulating cholesterol in your blood minus LDL cholesterol and HDL [07:45.440 --> 07:46.320] cholesterol. [07:46.320 --> 07:50.160] In other words, remnant cholesterol is VLDL and IDL. [07:50.160 --> 07:51.200] You don't need to know what those are. [07:52.000 --> 07:56.400] I will tell you that VLDL and IDL are only in your system for about 30 to 60 minutes [07:56.400 --> 07:59.120] from the time they're generated until the time your body consumes them again. [07:59.760 --> 08:03.360] So there should not ever be a lot of them in your blood. [08:03.360 --> 08:08.320] If there is a lot of them circulating in your blood, that signifies a problem. [08:08.320 --> 08:11.680] So how do you know what your remnant cholesterol is? [08:11.680 --> 08:12.560] That's simple. [08:12.560 --> 08:20.720] Take your HDL number, add that to your LDL number, take that sum, that total, and subtract [08:20.720 --> 08:23.680] it from your total cholesterol number. [08:23.680 --> 08:26.720] That will leave you with your remnant cholesterol number. [08:27.280 --> 08:32.080] So how significant is remnant cholesterol in terms of things like heart disease and [08:32.080 --> 08:34.560] cardiac arterial disease and so forth? [08:34.560 --> 08:38.640] I want to read to you just a couple little snippets from three different studies. [08:39.280 --> 08:46.960] The first one, levels of triglycerides and remnant cholesterol, but not LDL cholesterol, [08:46.960 --> 08:54.400] were associated with cardiovascular outcomes independent of other risk factors. [08:54.400 --> 08:57.600] And according to a study in the Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, [08:58.320 --> 09:04.160] people without high remnant cholesterol rarely have coronary artery disease, [09:04.720 --> 09:07.520] even if they have relatively high triglycerides. [09:08.160 --> 09:12.080] And lastly, two separate studies showed that remnant cholesterol is associated with [09:13.200 --> 09:17.760] chronic inflammation, whereas LDL cholesterol is not. [09:18.320 --> 09:24.320] In other words, remnant cholesterol is really the culprit, not LDL cholesterol. [09:24.320 --> 09:27.360] So what is the remnant cholesterol scoring? [09:27.360 --> 09:28.800] Because we have to have a score, right? [09:28.800 --> 09:33.200] We have to know where we stand on this spectrum of being very healthy, [09:33.200 --> 09:36.400] to being perhaps at significant risk of heart disease. [09:37.040 --> 09:40.240] A score of 20 is considered good. [09:40.800 --> 09:45.840] As you go up from there, between 20 and 27, obviously, you want to stay close to 20. [09:45.840 --> 09:51.760] So as you're going up towards 27, not particularly great that a person with 27 [09:51.760 --> 09:56.000] or above is considered to be at significant risk of heart disease. [09:56.000 --> 09:59.040] So with that in mind, what is my remnant cholesterol score? [09:59.040 --> 10:05.200] It is 13, which is obviously fantastic. [10:05.200 --> 10:07.600] And just here in a couple of months, I'm going to be 62. [10:07.600 --> 10:12.960] I'm going to be 62 years old, and I have a remnant cholesterol score of 13. [10:12.960 --> 10:17.360] I know one guy in the whole world, one guy who's a 12. [10:17.920 --> 10:22.960] As I mentioned previously, my LDL cholesterol is 207, which is by normal standards. [10:22.960 --> 10:25.600] Not somebody living in ketosis is astronomically high. [10:25.600 --> 10:30.000] And we have to acknowledge that for the average person living in glucose, [10:30.000 --> 10:36.800] we're firmly in the range of familial hypocholesterolemia, which is a genetic [10:36.800 --> 10:42.640] condition which usually results in the early onset of heart disease. [10:42.640 --> 10:48.720] So here we have 207 is high enough to firmly be entrenched in this dangerous disease. [10:50.080 --> 10:57.840] But my remnant cholesterol score is 13, which means that as far as the goal standard [10:57.840 --> 11:03.120] for predicting heart disease, I'm doing phenomenally well. [11:03.120 --> 11:04.400] How do we explain that? [11:04.400 --> 11:09.840] One of my peers, Dave Feldman, has dubbed a particular kind of person who's living [11:09.840 --> 11:13.920] in ketosis as a lean mass hyper responder. [11:14.720 --> 11:20.080] Dave coined that phrase, and it's great for identifying people of a certain category, [11:20.080 --> 11:23.680] normally people who tend to be relatively athletic. [11:23.680 --> 11:30.480] And for the lean mass hyper responders in ketosis, you'll see the profile that I exemplify. [11:31.200 --> 11:37.920] Very, very high LDL cholesterol, but incredibly low remnant cholesterol score. [11:37.920 --> 11:42.160] Now, not everybody who chooses to live in ketosis for years and years, as have I, [11:42.160 --> 11:43.760] is a lean mass hyper responder. [11:43.760 --> 11:45.440] That's just