Man on ‘Carnivore Diet’ grows yellow nodules on hands, feet and elbows

You could say that the “carnivore diet” of this man eventually became a bit under his skin. For about eight months, a man from in forty maintained a mainly meat and dairy caret. This included many high -fat things such as six to nine pounds of cheese, whole sticks of butter and hamburgers with extra fat. This so -called “carnivore diet” helped him to lose weight and feel more energetic with a greater mental clarity. But “yellow”, here is what he eventually developed: yellow bumps on his palms, soles and elbows, As described in a case report published this week in Jama Cardiology.

And such yellowish nodules are probably not the kind of things you would like to have on your body, even if they are not painful or bringing other symptoms. People don’t tend to say: “Oh, finally, I have bumps on my palms, soles and elbows. Now I can jump on Tinder.” So after three weeks of these persistent bumps, the man saw a doctor. It appears that his cholesterol levels in the blood had risen to more than 1000 mg/dl of its typical level of 210 to 300 mg/dl. These yellow bumps were in fact deposits of cholesterol called Xanthelasmas.

What is a Xanthelasma?

Now Xanthelasmas are only harmless. They are also known as XP, which may sound like a version of Windows, but in this case stands for Xanthelasma Palpebrarum. Xanthelasma is a type Xanthoma – that is the accumulation of cholesterol or other types of fat under the skin in general – and can form on different parts of your body, usually on the inner aspects of your eyes, such as the corners of your upper or bottom eyelids.

A Xanthelasma is often a sign of high cholesterol levels

However, if you find such bumps, you should not just ignore them because they are often a sign of large amounts of cholesterol or other types of fat in your blood, although they can appear half the time when such levels are normal, According to a website of Cleveland Clinic He also estimates that 1% of people have such a condition.

High cholesterol levels can bring you a higher risk of heart disease and strokes. That’s because cholesterol can form plaques in your arteries that can block blood flow. Xanthelasma can also be a sign that you have a kind of thyroid or liver problem or diabetes. That is why you may want to get your thyroid hormone, blood sugar and liver enzyme levels. Weight gain and alcohol consumption are also other possible causes.

Xanthelasmas will not disappear yourself

If you wait for Xanthelasmas to disappear yourself, you wait a long time – as forever. They are not like pimples. You can’t squeeze or squeeze them or hide it until it passes. Even lowering cholesterol levels through nutrition or medication will not get rid of it if they have formed. The first -line treatment to remove Xanthelasmas is liquid nitrogen cryotherapy. Other options are surgical removal or use lasers, radio waves, chemical skin or extreme warmth. These are clearly not doing – it – yourself – yourself – options. Such treatments can cause pain, scars and different types of damage, especially in the wrong hands. That can be especially dangerous if the Xanthelasmas are around your eyes, because you have no more than two eyes, assuming that you are not a house fly.

Be warned. Xanthelasmas can often return after their removal, especially if your cholesterol level remains high. That is why patience and follow-up with your doctor are important.

Of course not everyone will get Xanthelasma on a carnivore diet. But having too much fat, cholesterol and sodium in your diet is the risk of only consuming animals -based products. So you had “butter”, watch out for eating too much butter, cheese and fleshy material. Another risk of holding on to meat and dairy products in the absence of vegetable foods does not get enough nutrients such as vitamin C, folic acid and fibers.

Be careful with every diet that sounds too simple and everyone tells to eat only one kind of food, such as the Carnivoor Diet. Although such diets may seem to benefit, diets and food recommendations must ultimately be adapted to someone’s body and circumstances. This is the principle behind Precision Nutrition, which can be complex as I have described earlier Forbes. That is why there are efforts to use artificial intelligence or AI to guide precision feeding. It is important to have a good balance in your diet and the intake of the nutritional value – the right amount for you – is important. In other words, you may want “meat” what you eat at least halfway.