The lipid triad consists of “high LDL, high HDL and low triglycerides which constitutes a metabolic signature of an eggs-treme shift from carb-burning to fat-burning,” he said.

Adding carbs back into the diet of the “lean, mass hyper respondents” can lower the LDL.

However, Norwitz chose fruit, including blueberries, bananas and strawberries, to eat in the final two weeks, resulting in the dramatic drop.

Sixty grams of net carbs per day weren’t enough to reverse his “lean, mass hyper responder phenotype” but had a significant enough effect to “ebb and flow out” of ketosis.

“The extra dose of carbs dominated over the insane amounts of cholesterol I was consuming,” he said.

The Oxford University PhD recipient says he was eating 75 grams of saturated fat or 100 calories and about 5,000 milligrams per day of dietary cholesterol.

The American Heart Association recommends no more than 6 percent of the daily caloric intake should be saturated fats.

Norwitz says the reason he took on the “crazy” experiment was to invoke “intellectual provocation” on the extreme messaging when it comes to the topic of diets on social media.

Describing it as “legit-bait” Norwitz used his bizarre diet and storytelling to get more researchers interested and involved in the study of metabolic health.