Dr. Abs pulled bloodwork from 50 of his carnivore patients — cholesterol up, triglycerides down, A1C and CRP better across the board. It's a genuinely good data set. It's also the best-case scenario, not the average one.

I'm reacting to walk through what those numbers actually mean, why cherry-picked wins don't tell you what happens to everyone on this diet, and what two Virta Health trials add to the picture: LDL-C did rise over two years, but it was driven by a shift toward larger, less atherogenic particles, and carotid imaging showed no progression of arterial disease.

Original video: https://youtu.be/CygSkDzDOHE

Studies referenced:
Bhanpuri et al., 2018, Cardiovascular Diabetology — PMID 29712560 — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29712560/
Athinarayanan et al., 2020, Cardiovascular Diabetology — PMID 33292205 — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33292205/

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