Helping people whose Metabolic Health has been affected by poor lifestyle information, and health issues. Proud to support and be a PHCUK ambassador
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I want you to look at one chart.
Sniderman. One of the most respected lipidologists alive. New data in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
When HDL is high, the effect of rising ApoB on cardiovascular risk disappears. Flat line. No signal.
When HDL is low, ApoB drives risk sharply higher.
The particle does not cause the damage. The metabolic environment determines whether the particle matters at all.
Fix the environment. The rest follows.
Is high LDL cholesterol (or apoB) harmful ONLY with poor metabolic health, characterized by low HDLc?
New study from preeminent lipidologist Sniderman:
"when HDL-C is high ... effect of changing apoB vanishes"
PS: A low-carb diet potently increases HDLc
academic.oup.com/eurjpc/adva…
Rachel retweeted
Keep sharing and keep informing people that their government wants to make them sick and viotate their human right to bodily autonomy, by adding a drug to their food.
Rachel retweeted
It’s October 26, 2026– and still hardly anyone with a medical degree is raising the issue of how ludicrous it is that a 26-year old and 86-year old are expected to have the same “ideal blood pressure” of 120/80
Rachel retweeted
Just Dropped a 24m Masterclass on Nitric Oxide (NO)
🫀How it supports your heart health
7⃣ Free ways to boost it naturally (in your kitchen🍳, in your bathroom🚽, and even in your car🚗)
Full video: youtu.be/NlarD_GAgNY
Here's a 70 sec clip explaining how exercise can improve blood flow.
Rachel retweeted
It was a pleasure and an honour to again welcome Dr. David Unwin & Dr. Jen Unwin to Australia for 'Low Carb Sydney 2026'. David's presentation 'Type 2 Diabetes: Real-world Success, N=1 and Hope!' will be our first YouTube release from the meeting this week @lowcarbGP @drjenunwin
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The documentary film, Healing Humanity, is out now! As one of its executive producers, I'm honored to have played a small role in bringing this project to the world. This big-hearted independent film was made on a shoe-string and was a true labor of love for Kerry Mann and everyone else involved.
Five years ago, when our family first learned about ketogenic therapy for mental health, there was almost nothing out there to point people toward. No press coverage. No films. No clinical trials in the scientific literature. Just a handful of individuals and clinicians who were seeing how a specific change in nutrition and metabolism could lead to healing the body and mind.
That’s a big part of why I said yes to this film.
Healing Humanity began with Kerry Mann Jr., a homesteader suffering from deep depression, who was 100 pounds overweight and was told his congestive heart failure and arthritis were permanent. When Kerry adopted a what he refers to as a proper human diet, he reclaimed his mental and physical health.
Then he and his co-director Adam Lacy, who has his own long recovery story from traumatic brain injury, spent three years driving around the country with a camera asking one question: who else has a similar story?
The answer turned out to be a lot of people. The film weaves together roughly 60 interviews with physicians, researchers, and ordinary people who got their lives back by returning to a proper human diet. Type 2 diabetes. Depression and anxiety. Autoimmune disease. Chronic pain. Women’s health. Aging. Among the clinicians who sat down with Kerry are @GeorgiaEdeMD, @KenDBerryMD, @SBakerMD, @ifixhearts and @thomasseyfried, and they don’t hold back.
What I love most about this film is that it isn’t a lecture. It’s people telling you, in their own words, what it felt like to be told “there’s nothing more we can do,” and what it felt like to find out that wasn’t true--exactly the journey our son @matthewbaszucki travelled.
This is the same conversation we’ve been having for years: that what we eat shapes our metabolism, that our metabolism shapes our brains, and that millions of people living with chronic physical and mental illness have never once been told that food might be part of the answer. The science is still catching up to the stories. But the stories are real, and they deserve to be heard.
Kerry and Adam made this film independently, funded by thousands of small donors, and they’ve set it up so every dollar from purchases goes first toward giving the film away free to people who can’t afford it. That tells you everything about who they are.
Watch it tonight. Then watch it again with a parent, a sibling, or a friend who has been told their diagnosis is forever. Gift it to someone who needs to know that healing is possible.
@HHDocumentary
Rent or buy here: healinghumanity.movie
#HealingHumanity #FoodIsMedicine #ProperHumanDiet
Rachel retweeted
I’m thrilled to announce that a big project I’ve been working on has just gone live! 🧠 My popular Ketogenic Diets for Mental Health clinician training program is now available for FREE on MyCME to everyone.
