I prefer you look at the camera to better emulate an actual conversation/lecture. I still appreciate your tireless commitment to staying on top of the latest research. Keep up the good work. 👍
Interesting! I have had asthma, literally everyday of my life! I'm 67 years old and have been hospitalized and spent much of my youth in emergency rooms! I've been on steroid inhaler for years which helped me, but since I went keto/carnivore about 18 months ago and I have cut way down on medications and even forget to take it!! I am LMHR, lDl is 267! I feel great!!
I would rather be in the appropriate range of cholesterol then that of what the doctors strive for which seems to be around 1/3rd of where it should be
Large studies that analyzed medical records of millions of people in Denmark shows that the lowest death rate was associated with LDL level between 135-189. Also high LDL levels were not associated with higher risk when the CAC (Coronary Calcium Score) levels of the person were 0
@@nataliajimenez1870 yeah it seems that being between 180 and 200 is your best bet, for active people that is, but I'm starting to think maybe 170 to 190 is better
I agree. Almost a year ago I got blood work done and my LDL-C was 138. The doctor wanted to put me on statins. I said no. I'm due for blood work again in a few months. This time I'm going to get it done in an independent lab.
Yes, 1/3 of the actual overall number, guarantees you will be paying for medications you don't need! Right, our doctors give a crap about my body!! We are only walking cash machines, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just did blood work I’m 30 years old eat very clean work out consistently no smoking or alcohol ever my LDL is 200s and my doctor wants me to see cardiologist and possibly get on meds for it this has me paranoid and anxious about my health but informative videos like this are helping a ton
Same here. Several months ago, my triglycerides were only around 40, but my LDL cholesterol was somehow 168. My previous, less professional doctor believed this would lead to a heart attack or stroke. He insisted I take medication immediately or I would be dead soon, which caused me a great deal of concern and developed into health anxiety. Because of him, I’m still struggling with health anxiety now. I didn’t follow his advice and instead tried managing my diet and exercising, but my cholesterol remained high and my anxiety worsened. Later, I consulted a new doctor who said that high LDL isn’t a major issue unless it’s accompanied by high triglycerides. He recommended fasting, increasing exercise, following a keto diet, and taking omega-3 supplements. It’s been 2 months now since I met him, and I haven’t tested my cholesterol yet.
My doctor is concerned because my recent test showed cholesterol 247 and LDL is 163. But my Triglyceride is 49 and HDL is 74. For a year now I have been careful with my diet. I only use avocado oil, EVO oil, and grassfed butter, no seed oil/vegetable oil. I also do low carb diet and IF. I have lost 30 lbs since.
I fast and do low carb mostly. I need to lose 30lbs. I've been stuck though. Trying to increase my fasting times. My LDL was high too. Hope you are figuring things out. ♡
The more I watch this your YT channel, the more I appreciate you. Thank you for covering all of these new studies. If it weren’t for you, I’d never know there is data out there that challenges Big Pharma on LDL, etc.
Your presentation style--in which you jump right into relevant data and keep the flow of information coming---is a terrific format that facilitates focus and learning. (This is in contrast to a slow or rambling style that can make it harder for a listener to stay focused. With that style my mind can get bored and wander onto other things.) So thank you for all your concise presentations of fascinating and important information! It's a joy to click on your video links!
Thank you for your work to bring these studies to us! I workout 3xper week, my BMI is 23 (but I am muscular), and I am 65 year old. My LDL is 163 and the morons with diplomas want me on statins. Ever since the food pyramid was introduced in the late 70's, we have been getting sicker and fatter. Yet, the medical industry makes more profits every year. They are failing us!! If they knew what they were doing, we would be getting more healthy. If you break a bone, go to doctor. Hopefully, they will know what a bone is... Otherwise, eat healthy, whole foods, exercise and practice good sleep hygiene and you will be just fine.
Any LDL test over 100 is a potential risk. So, rather than being defensive and calling skilled medical professionals, "morons", have you thought about getting a calcium score and an APO-B test? If you active and skinny then you need to look at statins, more, not less, than the general population. It's probably high genetically, meaning you will always be at risk despite living a healthy lifestyle. So do I, and my LDL was 78. I am also muscular. I work out every day. My BMI is 25. Your comments about the food pyramid were not only false, but you had contradicted yourself towards the end. Overeating and eating refined carbohydrates that have little nutritional value is the real problem.
