Science Man eating 6-9 pounds of butter and cheese a day develops ‘cholesterol hands’ while on carnivore die

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A man who told doctors he ate nothing, but 6–9 pounds of butter, cheese and hamburgers every day for eight months ended up at Tampa General Hospital with yellowish lumps of cholesterol developing on parts of his body.

The backstory:

According to JAMA Cardiology, a man, who is only identified as being in his 40s, told doctors that he got diet advice from the internet and began following an extreme carnivore diet.

For eight months, he only ate 6–9 pounds of butter, cheese and hamburgers a day. He stopped eating all carbohydrates, such as bread and sugar.

At first, he said he felt great. He lost weight, became more energetic and had more mental clarity.

But after about eight months, he started developing yellow lesions on his eyelids. Over the next month, the yellow lesions appeared on the palms of his hands, the soles of his feet and his elbows.

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Doctors diagnosed him with xanthelasma, a rare condition that impacts about 1% of patients with high cholesterol.

What is xanthelasma?​

Dig deeper:

Xanthelasma is yellow raised deposits of cholesterol that appear under the skin because the body cannot process it.

It’s usually seen in people with familial hyperlipidemia, a condition in which patients cannot process cholesterol.

Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, an interventional cardiologist with Tampa Heart, Tampa General Hospital and USF Health co-authored a study on the patient for JAMA Cardiology said the lesions are not painful, but there is a concern about cholesterol.

According to Dr. Marmagkiolis, the patient checked his cholesterol levels every year for five years and they were normal. But his cholesterol increased five times abruptly after following the extreme carnivore diet.

What is the carnivore diet?​

Big picture view:

The carnivore diet is a type of keto diet and consists of cutting carbohydrates and eating nothing but meat and animal products. The idea is that by cutting carbohydrates, the body will use fat for energy and people will lose weight.

Dr. Marmagkiolis says that when carbohydrates and sugars are abruptly decreased, the body starts using fat as the main fuel for energy. The body then goes into a process called deep ketosis, which is when it produces ketones.

Without using carbohydrates, there is a very stable energy level in the body. Dr. Marmagkiolis says the ketones are very good steady energy or fuel, and there is dehydration.

Patients are not retaining water, and they are losing fat and people usually feel great after starting a carnivore diet.
The carnivore diet gives results very fast and people who follow it will feel great in the first weeks or months.

Dangers of carnivore diet​

The other side:

However, the problems start when people start eating too much fat, like this patient, and when cholesterol increases, it can deposit not only under the skin, but in other parts of the body and cause heart attacks and strokes.

Dr. Marmagkiolis recommends starting slowly.

He advises following a low-carb diet in the beginning and then moving on to a more balanced diet.

If someone does decide to follow the carnivore diet for a long period of time, they should work with a doctor or cardiologist to monitor their cholesterol levels.

Treating xanthelasma​

Dr. Marmagkiolis says there is no treatment of medication for xanthelasma.

He says that even if the cholesterol is treated, the xanthelasma remains.

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Dr. Marmagkiolis added that there are some good therapies a dermatologist can perform for aesthetic reasons, but doctors need to use the lesions as a marker of high cholesterol, which may be the first step of the body saying it cannot process cholesterol anymore, and it may deposit it in the body. That could be the first sign of atherosclerosis, the deposit of cholesterol in the arteries which increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

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This guy is a retard. It reminds me of those people that used to do the low carb diet and would eat like 2 or 3 hotdogs without the bun or those people that go to a fast food place and order a bunch of food and get a diet soda. Also, people who smoke but still bother to work out. You might as well not even bother. LOL
That's a fairly excessive amount of butter, cheese and ground beef. Every single fucking day. I'm honestly trying to picture eating that amount every single day and it's kind of mind boggling. Like picture 9 fucking pounds of butter. That's 36 sticks of butter. I don't even think my grocery store sells cheese by the pound but fucking 9 of those. 9 fucking packs of ground beef the size I use to feed two people sometimes for two days depending on what I make out of it or whatever combination of all three that adds up to that equivalent.

Every single day.


I don't think this dude's diet of an insanely retarded amount of cow products every day is really representative of what I usually hear about when I hear about carnivore diets.
What kind of weird shithole do you live in? Most grocery stores have a deli counter and they slice cheese there by the pound or any amount you want. If you want two pounds of cheese they will slice it for you.
"See, cholesterol and meat are bad. Have more chemicals, THATS what's healthy"
Everything in moderation. Even healthy shit can be unhealthy if you act like a retard.
this keto primal shit is so retarded

our ancestors ate anything they could. Meat, veggie, fish...anything. They were not only hunters who ate meat you moron they did not have that luxury as food was probably pretty damn hard to come by most times so they could not afford to be picky.
Early humans most likely had omnivorous diet. I heard neanderthals had extended guts because they would eat raw meat. Raw meat is harder to digest. Cooking food was a huge break through.
 
No diet calls for literal kilograms of butter and cheese daily, carnivore or otherwise, this guy is just insane
I propose this be considered a diet of its own, a special diet designed to be an origin story for the new superhero cholesterol man - a man covered in a protective cholesterol coating so powerful and saturated that he can induce a heart attack in supervillains simply by staring at them and concentrating

He can also spray a layer of slippery cholesterol out of his hands, coat a street in a greasy layer of it and proceed to travel quickly on it crocodile mile style. Perfect for quickly escaping supervillains and rescuing their busty kidnapping victims who happen to be wearing white tops that get see through whenever exposed to grease

Think of him as a white trash version of clayface, but with cholesterol. Perhaps he'll become more like clayface if a bunch of chinese doctors hold him down and pour a gallon of ozympic down his throat trying to cure him
 
According to a cursory google search, a pound of butter is like 3000 calories, and a pound of cheese/hamburger is like 1500 calories

There's no fucking way 6-9 pounds is what he's eating daily. If it's roughly equal amounts that's like 12-18k calories. Surely the article is wrong and it meant that was his weekly diet, right? I could see a person feeling fine and losing weight at those numbers weekly, and can only imagine the most horrifying dairy pregnancy belly if that's done daily.
 
What kind of weird shithole do you live in? Most grocery stores have a deli counter and they slice cheese there by the pound or any amount you want. If you want two pounds of cheese they will slice it for you.
The deli is staffed by high school aged retards and pajeets who can't even remember to remove the plastic from shit that's supposed to go in the oven. They have no cheese behind the deli counter and for some reason they cut all the cheese they do sell at the deli into like the tiniest chunks possible. Like I swear you can barely get slices out of the fucking things.
 
SIX TO NINE POUNDS?!

At my worst, on my "keto" diet of a cheeseburger grilled in butter every day, and "bulletproof coffee", I'd use maybe a stick of butter daily. That's a quarter pound.
This guy was eating, at minimum, DAILY, what I would in a month.

And he was expecting to lose weight?! He didn't think "Gee, I have the local Dairy Council wanting to know my address, I have yellow lesions ON MY EYELIDS, maybe I should slow down a bit"?!
 
The deli is staffed by high school aged retards and pajeets who can't even remember to remove the plastic from shit that's supposed to go in the oven. They have no cheese behind the deli counter and for some reason they cut all the cheese they do sell at the deli into like the tiniest chunks possible. Like I swear you can barely get slices out of the fucking things.
In my state they are staffed by people from their early 20's and up. I see a lot of people in their 30's and 40's working at the deli counters. 50+ as well. Yeah it's a pain in the ass getting them to slice the cheese and meat how you want it. Some will do it and others it's like pulling teeth or walking on a broken leg.
 
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