[carbocation]

300 grams of oatmeal a day, basically nothing else, and your LDL only goes down 10%.

[brandonb]

Definitely shows the comparative power of medications. Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95%.

[RobotToaster]

Colestyramine basically works the same way as oatmeal, but is far stronger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colestyramine

[smt88]

> Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95%

What? Absolutely not. Not even close. Provide a source if you really believe this.

[lithocarpus]

It seems as if some researchers think that reducing this single metric without considering any other factors is inherently always a good thing and is very important.

[Snoozus]

the diet was just maintained for two days

[deadbabe]

Hardly “nothing else”. Two smoothies a day with 150g of oats blended in them will basically cover this. You’d still have plenty of room for other food.

[addaon]

But that's not what the study tested. The study showed that both calorie restriction, and calorie restriction combined with almost all calories from oats, reduced cholesterol; but that the effect was more durable for the latter case. No data was gathered on eating oats without calorie restriction in this study.

[resoluteteeth]

The oat diet was two days and the effect lasted two weeks though so it's not as bad as eating nothing but it's all the to e