Re: Young Americans suffering more strokes
Though they can be caused by several reasons typicaly its from a blockage in an artery , this can be caused by several things ranging from cholesterol to corenary artery problems.
As americans in general or eating sucks , we don't get enough good fats that keep our good cholestrol up (omega3) and to many bad fats that bring the bad cholestrol up. The HDL which is the good cholestrol is kinda like the lube for your veins and arterys it helps to prevent blockages keeping everything flowing smoothly.
And conterary to common thought eating foods that are high in cholestrol will not raise you blood level cholestrol. The cholestrol found in your blood is made by the liver and very little actualy recieved from food intake , when a diet that very low in good cholestrol (typical american) the liver produces more , this raises the blood levels. Now if a diet higher in good fats and cholestrols is followed you will actualy lower your blood level cholestrol as the body sees an abundunace of it and does not need to produce more.
I had a long debate with a cardiologist my wife works with sometimes in a cath lab and kept give these test that were run and what they showed , well the test were run on RATS who are not carnivors and realy not even omnivors (they eat very very little meat) when these animals were give retarded amounts of cholestrol via their diet it mad them very sice and raised their blood levels very very high , again this is an animal that was not evolved to eat meat , i asked him if he though the same results would happen on a chimpanzee that does eat a fair amount of meat or a bear? (no answer just dumb look) so after hearing what my diet was and swearing i'd drop dead any second he offered to run a full blood pannel every 3 weeks to track my levels everything from test and T3 levels to cholestrol.
As a base line i ran a diet very close to that what is printed on every food label as the RDA as far as fats and carbs goes and mind you this was good food not junk , all fats were anaimal and nut fats most carbs were from sweet potatos and oats , after 7 weeks of feeling like shit we got a base line then i went back to my diet , 500g protein , 150g carbs , 225-250g fats. , more than half my carbs come from fruit and almost all my fats come from meat and eggs only 20-25g comming from peanut butter. Now all my fatty meat is grass fed beef , wild cought salmon or free range eggs , this makes a differance!!! after eating this fro 3 weeks results showed reduced LDL and a slightly raised HDL , this continued through the test of 15 weeks till the end where my HDL ended up at 38 , LDL at 97 and triglycerides at 99. I also had increased testosterone production , T3 production and reduced liver enzymes.
Also not that I give blood every 6 weeks and have for 15 years now and about every other donation i give double rep cells. This also helps in keeping the cardio vascular system healthy and happy as wel as taking an 81mg asperin twice a day
