Nick Norwitz MD PhD ✓
@nicknorwitz · Boston, MA · joined 23 Jul 2019
MD-PhD. Harvard-Oxford. 1.2M YouTube Best-Selling Metabolism Newsletter https://t.co/YoPdkV6tkd Educational content only. Not medical advice.
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ApoB 👉 In an obese or lean body?
Saturated fat 👉 In a milkshake or a steak?
Fructose 👉 In wild blueberries or pancake syrup?
Context always matters.
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How to Handle High Lp(a)
1/4) When I first found out I had high Lp(a), I was scared.
I knew what the number meant. My dad nearly had a heart attack at 44 years old, and he also had high Lp(a). I had every reason to be frightened.
But I'm not anymore. What changed wasn't my htt
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A case of two coronary scans: Nick Norwitz (high-fat, keto 🍳); Simon Hill (plant-based 🌱)
First, for context, this post is largely in response to an incredibly nuanced and non-dogmatic podcast conversation between @realDaveFeldman and @MurseDarius, one that had me scratching htt
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Could bacon and eggs be better breakfast for your heart than oatmeal? 6-month RCT in patients with obesity says... https://t.co/E8I7KHQtYv
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@nicknorwitz Since you supposedly include nuance, you may want to note that this was a highly selected population with severe obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease, precisely the metabolic phenotype in which carbohydrate restriction would be expected to have its largest e
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4/4) But could bacon and eggs really beat quinoa and corn when it comes to cardiometabolic health?
Get more nuances at today's free deep dive letter: https://t.co/OoTGKKCmh4 https://t.co/PUmzP9IVSF
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2/4) This was a six-month randomized controlled trial in which each diet was designed to produce ~10% weight loss.
👉 Keto: 4% of calories from carbs
👉Mediterranean: 50% of calories from carbs
👉Low-fat plant-based: Carbs = 70% of calories (and 5x less saturated fat than keto) http
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3/4) And if you’re wondering what was actually on this supposedly liver- and heart-healthy keto diet, meals included omelets with bacon and sausage, pulled pork, and cheesy beef.
Which, I have to admit, sounds a lot more appetizing to me than quinoa and corn. https://t.co/m4oHxl
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A Major Trial Put Keto Against the Mediterranean Diet. Keto Won.
1/4) In a head-to-head showdown between a keto diet, a Mediterranean diet, and a low-fat plant-based diet, keto came out on top for several cardiometabolic outcomes.
The researchers concluded: “These results https
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@nicknorwitz @realDaveFeldman @AdrianSotoMota Bro literally powned the entire cholesterol hypothesis pseudoscience cabal.
“LDL is an independent cause of heart disease”
Nick: *has highest LDL on earth for a decade and no plaque of any sort*
“wElL aCsHoOAlLy, hE iS yOuNg aNd He
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Here are more learning resources related to this report.
1) The StayCurious Metabolism Newsletter Announcement: https://t.co/UnGDYcmRII
2) The Broader StayCurious Metabolism Heart Health Archives (Dozens of articles covering hundreds of papers) https://t.co/c4y1hzvZWK
And now h
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🚨New Paper: "Seven Years of 700 Cholesterol Without Coronary Atherosclerosis: A Lean Mass Hyper-Responder Case Report"
Link: https://t.co/TjhqhgGf6M
For the past 7 years, I’ve been running what is essentially a natural experiment in cholesterol and heart health.
During that ht
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Against accounts of the same size
9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views14 472this account3 976median for 100K–1M
Reach, %11.34%this account1.54%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.13%this account1.33%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 14 472 | 3 976 | 3.64× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 11.34% | 1.54% | 7.36× |
| Engagement rate | 1.13% | 1.33% | 0.85× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
815.5K12 May
17.7K
2.1K
208.2K2 Sep
14.5K
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48.8K6 Sep
21K7 Sep
41.4K8 Sep
2.5K9 Sep
Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.34%12 May
1.22%
3.97%
0.42%2 Sep
1.02%
0.94%
1.77%
1.87%
1.67%6 Sep
1.13%7 Sep
0.90%8 Sep
1.93%9 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.33%.
What the audience does
Likes54.3%4 625 in total
Reposts9.7%827 in total
Replies2.7%227 in total
Quotes1.6%135 in total
Bookmarks31.8%2 706 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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