Why Do You Get High Cholesterol After Intermittent Fasting? – Dr.Berg

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so I wanted to create a quick video just to answer another question someone was doing in a minute fasting and their cholesterol was actually going up and they were concerned and I understand you know you don’t wanna get a clogged artery and then end up getting a heart attack I totally got it but just hear me out for a second because if you’re doing in a minute fasting and keto together you are not gonna get a heart attack okay even if your cholesterol does go up temporarily when you do fasting you’re gonna mobilize your fat okay what’s in the fat it’s filled mostly with triglycerides okay there’s also some cholesterol neuro as well triglycerides are going to be used as energy okay primarily cholesterol is not going to be used for energy we don’t use cholesterol for energy it’s used to make hormones sex hormones like testosterone estrogen also cortisol which is your anti inflammatory hormones and there’s many other ones it’s also needed for cell membranes okay all of the cell membranes in your body need cholesterol so your body makes a lot of cholesterol it makes like 3,000 milligrams per day so when you eat more cholesterol your body will make less when you eat less your body makes more there’s a feedback mechanism going on but this next point is very very important repair cholesterol acts to repair damage in the body and because cholesterol doesn’t just float through the arteries it has to be put in a mechanism or a little shuttle-bus of protein so it can be transported through the body easily because cholesterol and blood don’t mix that well okay so it’s put into little shuttles they’re called LDL HDL etc and 99% of the time when you do fasting you’re gonna see a huge drop in triglycerides you’re going to also see a drop in LDL you may initially see a spike in cholesterol simply because it’s being mobilized but you normally will see a drop in LDL okay and a spike in HDL and these two shuttle buses kind of work in tandem so the LDL takes the cholesterol from the liver out through the body to do its work and the HDL will take the excess and bring it back to the liver from recycling so if your cholesterol is a little high realize you’re just in the transition phase it’s gonna come down and despite it being high it’s still not a problem a really good test for you to do would be this right here take your cholesterol and then you - your HDL and your LDL okay and you’re gonna get something called remnant cholesterol because what’s happening you have this dynamic situation where your body is feeding the hormones building the cell membranes doing some repair but also cleaning up any extra as well but the other thing you really need to know is that what’s really behind the high cholesterol and the high triglycerides is the carbohydrates it’s the desserts it’s the sweets etc when you do fasting or you bring your carbs down the body stops storing okay and it starts using the stored energy as fuel so I don’t want to beat a dead horse but it’s an important message and I know I’ve said this same thing in a thousand different ways but for some people it does take the repetition before it finally sinks in and they actually do apply the information if you’re liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos