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[Stephanie Holbrook @sholbk]

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[Dave Feldman @realDaveFeldman]

The Cholesterol Code is exploding!!!

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Have you seen it yet?

#CholesterolCodeMovie @wideeyetv @Metabolic_Mind

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A comprehensive troubleshooting guide for new carnivores, compiled over five years of answering the same questions:

Tired in the afternoon? Add more butter.

Hungry between meals? Add more butter.

Headache in the first week? Add more butter. Also salt. But mostly butter.

Constipated? Add more butter.

Loose stools? Add more butter.

Craving carbs? Add more butter.

Cold hands and feet? Add more butter.

Dry skin? Add more butter. On the steak, not the skin.

Poor sleep? Add more butter.

Bad mood? Add more butter.

Gym performance dropping? Add more butter.

Gym performance fine but you just want it to be better? Add more butter.

Wife complaining about the butter? More butter. Different problem, same answer.

Doctor concerned about your LDL? The doctor is not the patient. Add more butter.

Keto flu? Butter.

Plateau on the scales? Butter.

Hair feeling dry? You're not eating enough fat. Add butter.

Feeling bored of the food? The food is not the problem. The amount of butter on the food is the problem.

Friend telling you this can't be healthy? Offer them some butter. Watch their face.

Thinking about quitting because it's not working? You are almost certainly eating lean meat with insufficient butter. Add butter. Report back in a week.

Already added butter and still have the problem? Add more butter.

There is no problem in the first thirty days of carnivore that cannot be solved, improved, or entirely dissolved by the addition of more butter.

I am aware this sounds like a joke. It is not. It is the single most common mistake new carnivores make, and the single most effective intervention anyone has ever suggested on this account.

The fat is the mechanism. The butter is the fat in its most accessible, most concentrated, most delicious form.

Add more butter.

That's the tweet. That's the whole guide. Five years of experience compressed into two words.

Save it.

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Be like Bill!!

[gary taubes @garytaubes]

Why Isn’t The Carnivore Diet Studied More Seriously

A fair question: if a growing subgroup reports doing well on an all-meat approach, why isn’t it studied with the same curiosity as other diets? Good science should investigate anomalies, not dismiss them as “fad” by default.

#Nutrition #CarnivoreDiet #DietResearch #EvidenceBased #MetabolicHealth #ScientificMethod #HealthScience #FoodScience #Wellness #CriticalThinking

[Nina Teicholz, PhD @bigfatsurprise]

Peter Attia once promoted low-carb, yes. In fact, 15y ago, he faced his own stubborn weight problem despite swimming 3-4 hours/day—a huge amount of exercise.

Then he gave up sugars, starches, and finally went full keto. A high-fat diet, He lowered his protein. His calories increased by more than 1000/day (!). Says he lost 40 lbs fat, went from a body fat of 20% to “close to what it was in high school,” which he says was 4%. He recounts this in a talk he gave in 2011: https://t.co/GFuKxVJ1d2

Yet years later, in his book, he says, “Calories Matter” and doesn't single out carbs as a particular problem. It’s a reversal that allowed him to stay inside the orthodoxy. But it does not reflect his experience, or at least part of his experience.

Gary Taubes wrote this up, coincidentally, in late Dec https://t.co/zy7AzFj70Y

[gary taubes @garytaubes]

When Low Carb Beat Low Fat In Clinical Trials

Early head to head trials compared a carb restricted, higher fat “eat more” approach vs a low fat, calorie restricted plan.

The surprising result: the low carb group often lost more weight and improved several heart risk markers.

#Nutrition #LowCarb #LowFat #WeightLoss #HeartHealth #ClinicalTrials #MetabolicHealth #HealthEducation #EvidenceBased #Wellness

[Stephanie Holbrook @sholbk]

@MissB53 This is also what I eat quite often. Very tasty.

[Stephanie Holbrook @sholbk]

@TheCycloneDrew @DoctorTro Ditto.

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

Here's a 38 second tip to avoid being mislead about 'high-fat' diets...

