{"id":656,"date":"2017-06-05T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:19:09","slug":"my-first-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/my-first-study\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While I’m in the process of refilling the coffers and am pretty limited on time<\/a>, I\u00a0am starting to lay some groundwork for my first study. It is my hope I can conduct it in the fall of this year, but that’s still to be determined.<\/p>\n

The study will need 12-20 volunteers who will be eating to a meal plan throughout 14 days while likewise taking many blood\u00a0draws for cholesterol testing throughout. Moreover, they will be sequestered to a large house in Las Vegas that will\u00a0serve as the staging area, where we will\u00a0record all key activities associated with the experiment. (The large house has been volunteered by a friend for the use of this experiment)<\/p>\n

One-half of the participants must be already on a ketogenic diet and will eat to a ketogenic meal plan. The other half must have already been on a carb-centric\u00a0diet and will be eating to a carb-centric meal plan.<\/p>\n

The participants can\u00a0make phone calls, work from computers, watch TV, play video games, etc. as they wish during this period. But food intake and blood draws will be taken on a prescribed schedule. While not\u00a0scheduled, proper sleep\u00a0patterns will\u00a0likewise be\u00a0expected. Unfortunately, working out or other forms of intensive exercise will be prohibited during the experiment period as they will likely impact the lipid data.<\/p>\n

There is also a likelihood this will be captured by a camera crew for a documentary (more on that later).<\/p>\n

If you’ve followed the work I do with myself and others, you know I’m extremely motivated to be as\u00a0precise and transparent as possible. I expect the data from this experiment to by highly scrutinized given what it will be showing<\/em> and thus, I’m very serious about keeping it well controlled<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My plan is to first secure a group of motivated volunteers before preparing a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the experiment. Requirements for volunteers:<\/p>\n