hey this is dr. Barry let's discuss for just a few minutes how you can raise your HDL cholesterol that's the good cholesterol and lower your triglycerides both of these things things are very important for your health they've been linked they've been directly linked as risk factors for heart attack and stroke and so raising your HDL and lowering your triglycerides are very important for your long-term health there's so much misinformation out there about how to do this I thought you deserved a video about what actually works and that's what we're going to talk about if you
know someone who is worried about their cholesterol or their risk for heart attack and stroke or if you have family members who have a family history of heart attack and stroke and they're trying to not go down that same road then please share this video with them you can post it on your Facebook page you always have my permission to share my videos inside your Facebook groups there's a number we'll share this to help me help lots of people now let's talk about the two different theories of how you raise your HDL and lower your
triglycerides and then we'll talk about why you actually care about that why you should care anyway and so if you go to websites like the Mayo Clinic website and WebMD and you google how do I raise HDL how do I lower triglycerides both of these websites which purport to give real meaningful helpful medical advice will tell you that you need to eat lots of whole grains and you need to decrease your intake of saturated fat if you want to raise your HDL and lower your triglycerides and then another site that I'll tell you about at
the end of the video actually gets it right one of the larger medical sites on the internet and I'm very proud of them for getting this right so should you eat more carbs which it would be which would be whole-grain foods should you eat whole grain bread and whole grain muffins and eat whole grain pancakes will that raise your HDL and lower your triglycerides actually no and I've had multiple patients come to me and say hey I've been following the American Medical Association's guidelines for years and I just can't get my triglycerides down or I've
been following the American Heart Association diet and it keeps my triglycerides keep going up what's wrong it's because the recommendations are wrong if you want to raise your HDL you've got to eat more saturated fat and you've got to eat fewer carbohydrates that's how you do it when you eat a low carbohydrate diet that is filled with healthy saturated fats like the kind of fat you'll find in meats and healthy oils you'll you will naturally raise your HDL up to very protective levels and you will lower your triglycerides down to very safe levels if however
you try to follow the Mayo Clinic and the WebMD website advise the American Heart Association advised the American diabetic Association advice and eat the diet they recommend you will find that without exception your triglycerides go up and your HDL goes down true story you can try this for yourself there are a number of people on the internet including Dave Feldman and Siobhan Huggins who have performed these experiments on themselves and then thousands of your friends and family members who have been trying to eat a low fat high healthy carbohydrate diet and their triglycerides and their
HDL just keep getting worse now why should we even care about having a high HDL and low triglycerides I mean what matters is total cholesterol and LDL right No No so we've been misled for the last couple of decades by the American Medical Association and the American Heart Association to be afraid of a high total cholesterol and a high LDL level well here's the problem with those hypotheses which haven't they've never gleaned enough evidence to actually be promoted to theories they're still just hypotheses here's what you can prove for yourself as a fact metabolic syndrome
is the thing that we're all trying to prevent metabolic syndrome is what leads to heart attack stroke and probably all of the other chronic diseases that we currently suffer from in Western society so what what is metabolic syndrome there are five criteria that make up metabolic syndrome and to be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome you have to have at least three out of these five they are high triglycerides low HDL high blood sugar high blood pressure and central adiposity that's that fat around your belly fat on your booty and fat on your thighs we may not
like that but it's never been proven to be a risk factor for metabolic disease such as heart attacks stroke type-2 diabetes etc so if you have any of these three you have metabolic syndrome and you are at increased risk of heart attack stroke and the other chronic diseases so now you understand oh okay so let's it's very important for my health and my health span to have a low triglyceride level and it's also very healthy to have a high HDL but then when I go back and I look at all the large research studies some
of which were published and some of which were buried it looks like that total cholesterol doesn't have anything to do with my risk factors for heart attack and stroke same with LDL no matter how high it is it doesn't really seem to be a risk factor if it is it's a tiny risk factor the huge risk factors for metabolic syndrome and everything that comes along with it that you can take charge of and you can take charge of all five of these without taking a pill you can lower your triglycerides triglycerides and raise your HDL
by eating lots of good healthy saturated fat and minimizing the amount of carbohydrates you eat especially sugars and processed grain products including whole wheat or whole grain bread all of those raise your blood sugar which raises your insulin which raises your triglycerides and lowers your HDL and you don't want that okay so in order to get all of your metabolic syndrome risk factors in order you need to eat a low carbohydrate high healthy fat diet like the ketogenic diet that's the diet that's going to move all five in Katers of metabolic syndrome in the correct
or the proper or the healthy direction so I'm gonna put links down below to the Mayo Clinic website where they get this exactly wrong and I'm going to put a link to the web MD article where they get this exactly wrong and I'm also going to link to the Cleveland Clinic article that really pounds on the need to decrease sugars and decrease process grains and to eat healthy fats Cleveland Clinic actually gets it right I'm very proud of them for that now if you enjoyed this video and you'd like to see others like it please
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so that I can help even more people this is doctor Barry I'll see you next time
