Ahhhhh. Now I get you a little better. There is some back story.
We are all biased by experience. I’m not far off from you for the record. Lots of heart disease in my family. All the men in my immediate family (2 brothers and dad) have total cholesterols over 350 when eating “normally” (mine was 361 at 23, the first time I had it checked). My dad had a triple bypass and carotid artery surgery in his 40s. Since then he lives on lean meat, vegetable oil, statins, and sugar because “doctors said so”. So you can see why I despise your appeals to authority in this thread.
We all keep looking for the magic thing and it just doesn’t exist (I very much am including myself). Diet and health are a journey not a destination. You just have to do your best and keep trying. Best of luck with the ticker.
I had an amazing run for a really long time. Literally almost indestructible. Nothing could happen that a steak hoagie and a good night sleep couldn’t fix.
Now, not so much. The doc doesn’t actually even make any hard recommendations. He just phrases recommendations about diet, exercise, and meds as “This will give you a good chance…” and in the end the results are the product of our choices.
That cholesterol cycle, how and why our bodies create and use it is pretty darn interesting. Hard nut to crack to be sure!
Yeah. It wasn’t until all my shit went kaboom that me and my brothers started talking about it.
Turns out my one brother’s is high 200’s, with ldl/hdl ratio completely upside down (bad), mine is low but fucked even with statins, and last summer I ended up with moderate rhabdomyo whatever as a side effect from one, a crunchy spine from another, and finally settled in with one that doesn’t kill me, but doesn’t appear to help much either.
Not to shit on your day, but you might want to look into the recent stuff on dementia and statins. Some types of statins, at least in at risk populations, seem to double dementia risk. You gotta pick your poison at that point.
I prefer to think I’m a higher evolved being capable of better resistance to brain issues, cancer, and infectious disease personally.
Mine is a really short leap from my current state to demented, so not many people would notice. but If that ticker stops and I start to smell funny thats going to be a problem. At least with the furniture.
Joking aside, My cognitive function has declined noticeably, but I’ve never actually performed at the leading edge of my theoretical “potential” anyways. Too many adjacent problems.
I don’t know. Like I said pick your poison. I might rather die than forget who my children are. I think the lingering decades of slow declining death scares me more than anything. If I have my way I’ll live as long as I’m vibrant and useful, then drop dead. Hopefully that drop dead date is later than sooner, but it is what it is.
I can relate. I’ve kicked around the idea of “what if I had not woken up?” because I was sleeping when it had begun.
A friend of mine did something similar a few months prior, where he got up, thought it was heartburn and went back to sleep. Never woke up.
Don’t know the details of his, but mine was a complete blockage of the circumflex and 98-99% of the right coronary branches, so there were a bunch of physical bells and whistles going off that told me I was mortally injured and to call an ambulance. Fortunately I live about 10 min. from a state of the art cardiac cath lab and everything went perfectly.
On the original subject though, the one mineral that would be difficult but certainly not impossible to get an RDA from animal sources would be potassium.
Pretty easy to get with certain types of squash, potatoes, spinach and certain types of mushrooms. There are a few pretty good plant based sources for that.
Beef actually has a decent amount. Salmon would probably be the most standard meat with a larger dose. Oysters and such I think tend to have a lot if you like them.
Running some quick numbers I’m getting about 4.5 grams of potassium (3.5 pounds of beef), just from my beef intake every day. Which is right in the RDA range.
Actually, that is about on target. Holy moley on the meat intake though!
Interestingly enough, that is the mineral most lacking in typical diets, and many peoples intakes of sodium/potassium are essentially bass akward, which in many can lead to some serious problems.
That includes a good bit of organs, and you have to remember that’s basically all my calories. Plus I’m training my ass off right now. And yes, electrolytes are the first things I played around with when my current blood pressure issues started.
There are cheaper diets for sure. I make good money, but expensive stakes are a minority in my diet for this reason. If you do a lot of roasts and briskets it’s really not to bad though.
Same, I stick to eye of round or bottom round as they are pretty cheap even when buying grass fed/finished I get it for $6-$7 a pound.
Any idea what your macro breakdown is? I assumed the carnivore diet was predominantly protein but, after reading some forums I saw that at the most it was a 60/40 split in favor of fat with most around 70%.
but If that ticker stops and I start to smell funny thats going to be a problem. At least with the furniture.
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