Thread by @DaveKeto

1/ It’s ironic, I came across an email I wrote almost 3 years ago when I was first pushing for a “Study on atherosclerosis in LMHRs”. For that first 1.5 years I tried to raise interest and money from inside the system. Some of these details I’ll go into with the book eventually..

2/ Not at all calling anyone out — just noting that it took me a while to realize it was likely a dead end.

For almost all of them, the answer to this question was already known: High LDL LMHR = high atherosclerosis

(And FWIW, it’s possible they’re right— we’ll soon see...)

3/ Then I had the crazy idea to start a charity and announce at #LowCarbHouston in Oct 2019 that we’re going to just try to straight up raise the money to do this study through crowdfunding.

And you know what?

The community stepped up.

4/ We’re nearly through the IRB (knock on wood), and I still can’t speculate on timing for the launch yet.

But I can tell you that we wouldn’t be here without a lot of low carbers (and a few nonLCers) underwriting this important endeavor.

Thanks for making this possible. 🙏