2024 Metabolic Health Conference: Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin Therapy in a Lean Mass Hyper-Responder on a Ketogenic Diet.

I attended the Metabolic Health Conference in Clearwater, Florida, where I saw several exciting presentations regarding metabolic health and well-being. I will write about many of these in the coming weeks. The one that grabbed everyone’s attention was Nick Norwitz’s presentation on lowering LDL cholesterol with Oreo cookies compared to statin medications.

The title was: Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin Therapy in a Lean Mass Hyper-Responder (LMHR) on a Ketogenic Diet.

With permission - Nick Norwitz

A diet of Oreo cookies was twice as effective at reducing LDL or so-called bad cholesterol compared to high-intensity statin therapy. The innovative experiment by Nick Norwitz, a Harvard Medical student with a doctorate in metabolism and nutrition from the University of Oxford, and William Cromwell focused on how a diet of Oreo cookies and statins on cholesterol levels in a unique group of individuals known as “lean mass hyper-responders.”

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