: Episode 959 – Software engineer, entrepreneur and cholesterol blogger Dave Feldman joins Vinnie to discuss his efforts to reverse-engineer the mystery of cholesterol and learn how to manipulate LDL scores with food.
DAVE FELDMAN
- Vinnie found Dave via a low-carb conference in Breckenridge
- Other luminaries like Fettke and Gerber attend
- Dave has a super interesting background in software engineering and entrepreneurship
- In fact, similarities to Ivor Cummins
- Ivor also not from sciencey science background but a cholesterol expert
- Dave comes largely from self-experimentation
- Though now his fans contribute data, too
- Also there is an enormous amount of belief on studies that are not double-blind, random, or controlled
- The science believed by many is not even good science
- Dave is trying to change this
- So, with his computer science background, he tries to reverse-engineer cholesterol
- Gaining a better understanding this way
- Dave is athletic, but had “bad” LDL numbers
- Realized many athletes have worse LDL numbers… wanted to figure out why
- Thus he decided to look into what cholesterol is and how the lipid system works
- More than anything else, lipid system is an energy distribution system
- Low-density Lipoproteins (LDL) meant to distribute fat based energy
- Cholesterol rideshares with this fat
- Figures out ways to artificially lower cholesterol
- Please check this video explaining some basic stuff about cholesterol
- There are four parts to check out
- Dave learns more each day
- Interesting fact: President of AHA recently had a heart attack
- Dave gets real sciencey in this podcast in laymen’s terms that people can understand
- The 4-1-1 on the science behind cholesterol
- Check out Dave’s website which is linked in the description above, and here
