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#477: Effect of Different Diets on Cholesterol, Lipoproteins and Discordance – Ian Davies, PhD

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The Effects of Low Carbohydrate Diet on LDL Cholesterol

With the low carb, we did get the sustained benefit in h-tial cholesterol. And the LDL cholesterol only went up by something 0.07 millimoles per liter - which is quite small. But that's possibly due to, are they really compliant to low carbohydrate? Certainly a very low carbohydrate at the sort of 50 grams per day. It's unlikely that the compliance has continued. That can, it leads to a lot of questions as well,. We see lower eftrigless rides, increases in HDL, and then this variable response with LDL cholesterol. For some people, nothing happens at all. For some, even lower, for some people, and then others, it shoots

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