Correcting High Cholesterol and LDL Cholesterol on Keto Diet – Dr.Berg

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so today’s topic is going to be on high cholesterol on keto so many people sometimes freak out because their cholesterol is too high i’ve done quite a few videos on this but i wanted to create a video on something very specific that you need to know about so here’s the big point a good amount of your cholesterol and by the way there’s two organs in your body that make cholesterol one is the liver but also the intestines so a good majority of your cholesterol is controlled by bile salts okay so bile salts are made by the liver and the intestine all right so we’ve got the liver and the intestine and excess cholesterol is eliminated through various pathways involving bile so you need bile to eliminate excess cholesterol and the regulation of excess cholesterol is dependent on bile now as far as the small intestine goes there’s these little receptors and they’re called bile acid receptors another name for a bile acid receptor would be an fxr receptor not that you need to know that now what these receptors do is they regulate cholesterol by suppressing cholesterol now the liver also influences cholesterol as well but not as much as a small intestine the small intestine really regulates hdl the so-called good cholesterol well it’s not good or bad it’s the cholesterol from the cell back to the liver so look at this right here we’ve got hdl goes from the cell back to the liver and then ldl goes from the liver to the cell so they’re just transportation proteins as in high density lipoprotein or low density lipo protein all right so far so good let’s go on to the next slide there’s another condition called cholesterol anemia okay now essential means they don’t know what causes it very similar to essential high blood pressure they don’t they don’t really know what causes it we know it’s usually vitamin d and low potassium but essential hyper cholesterol anemia includes familial hyper cholesterol anemia and this is that condition which is genetic okay which people are concerned about because they don’t really think they can do anything about it but you can do things about it and i will put a link down below so that’s just one part there’s other causes of this unknown high cholesterol a high fat diet okay but if you have high cholesterol it’d be a very good idea to get some advanced lipid testing to really find out more what’s going on you’re going to find out the type of high ldl that you have is actually a good ldl but i don’t want to get into that right now i want to kind of stay on track so we have genetics high fat diet because you’re doing keto but also hypothyroidism that can cause high cholesterol in the blood also kidney damage and a deficiency in bile okay now that can be from some obstruction from a kidney stone or and that’s what i really want to talk about right now so what causes a deficiency in bile because bile is very very important in breaking down fats to absorb fat cyber vitamins it helps lubricate the colon it helps prevent sibo in the small intestine but it also has a very important function in regulating cholesterol okay so what would cause a deficiency in bile main thing is liver damage okay as in a fatty liver an inflamed liver as in hepatitis or a liver that’s filled with fibrotic tissue or a liver that has scar tissue which is called cirrhosis okay so all three of those conditions will cause a deficiency in bile because anything that decreases the liver function decreases the amount of bile production but you also have the small intestine and that would be the next thing i will mention if you have intestinal damage okay so let’s say you had a series of antibiotics that just destroyed your intestine or let’s say you have celiac or crohn’s or diverticulitis any inflammation or damage in your small intestine will decrease the production of bile and that can spike the cholesterol now because your friendly bacteria the microbiome also help to recycle bile if there’s a problem in the microbiome you’re not going to make enough bile so the good bacteria could be another thing to look at or it could be that you had the gallbladder removed you have no gallbladder in which case you’re going to have less bile so all of these are factors that can contribute to high cholesterol i just wanted to bring up your awareness and another link to high cholesterol that you need to be aware of because a solution a very simple solution would be if you had liver damage is just to take some purified bile salts okay and that is going to help regulate cholesterol now it also could be that you need to take more good bacteria okay so that’s another solution right there or it could be that you have a slow thyroid so the point is that in order to fix something you have to know all the potential causes and then what’s the most likely cause all right thanks for watching and tell me what you think of this new format i’m just trying it out hey we’re back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no 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