126
Man eating 6-9 pounds of butter and cheese a day develops ‘cholesterol hands’ while on carnivore diet (www.fox10phoenix.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk
28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

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

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Thats a pretty cynical take and not really what I'm saying at all.

I have type 2 diabetes. I've never been clinically obese, nor consumed much sugar, I just lost the genetic lottery and have a sub standard pancreas.

GPs just prescribe meds. More and more meds to manage blood glucose levels. It's not hyperbole to say that kidney failure and dialysis is a likely outcome albeit 10 years in the future.

Nutritionists will always formulate a "modified Mediterranean diet", it's really the only diet that most patients have any chance of adhering to. Advising anything else would be a waste of breath.

Instead ive adopted a very restrictive diet that anyone would struggle to adhere to and most people just wouldn't attempt. Additionally I've been able to maintain enough regular exercise to build some muscle mass and lose some weight. I'm 43 now, but stronger than I've been in my entire life.

You're welcome to be a snarky lemmy commenter if that floats your boat, but the people in my life who care about me, and that I care about, universally acknowledge the extraordinary efforts I have invested in not dying.

I have always followed the advice of my GP and my endocrinologist regarding what medications I should take, but as a result of my own efforts I've been able to discontinue most of the meds while keeping my pathology numbers in the right range.

Only you can meaningfully improve your health, and you'll need to investigate your options online. A GP can prescribe medications for you and tell you that you've gone down the wrong path ( like eating 4kg of butter) but they can't help you figure out how to maintain your health.

In summary, following my GPs advice, and not investigating how to improve my health and lifestyle, would have been rich easier option.

this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
126 points (90.9% liked)

And Finally...

1249 readers
87 users here now

A place for odd or quirky world news stories.

Elsewhere in the Fediverse:

Rules:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Emperor@feddit.uk