This man eats so much butter, cheese and beef that cholesterol seeps off his skin

What could go? Wrong when eating an extremely high -fat diet of beef, cheese and butter sticks? On the one hand, your cholesterol level could reach such stratospheric values ​​that lipid sitting from her blood vessels and yellowish nodules on your skin.

That was the disturbing case of a man in Florida who performed in a Tampa hospital with a three-week history of painless, yellow outbreak on the palms, his feet and elbow. His case was published in Jama Cardiology today.

The man who was offered in the forties told the doctors that he had adopted a “carnivore diet” eight months earlier. His diet included between 6 and 9 pound cheese, butter sticks and daily hamburgers, where additional fat was built into them. Since he refined this food plan for brows, he claimed that his weight had decreased, his energy level rose and his “intellectual clarity” improved.

In the meantime, its total cholesterol level was 1,000 mg/dl. For the context, an optimal overall cholesterol level is Under 200 mg/dlwhile 240 mg/dl is considered the threshold for “high”. Cardiologists found that his cholesterol level was between 210 mg/dl to 300 mg/dl in front of its fat diet.

The cardiologists diagnosed the man with Xanthelasma, an illness in which excess blood lipids sit from blood vessels and form localized lipid deposits. The escaped lipids would normally be taken through white blood cells, which are called macrophages. In cases with Xanthelasma, the amount of lipids is too large for the macrophages, which turn into foam cells with excess cholesterol levels, which leads to visible deposits.

Such deposits are often seen around the eye (a state known as Xanthelasma Palpebrarum), which people often affect lipidanomalies such as family hypercholesterolemia. It is believed that the continuous flashing of the eye about a person’s life can finally weaken the capillaries in the area and can enable lipid seepers. Although this may be a more common representation of the condition, lipid deposits can occur anywhere in the body.

Pain -free yellowish nodules were observed on the patient’s palms (A) and the elbow. B, enlarged view of the Palmar lesions. These lesions agree with Xanthelasma, which are probably due to severe hypercholesterolemia in connection with a high-fat carnivore diet.

Photo: Jama Cardiologym 2024, Marmagkiolis et al.

Xanthelasma – especially Xanthelasma Palpebrarum – is not always associated with high cholesterol levels and cardiac risks, but it is a high overall cholesterol level strongly connected to coronary heart disease.

The case study does not contain any information about the prospects of the man. However, the authors write that the case “emphasizes the effects of nutritional patterns on lipid levels and the importance of the treatment of hypercholesterolemia to prevent complications.”

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica.