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So I had another question.

How can eating fat lower my cholesterol, okay?

It's confusing because after all high fat diets will increase your cholesterol, right?

Not quite.

Here's what happens.

When you do a low fat diet, normally you will increase the carbs.

People that are on low fat diets are really on a high carb diet, okay?

And anytime you combine the carbs like sugar with the fat used by insulin, so not a good

situation.

In fact, a lot of the studies, in fact, most of the studies out there that show the harmful

effects of high fat diets are done with high fat diets fed to mice with lots of carbs.

And that's why they come out supporting that you need to do a low fat diet.

But the thing you need to know is that your body does make cholesterol.

It makes a lot of it.

It makes 3,000 milligrams.

That's a lot.

In fact, that would be equivalent to consuming 14 eggs or a pound of butter every single

day.

So your body makes the same amount of cholesterol.

So when you lower the dietary cholesterol, your body will then make more, okay?

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