Todd Moody wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Troy Gilchrist wrote:
>
> > If you eat nothing but lightly cooked meat (fatty) and greens for
> > several weeks your cholesterol level will drop like a rock. It's a
> > biochemical inevitability.
>
> I don't see the inevitability.  While the ketosis is likely to
> slow down the liver's production of cholesterol, the low level of
> fiber is also likely to slow down its exit from the body.  Am I
> missing something here?
>
> Todd Moody
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Read PROTEIN POWER, Chapter 7, titled "Cholesterol Madness." The doctors
explain the metabolism of cholesterol very clearly.

Basically if you eat very low levels of carbohydrate, your serum insulin
level drops. In response every cell in your body switches on a mechanism
that causes cells to draw cholesterol from the blood for the needs of
internal cellular function (building cell walls, etc.). When there is a
lot of insulin in the bloodstream, the cells switch over to producing
cholesterol internally, thus ceasing to withdraw cholesterol from the
blood, thus allowing serum cholesterol levels to remain high.

Troy Gilchrist