16/09/2025
Mettre les gens à un régime végétal avec des composants spécifiques réduisant le cholestérol, tels que les noix, le soja, les aliments contenant des fibres visqueuses et les noix, peut entraîner une baisse massive de 30 % de la LDL, ce qui est comparable à un médicament à statine réduisant le cholestérol. Cette réduction inclut également une baisse du petit LDL dense.
Removing saturated fat from the diet and substituting it with avocado may lead to a significant drop in cholesterol and triglycerides. But simply adding avocado without also reducing saturated animal fat does not appear to result in any benefits to cholesterol.
Any time you lower your intake of saturated fat in your diet, you’re going to lower your LDL cholesterol—whether you replace animal fats with plant-based fats or carbohydrates.
🥑 What if you replace animal fat with avocado? Avocados can reduce both large, fluffy LDL cholesterol and the small, dense LDL cholesterol too.
All LDL cholesterol negatively impacts our health, so we want to drop it regardless, but small, dense LDL is the worst.
Putting people on a plant-based diet with specific cholesterol-lowering components, such as nuts, soy, viscous-fiber-containing foods, and nuts, can lead to a massive 30% drop in LDL, which is comparable to a cholesterol-lowering statin drug. This reduction includes a drop in the small, dense LDL, too.
In the famed PREDIMED study, people randomized to get extra nuts showed a significant drop in their small LDL, while those randomized to extra virgin olive oil did not. There appears to be some special components in nuts that lower the worst of the worst LDL.
When it comes to lowering cholesterol, it’s not just a matter of replacing animal fat with any kind of plant fat. You get added benefits with whole plant foods, like avocados and nuts, because of the added benefits of their fiber and phytonutrients.
Watch the video “Avocados Lower Small Dense LDL Cholesterol” at see.nf/avocadoLDL.
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