This comprehensive, newly updated CME course consists of 5 modules: Science, Assessment & Engagement, Implementation, Medication Management, and Troubleshooting
If you’re curious about how metabolic approaches could improve the mental health and total health of your patients, this program is for you.
Start here: mycme.com/pages/ketogenic-di… and please share this link with colleagues who may also be interested.
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Lierre Keith was sixteen when she met another girl whose whole family was vegan.
The girl had the pictures of the sheds and the numbers about land and hunger, and within a fortnight Keith had decided this was the diet that would fix the animals, the planet and the starving. She skipped vegetarian and went straight to vegan. This was the early 1980s. There were no meat analogues on the shelf. You had to mean it.
She meant it for nearly twenty years.
Two years in, the pain started in her lower back. A doctor told her her discs were already degenerating. Spines do not usually begin that work at eighteen. Her periods stopped. The blood-sugar crashes got worse. Later came the depression, the insomnia, the dry skin that hurt to touch, the autoimmune disease. She kept going. The values were still the values. Everything the pictures had shown about the sheds was still true.
A traditional Chinese doctor finally told her the body was not going to repair itself on what she was feeding it. She started with eggs. The skin improved. She added fish. The difference was large enough that she could no longer argue with it.
She wrote the book in 2009. She still lives with the spinal damage. She has said the permanent part is the part she wants other idealistic teenagers to hear about before they reach the same place she did.
The sheds are still there. So is the spine.
Just came across this on substack from a local GP, Dr Richard Pile. Worth a read drrichardpile.substack.com/?…
Rachel retweeted
I sat down with clinical lipid specialist and researcher Dr. Josh Wageman to discuss his book 'The Home Security System and the Lipid Neighborhood: Un-Complicating Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Disease' 🙂
@JoshJwageman
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Highly recommend reading Dr Ian Lake's (@idlake) new book 'Shifting Gears'. I bought my copy on Amazon and was not disappointed:
amzn.eu/d/0dwwiN3H
My review:
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My good friend and metabolic health GP @CampbellMurdoch has created this metabolic health website, including the 28 Day Plan.
It's designed for and used in the NHS, and is totally free and open to everyone.
healthshelf.org
Let's keep making the UK healthy again 💪
Together we can make the difference.
Rachel retweeted
They told my 19-year-old son to go home and die. I told them no.
He was diagnosed last year with Stage 4 Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. If you don't know what that is, be grateful. It's a monster.
He is 19. He has his whole life ahead of him. But right now, he’s been in a hospital bed for 17 straight days. The doctors are standing in the hallway trying to hand me hospice paperwork. They say there is nothing more they can do. They say he doesn't qualify for clinical trials because his platelet counts are too low.
So the system’s answer is to give up.
I will never give up.
He has been on the Joe Tippens protocol for over a year. I have him on every supplement, every tea, every diet change I can find. I have spent every waking hour reading, researching, and fighting. I am not a doctor, but I am his mother. And a mother’s research never stops.
He is far too young, and he has so much to give this world.
I am writing this because I need help.
If you have been through this if you have fought aggressive cancers, if you have dealt with low platelets blocking treatment, if you know of doctors who think outside the box please tell me.
What did you do when they told you there was nothing left? What else should I be looking at?
We are sitting in this hospital room, and I am refusing to sign the papers. I am asking for a miracle, but I am also asking for information. I will not let him go without a fight.
Please keep my sweet boy in your prayers. And if you have any advice, please share it below.
⚠️ I am sharing our story to ask for help, not medical advice. We are working with his medical team, but I am looking for any additional avenues. Please keep us in your thoughts.
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There’s a gross double standard when it comes to how academia discusses and covers LDL & ApoB. (Nerd rant 👇)
In a massive new @Nature study of over 100,000 people, detectable brown fat was associated with:
🩸58% lower odds of diabetes
🫀47% lower odds of heart disease
✅Better metabolic health markers
🔥🔥🔥HIGHER LDL cholesterol
The authors describe the LDL finding as a "paradox"
But what if it's not a paradox at all? What if it's just human physiology?
Here's the deal...
Brown fat is extraordinarily metabolically active, consuming lipids to fuel heat production.
Under the Lipid Energy Model (PMID: 35629964) , increased trafficking and turnover of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins could help explain a familiar lipid triad:
👉Higher HDL
👉Lower triglycerides
👉Higher LDL.
In that context, elevated LDL might represent highly active fat metabolism, rather than reflecting metabolic dysfunction.
