Insulin spikes and cortisol spikes due to high sugar consumption damage epithelial ining of blood vessels first. Then calcium and cholesterol attach to those microtears. Would be wonderful if practitioners understood the role of sugar damage to the entire body.
I think you are right about the damage sugar does. I was hoping for a new study to say it's good for you but I think I better just give up the sugar habit.
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Thank you for this informative video. I always had low LDL, high HDL and low triglycerides. I had a lipid panel a few weeks ago that showed "dangerously high" LDL at 176. Total cholesterol was 245. My HDL and triglycerides were great, indicating minimal risk. Cholesterol ratio is still good at 3.5. I think something is odd about my results. My ARNP sent me for a coronary calcium scan. This showed "significant levels of plaque that puts me at high risk of a major cardiac event." How could my LDL be so elevated in just a few years time with significant plaque in 2 arteries but a 0 score in other arteries? I am very strict with my diet trying to manage osteoporosis and CKD 3a. These results do not make sense to me. My glucose is usually on the lower end. I always had low BP until I had the J&J vax. My BP shot up very high and medication was required. After 3 years, I am almost to the point where I can stop medication. I am at the lowest dose and some days, BP is so low that I do not take it.
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Surprised you didn't mention exercise to lower cholesterol. It's not just about bodyfat. Exercise is usually part of the recommendations, and it can help, especially cardio types. Also, estrogen sufficiency and optimization help.
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We make cholesterol in the body and we need it to make hormones. In the arteries it is used to patch damage due to inflammation due to metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance due to elevated carbs and ultra processed foods. Seed oils (i.e. vegetable oils) are full of inflammatory and rancid omega 6 fats.
Thanks for acknowledging all the “noise” and contradicting info out there for both providers and lay people. The inflammation factor and metabolic health opens a whole lot of discussion. Would be interesting to know how this relates to those treated in past and present with Ornish protocol for diet and cardiac rehab.
Insulin resistance and Diabetes are one of the biggest risk factors for heart disease. Statins have insulin resistance/diabetes (T2)/losing blood sugar control as a potential side effect.
You may have addressed this in another video and may be one of those duh questions, but since inflammation can cause cholesterol to be elevated, do you think elevated cholesterol levels could be the body's response to inflammation caused by osteoporosis, arthritis and other bone-related issues and maybe it's more important to address that first as opposed to making changes to diet?
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Do I need to worry about an hdl of 90? Always been on the high side. But reading too high might be opposite of protective. Total 226 (always been “ high” and my cholesterol/hdl ratios range between 2. 3 and 2.9. 🤔
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What Dr can do imaging or ccta? Cardiologist? Mr pcp just tells me to watch my diet for my high cholesterol. I already eat a clean healthy diet. No other issues.
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You need to get the CAC score before the life style change or 2-3 years after and then get another one 1-2 later. A CAC score basically tells you what happened until 2-3 years ago.
I was calling for all the people who have been living the low carb high fat lifestyle and have high cholesterol to get the scan. . I myself know a couple of people that eat that way and had a score of zero. Kinda blows the lid off of high cholesterol and heart disease. I think its just a matter of fear mongering and pushing statins.The way I understand it, your score won't get better, from your starting point, but if you change to a high fat low carb it shouldn't climb any higher. @@wocket42
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So, CAC first for women before prescribing them a statin. What roles would HRT play in the cholesterol/statin story? And what doses or levels of oestradiol would we need ? Thank you 😊xx
Very good point point at what level is estrogen needed to have protective cardio effects Would love to know how I get that info thanks for a good video
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You talked specifically about ‘statins’. i found I was unable to take statins after several different ones and memory/joint side effects. Was given Praluent injectable. Does Praluent have the same mag/coq-10, insulin resistance side effects???
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Can you talk specifically to lipoprotein (a) in another video? I have the genetic piece. That’s where the confusion comes in for me and my family. Sister had hear-attack at 57.
Lpa is thought to be an acute phase reactant...meaning it has an active role in the immune system and responding to damage. Some people have genetically higher lpa values and in the normal population it's been noted that they have a higher likelihood of cvd events. Lpa is also an apob carrying lipoprotein. Arterial damage is caused by damage to the glycocalyx which is the lining of the artery plus inflammation. High levels of blood glucose (eg insulin resistance) damages the glycocalyx. Also it is likely that oxidized ldl damages this as well. Ldl becomes oxidized by high blood glucose but also oxidized fats such as transfats oxidized polyunsaturated fats such as seed oils. High lpa people are more sensitive to this damage which accelerates plaque formation. Therefore for High lpa people, it is doubly important to reduce blood glucose (stop or reduce carb consumption), and stop consuming seed oils. The easiest way to do both of these things is to stop eating processed foods. Eat whole foods. You do not need to fear saturated fats.
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No, I used imaging to stratify the quantity of risk from my lipids and have very little disease. I'm using Zetia and observation with repeat imaging in 2-3 years.
I have been watching my carbs (no cookies, hardly any foods that contain white flour, no or very very little processed foods, etc) but recently had an A1C that showed it had actually gone up…. Was 6.4. Used to be 5.7. I am now on anastrazole (for 6 months)…. Could anastrazole cause my A1C to go up? I have been trying to be very careful and eat healthy!
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Cholesterol does not explain why 50% of people that have CVD have low or normal cholesterol. Also, the WHO Total Cholesterol levels vs Mortality data from 164 countries with data from over one hundred million people shows that higher level of cholesterol reduces all cause mortality.
Heart disease at its current level in the population is a very recent phenomenon, so something we are doing differently is the likely cause of this precipitous increase. Medications to change how our bodies work - attempting to defeat the wisdom of millions of years of evolution - are at best buckets to bail a boat with a hole in the hull. We can invent bigger buckets or bail faster, but until we repair that hole, that boat is always at risk of sinking.
In Australia one of the leading causes of death in women is Dementia. Statins reduce cholesterol and the BRAIN also needs (20-25%?). Some are connecting dots.
Watched this video a second time. Very informative. By way of a point of interest to you as a Lean Mass Hyper Responder, I wondered if you had seen the Oreo experiment (link at end). It's not anything you would want to do or recommend anyone else to do but how it lowered cholesterol in a Lean Mass Hyper Responder much more effectively than a statin (70% vs 30%) is interesting. Thanks for the information you provide. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L1mMnnyJrgk.html
