243: Dave Feldman’s “The Cholesterol Code" Kicks the Lipid Hornet's Nest
About this episode
Dave Feldman discusses his experiences with the ketogenic diet and the implications of high LDL cholesterol levels.
Dave Feldman, a software engineer turned citizen scientist, went on a ketogenic diet and watched his LDL cholesterol spike dramatically while his family members on the same diet saw no such change. Unable to get cardiologists or lipidologists to study the phenomenon, he built a public charity from scratch, crowdfunded the research, and designed the Keto CTA study — enrolling 100 metabolically healthy people with very high LDL and scanning their coronary arteries with CT angiograms at baseline...
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia
Guest: Dave Feldman
Topics covered
- cholesterol
- ketogenic diet
- cardiology
- citizen science
- LDL cholesterol
- health research
Keywords
- cholesterol
- ketogenic diet
- LDL
- cardiologists
- lipidologists
- Keto CTA study
- coronary arteries
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Keto CTA
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