Moral of the story: Not all high-LDL are created equal.
More nuances here: staycuriousmetabolism.substa…
Primary Reference: Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat, Nature, Oct 14, 2026
Nb: Overall, this is an excellent paper and true contribution to the literature.
Likely of interesting to: @realDaveFeldman @BenBikmanPhD @AdrianSotoMota @KetoCarnivore @TuitNutrition @ApoDudz @Mangan150 @DrAseemMalhotra @ProfTimNoakes @MikhailaFuller @mpetersenmdphd @MurseDarius @DrEricRodgers @AKoutnik
Rachel retweeted
I used to think cholesterol was simple. High is bad. Low is good. Take a pill. Problem solved.
Then I read the Korean study. 14.9 million people. Nine years of follow up. No one on statins.
And the result was a U-shape.
Very low LDL. More cardiovascular death. Very high LDL. More cardiovascular death. The safest zone sat right in the middle.
How can both extremes kill you if the number itself is the problem?
Because the number was never the problem.
Low LDL weakens your blood vessel walls. Cholesterol builds every cell membrane in your body. It makes your hormones. Drive it to the floor and the body cannot maintain itself. The vessels get fragile. They rupture.
High LDL in someone with insulin
resistance, chronic inflammation, and a damaged arterial wall is dangerous. Not because LDL attacked the wall. Because it got trapped inside a wall that was already broken.
But here is what the system never tells you.
A lean, active person eating real food can have LDL of 300 and be one of the healthiest people in the room. High HDL. Low triglycerides. No inflammation. Clean insulin. The LDL is high because their body is running on fat and transporting energy efficiently. Not disease. Metabolism.
Same number. Completely different biology.
Two people sitting in the same doctor's office. Same LDL on the lab report. One needs intervention. One does not. But both get handed the same prescription.
Because the system was built to treat the number. Not understand the environment the number lives in.
Stop chasing numbers. Start understanding your body.
A Giant Korean Study of 15 Million People Just Blew a Hole in the “Lower LDL Is Always Better” Story
Imagine tracking almost 15 million adults for nearly nine years and counting every death from heart disease and stroke. That’s exactly what Korean researchers did with 14.9 million people who weren’t even taking cholesterol drugs. What they found doesn’t match the simple message that “the lower your LDL, the safer you are.” Instead, the risk formed a U-shape. People with very low LDL died more often from cardiovascular causes, people with very high LDL also died more often, and the sweet spot sat right in the middle.
For overall cardiovascular death the lowest risk landed between about 90 and 149 mg/dL. Below that range or well above it, deaths went up. The pattern changed depending on the exact problem. For heart attacks and blocked arteries the best zone was lower (around 70–114 mg/dL). For some types of brain bleeds the risk kept falling only when LDL stayed higher. In plain terms, driving LDL as low as possible protected against one kind of death while raising the risk of others.
When the scientists looked only at the higher range (100 to 300 mg/dL) they still saw a clear rise in heart-attack deaths as LDL climbed. Each jump of about 40 mg/dL raised the chance of dying from ischemic heart disease by roughly 26 percent. But that rise was weaker in women and in older adults than in younger men. Even people in their late 70s and early 80s still showed some extra risk from higher LDL for heart attacks and ischemic strokes, yet the overall picture never became “lower is always safer.”
The study is huge, it followed real people instead of just guessing from lab tests, and it only looked at folks who were not already on statins. That makes the U-shape harder to wave away. Doctors still treat high LDL when people already have heart disease or several risk factors, because the top end of the curve is real. But the data also show that pushing every healthy adult toward rock-bottom LDL numbers is not free. Too low carried its own price in this massive population.
The takeaway is simple and uncomfortable: LDL cholesterol is not a one-way street. In nearly 15 million Koreans the safest zone for dying of cardiovascular disease was not the lowest number on the lab report. Both extremes cost lives. That single finding from one of the largest studies ever done keeps forcing the same awkward question—how low is actually low enough, and for whom?
Rachel retweeted
Adding a drug to our food supply crosses a red line that must never be crossed.
@paulfrewDUP @JimShannonMP @carlalockhart @JimAllister @ClaireHanna @RupertLowe10 @YvetteCooperMP @RobbieButlerMLA @ClareCraigPath
THIS IS TOTALLY UNETHICAL AND UNACCEPTABLE, Nuremberg Code, ethical principles. Its central rule is voluntary, informed consent is essential.
