Testosterone: made from cholesterol.
Oestrogen: made from cholesterol.
Cortisol: made from cholesterol.
Vitamin D: made from cholesterol.
Bile acids, which digest fat: made from cholesterol.
Every cell membrane in your body: contains cholesterol.
Your brain: 60% fat, mostly cholesterol.
When you eat less of it, the liver makes more.
Because the body knows it can't function without it.
This has been established science since the 1960s.
We declared war on cholesterol in 1977.
Testosterone levels in men have dropped 25% since 1980.
Vitamin D deficiency is now endemic.
One in three adults over fifty is on a statin to reduce the cholesterol the body is desperately trying to maintain.
The war is going well.
Oestrogen: made from cholesterol.
Cortisol: made from cholesterol.
Vitamin D: made from cholesterol.
Bile acids, which digest fat: made from cholesterol.
Every cell membrane in your body: contains cholesterol.
Your brain: 60% fat, mostly cholesterol.
When you eat less of it, the liver makes more.
Because the body knows it can't function without it.
This has been established science since the 1960s.
We declared war on cholesterol in 1977.
Testosterone levels in men have dropped 25% since 1980.
Vitamin D deficiency is now endemic.
One in three adults over fifty is on a statin to reduce the cholesterol the body is desperately trying to maintain.
The war is going well.
Every nutrient you'll supposedly lack on carnivore.
Vitamin C. You'll get scurvy. Fresh beef contains some. The rest of the requirement is your body mopping up oxidative damage from seed oils and glucose metabolism. Remove those. The mop sits idle.
Magnesium. You'll run out. The biggest drain on magnesium is glucose combustion. Stop combusting glucose. The drain closes.
Manganese. You'll be deficient. Manganese powers the enzymes neutralising free radicals from carbohydrate metabolism. Remove the carbohydrates. The enzymes have very little to do. They are fine with this.
Fibre. You'll be constipated. The 30 gram recommendation was calculated for a gut processing 300 grams of carbohydrate a day. You are not processing 300 grams of carbohydrate a day.
Calcium. Your bones will thin. Insulin spikes drive urinary calcium loss. You no longer have insulin spikes. The calcium is staying where you left it.
Potassium. You'll crash. Beef contains more potassium than is commonly discussed. So does salmon. So does chicken breast. The banana had better PR.
These were the requirements for someone else's diet.
You have a different diet.
The requirements have not been updated.
They should be.
Vitamin C. You'll get scurvy. Fresh beef contains some. The rest of the requirement is your body mopping up oxidative damage from seed oils and glucose metabolism. Remove those. The mop sits idle.
Magnesium. You'll run out. The biggest drain on magnesium is glucose combustion. Stop combusting glucose. The drain closes.
Manganese. You'll be deficient. Manganese powers the enzymes neutralising free radicals from carbohydrate metabolism. Remove the carbohydrates. The enzymes have very little to do. They are fine with this.
Fibre. You'll be constipated. The 30 gram recommendation was calculated for a gut processing 300 grams of carbohydrate a day. You are not processing 300 grams of carbohydrate a day.
Calcium. Your bones will thin. Insulin spikes drive urinary calcium loss. You no longer have insulin spikes. The calcium is staying where you left it.
Potassium. You'll crash. Beef contains more potassium than is commonly discussed. So does salmon. So does chicken breast. The banana had better PR.
These were the requirements for someone else's diet.
You have a different diet.
The requirements have not been updated.
They should be.