a category. [11:45.440 --> 11:47.840] Most people are not lean mass hyper responders. [11:47.840 --> 11:49.840] So where's their LDL cholesterol going to be? [11:49.840 --> 11:52.240] Well, their LDL cholesterol is going to be in the normal range. [11:52.240 --> 11:55.200] It's going to be in the 90s or the 100s or 120 or 130. [11:55.200 --> 11:57.360] But wherever it is, it's healthy for them. [11:57.360 --> 12:02.480] And their remnant cholesterol score is going to be 20 or below. [12:03.120 --> 12:07.440] A moment ago, I mentioned familial hypocalesterolemia, a genetic condition [12:07.440 --> 12:13.920] which causes extremely high cholesterol levels, and often results in early onset [12:13.920 --> 12:16.080] of heart disease in the 40s or the 50s. [12:16.720 --> 12:20.720] Physiologically speaking, what produces cholesterol in the body? [12:20.720 --> 12:23.200] Well, there's a whole bunch of things that's actually made in the cells. [12:23.200 --> 12:24.880] And of course, there's dietary cholesterol. [12:24.880 --> 12:31.520] But what pushes cholesterol above normal healthy limits for the average person [12:31.520 --> 12:37.040] is carbohydrate intake because the liver then converts that to cholesterol [12:37.040 --> 12:40.560] in order to get rid of the elevated glucose levels. [12:40.560 --> 12:46.560] If you've got familial hypocalesterolemia, you might try this and then send me a message. [12:46.560 --> 12:49.920] I say try this because the medical establishment is never going to research [12:49.920 --> 12:54.480] this kind of thing because ketosis has a funding blackout [12:54.480 --> 12:57.600] because it scares the crap out of big med and big pharma. [12:57.600 --> 13:01.200] Their profits could collapse if people understood the truth about ketosis. [13:01.200 --> 13:04.160] So there is a financial blackout on doing research. [13:04.160 --> 13:06.080] So that means we're left to do it on our own. [13:06.080 --> 13:08.400] So if you happen to have the genetic disorder [13:08.400 --> 13:11.280] that causes you to have familial hypocalesterolemia, [13:11.280 --> 13:15.840] you might consider going carnivore, which would take out the carb part [13:15.840 --> 13:21.120] of the equation for your body to create excess cholesterol [13:21.120 --> 13:26.000] and see then if you could stop taking the cholesterol medications. [13:26.880 --> 13:28.160] Nerea Day goes by. [13:28.160 --> 13:32.480] The people don't contact me and tell me they had this condition or that condition [13:32.480 --> 13:37.440] or this disease or that illness, and they put themselves into ketosis. [13:37.440 --> 13:41.440] And in short order, normally within 8 to 12 weeks, [13:42.400 --> 13:47.440] it either went away or almost completely went away. [13:48.080 --> 13:51.440] So the point I want to make is that ketosis is out there. [13:52.160 --> 13:53.760] The science is out there. [13:53.760 --> 13:55.440] The knowledge base is out there. [13:55.440 --> 13:59.920] But you're never going to hear about it from big med, from big pharma, from big food. [13:59.920 --> 14:01.440] So we've got to do it on our own. [14:01.440 --> 14:05.440] But the part I want you to know is that it is the way our bodies [14:05.440 --> 14:07.360] are genetically coded to operate. [14:07.360 --> 14:12.640] Virtually every single non-genetic illness that humans experience [14:13.280 --> 14:18.960] is at some level or another involved in living in the toxic state of glucose, [14:18.960 --> 14:23.280] which triggered or created the onset of those various diseases. [14:23.280 --> 14:29.520] And if people would understand that ketosis, not to mention the keto diet, [14:29.520 --> 14:32.960] not to mention the carnivore diet or some sort of modified pale, nothing. [14:32.960 --> 14:34.880] This is about the physiology of it. [14:35.040 --> 14:39.680] People would understand ketosis would keep them amazingly healthy. [14:40.320 --> 14:44.000] God, we would have an amazingly healthy nation. [14:44.000 --> 14:47.680] So I want to encourage you to go to DrReality.News. [14:47.680 --> 14:49.360] I tell people, never believe me. [14:49.360 --> 14:53.760] Please read the reviews of people who've actually read Body Science. [14:53.760 --> 14:55.200] You'll see for yourself. [14:55.200 --> 14:58.080] But what I really want you to do, because it's not an expensive book. [14:58.080 --> 15:01.600] What I really want you to do is I want you to get the information up here. [15:01.600 --> 15:04.320] Once you read Body Science, you can never unsee what you've seen. [15:04.320 --> 15:06.560] You can never unknow what you know. [15:06.560 --> 15:10.960] At that point, the vast majority of people, I suspect, [15:10.960 --> 15:13.760] will do the right thing and get incredibly healthy. [15:13.760 --> 15:22.560] Thanks for spending your time with me today.