Is High Cholesterol Caused By A High Protein Diet?

Dr. Cordain's Response:

Hi Erica,

In my latest book, The Paleo Answer, I devote an entire chapter examining the link between dietary cholesterol, dietary saturated fat and high blood cholesterol levels. Basically the most recent meta analyses (these are studies that combine the results of multiple studies) show that dietary cholesterol and dietary saturated fat have little or no effect upon the development of fatal cardiovascular disease. These results are consistent with a book chapter I wrote in 2006 (Cordain L. Saturated fat consumption in ancestral human diets: implications for contemporary intakes. In: Phytochemicals, Nutrient-Gene Interactions, Meskin MS, Bidlack WR, Randolph RK (Eds.), CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2006, pp. 115-126.). You can download and read this paper at my website: (//thepaleodiet.com/research/)

Best wishes

Loren Cordain, Ph.D., Professor