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

Many Americans have outsourced their well-being to a “disease management system” that keeps them on prescriptions for life, says Dr. Shawn Baker.

As a former orthopedic surgeon, he spent years operating on joints—now he’s trying to keep people out of the operating room altogether.

Food, he says, can make us sick—but it can also heal us: “We've been consuming this ultra-processed food, which I call human pet food…A lot of our food has become very similar to recreational drugs in the way we use and abuse them.”

In our in-depth interview, he tells me how and why the adoption of low-carb, high-fat diets like the ketogenic and carnivore diets reduce inflammation and can even heal chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiometabolic disease.

@SBakerMD

[Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd]

It doesn't have to be this way.

h/t the_carnivore_lifestyle

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

🚨It’s back… The Oreo vs Statin Experiment…

1/4) To catch you up, while a student at Harvard Medical School I conducted an experiment where I my LDL cholesterol TWICE as much with Oreo cookies as compared to high-dose statins, a viral experiment that was published in peer-review.

The “Oreo protocol” dropped my LDL > 70%, completely crushing the statin.

It was dramatic by design — a metabolic stunt (albeit legitimate science) meant to grab headlines. And it did!

Now, for the first time I am revisiting that experiment. Not just what it proved… What we’ve learned… And what’s next.

This wasn’t just a cholesterol hack — it was a social experiment. And you’re the data points.

Drop your questions, comments, and what you want to see next.

ht/ @realDaveFeldman @AdrianSotoMota

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

2/7) Today’s letter is an overdue ~3000-word essay on:
🩸My lipid levels
🩸Background on people like me
🩸Disclosure on my personal choices
🩸What I'm doing next
https://t.co/rqQfFT3UMi

Warning: It’s intense. And it’s only the beginning.

Caution: Please do not take this as medical advice or even the suggestion of such. Instead, my purpose is providing discloses it to reveal how I think, not what to think.

Note: The back half of the letter is currently only available for premium subscribers. For now, I’m reserving the most complex and intense details for a smaller, highly committed audience. Call it an intellectual stress test.

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

This is—without a doubt—the longest I’ve ever sat on a video before releasing it. Because once I open this Pandora’s box, there’s no closing it.
🚨Full Video: https://t.co/cp4PO6De1r

In this video, I share my personal decision to walk around with an LDL of 574 mg/dl and a total cholesterol over 700.

But this isn’t about one biomarker, or one study.

Decisions about whether to act, when to act, and how to act aren’t simple math problems. Individual complexity and thoughtful consideration can turn what looks like a straightforward equation into something far more nuanced.

🚨This video isn’t about telling you what to think—it’s about showing you how I think.

It’s not about dogma or conspiracy. It’s about authenticity, transparency, and the kind of nuanced conversations we need to have if we’re going to approach this topic responsibly. And I say that without irony.

If you watch all the way through—rather than jumping to conclusions—you might be surprised by where I land… and what I’m planning next.

We don't need to agree. We do need to be willing to keep our eyes, ears, and hearts open to new data and divergent opinions.

cc @realDaveFeldman @AdrianSotoMota @bschermd @DrAseemMalhotra @janellison @Metabolic_Mind @metcoalition @ApoDudz @DrEricRodgers @AKoutnik @PeterAttiaMD (I'm sure we'll have a productive and cordial chat one day)

[Amy Berger @TuitNutrition]

Psst... I have a new Substack post coming out tomorrow.
Not subscribed yet? What in the world?!

Check out previous posts here, and keep an eye out for the new one tomorrow:
👉https://t.co/qlMOr5qcm7

[Stephanie Holbrook @sholbk]

@Wardbird55 @BenFRubinstein Good one

[Dr. Eric Westman, MD, MHS @drericwestman]

It’s long overdue for the Dietary Guidelines to include a low-carbohydrate option for the vast majority of Americans with diet-related diseases.

@HHSgov @USDA_FNS @HHS_ASH @SecRollins @SecKennedy @calleymeans

[Stephanie Holbrook @sholbk]

@CaryKelly11 that is a great idea!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Being fat adapted vs sugar burners