An American from Tamba, Florida, began to notice quantities of cholesterol leakage from his skin after spending years eating fatty foods as part of a “meat eating diet”.
This forty -year -old went to Tampa General Hospital 3 weeks after the emergence of a pale yellow nodules that emerged from the comfort of his hands and the soles of his feet and his facilities, according to a report published in the Jama Cardiology magazine, and Newsweek wrote about it.
It turned out that this person was so eating many fatty foods that they started leaking from his skin.
According to what was reported, this citizen began following a “eating meat diet” 8 months before the symptoms appeared.
As the name may suggest, meat -based diets are characterized by eating animal foods in the first place (or only).
The carbohydrate diet is completely excluded, and instead depends on proteins and fats to obtain energy, which all come from animal sources.
People who follow a diet based on meat generally eat foods that include meat, fish, eggs, organs, bone marrow, full -fat dairy products and animal fats.
“His nutritional habits included eating large amounts of fat, consisting of 6 to 9 pounds of cheese, butter sticks and additional fats that are merged into daily hamburger,” the doctors wrote in their report.
This person told doctors that this diet causes him to lose weight, as well as the experience of “increasing energy and improving mental clarity”.
Doctors found that cholesterol levels in his blood were above 1000 milligrams/dL. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the “natural” cholesterol level is less than 200 milligrams/dL, and anything more than 240 milligrams/dL is considered “high”.
Yellow nodules
The alien yellow nodules of the American citizen later diagnosed that they are Xanthlazma, which causes yellow sediments under the skin that occurred due to the accumulation of cholesterol or other fats, and it is generally not harmful.
This condition is often associated with high levels of low -density sebaceous cholesterol (LDL) or triglycerides, which may leak from blood vessels and accumulate in the dermis, which is the skin layer located just below the surface.
The immune system responds to these accumulations, by sending white white blood cells to swallow cholesterol, which then turns into foaming cells that collect in the skin, and form the distinctive yellow plaques of sinklasma.
Konstantinos Marmakiolis, professor of cardiology and researcher from Tamba General Hospital – Newsweek – said that xantlasma is yellow plaques that usually on the eyelids.
“When the levels of cholesterol circulated in the bloodstream are very high and cannot be meticulous, adinglasma is formed due to the deposition of cholesterol inside the peritonous cells in the dermis,” he added.
But xantlasma itself is not harmful.
The accumulation of plaques in coronary arteries can reduce blood flow to the heart, which may lead to a heart attack. While cholesterol deposits in the arteries that provide the brain in the blood can cause anxious stroke.
High cholesterol can also weaken the arterial walls, which increases the risk of vascular expansion, which is a swollen and weak area in the artery. If the vascular expansion explodes, it may cause an internal bleeding that threatens life.
What doctors said is that this condition “highlights the effect of nutritional patterns on fat levels and the importance of managing high cholesterol in the blood to prevent complications.”