@@dan-qe1tb You can take your statins and suffer as the mevalonate pathway in your body shuts down. I never contradicted myself. Re-read my comment. As for LDL being a risk, I can tell that you did not listen to Mike, nor have you actually done any research into the HEALTH benefits of VLDL and LDL and how just as many people with low LDL have heart attacks as those with high LDL. There is no correlation!
@@grochef You know what? You could have a stroke or a heart attack tomorrow, and I wouldn't care. LDL levels at twice the recommended guideline, of any size, in your blood, do pose a risk, and should be followed up with a calcium score or apo-b test. How do you know if what you're doing is safe, if you haven't had either of those? The larger amounts of cholesterol that your organs themselves make are essential, yes, but that's not what matters. Your risk of getting clogged arteries, is. I don't take a statin and my LDL was less than half of yours. I had gotten off of it from weight loss. YOU are the one with the problem. Gil Carvalho had covered the sizes of LDL particles and the risk they pose, many times.
Thank you for this video. My doctor tried to put me on a statin because my LDL is high, 200, and they are the buoyant particales, but my hdl is golden and tri’s are super in a fasted state and after eating. I eat a high fat diet- meat, olive oil, coconut, no seed or vegetable oils, whole food based diet- no grains. I run ultramarathons- and even with all that she still thought a statin needs to be employed. I’m seriously losing trust in the medical system in general as they seem to seek the patients addiction to drugs rather than their addiction to eating well and exercising. It’s dangerous out there.
Me Too! They think that everyone should incur the same testing numbers. My LDL is 307 - so I guess I will be living long. My mom’s 93 and her mom lived until 100 and I’m sure their numbers were poor. No F-ing Way am I ever in my life taking any Statins.🎉
That IS very high. You need help if you eat well and exercise and your LDL is still 200. And, not just for the high LDL, but for accepting conspiracy theories from unbalanced diet gurus on social media. Seed and vegetable oils aren't toxic. Whole grains are healthy. Have you been watching those quacks Ken Berry and Eric Berg?
@@dan-qe1tb Wow. Thanks for the laugh. That was good… do you do stand up routines on RU-vid threads often? Let me know when your next lack of talent performance is.. I’m there!
Thank you for the great info. LMHR with LDL 198, HDL 120, Tri 57, BMI 16.5. My doctor refuse to check my other markers unless I take Lipitor 😢. I think I need a new doctor😅
In her book, Good Energy, Dr. Casey Means tells us that there are two types of LDL. Type-A and Type-B. Type-A accounts for 80 % of total LDL. Type-A fluctuates easily from dietary fat intake (meat, full fat dairy, etc.). Type-B is produced by sugar intake. Statins lower only Type-A LDL which can be easily lowered by diet. Statins do not lower Type-B LDL. And it is the Type-B LDL which accumulates inside our blood vessels. Statins can dramatically lower total LDL because they work on the 80% of LDL (Type-A), but you need to lower the 20% one (Type-B) by cutting added-sugar foods from your daily diet. The 1990s US food pyramid failed (miserably) because it did not distinguish disaccharides from polysaccharides.
Love you Mike. When I went keto I instantly discovered what excessive carbohydrate ingestion had been doing to me all those years. It's a revelation. It's nice to see what I know to be true gaining momentum. It hurts me to see people suffering from afflictions we now know how to cure, still eating the cause every single day, constantly topping up their sugar, never healing. Sometimes I try to tell people, but the errant dogma of the past 60 years is so entrenched, I don't find much success. Thanks for what you do.
Love your work, Doctor! You were one of the few Loan brave voices during the hysteria of the jab you event, and I am eternally grateful to you for your work, and for the great spirit that you use when you try to teach us things and I totally agree with you.have a good day, sir bye
Not directly related to this video but sometimes people don't respond to older videos as much. You had a video a little while about Testosterone Tanking Chemicals. I have been thinking about that one for a while now and want to start getting away from some of the stuff I am using but I guess finding a replacement isn't always easy either. If you are looking for video ideas I think one that would be helpful for your viewers would be substitutes for their current cleaners. There are so many brands out there it would probably just be easier to do what you use in your life and why and what to look for. I know that's getting semi-personal so I could understand why you might not want to do that but it would give people a great baseline to start their changes from and go from there. I really appreciate all the information you are putting out there about functional medicine.
As a LMHR I love this - it´s hard to go against your MD and mainstream and studies like this makes it easier! Thank you for sharing those studies! I just got a CAC-score of 71 and decided to wait a year or two to get a new scanning before changing my low carb/ keto/ IF lifestyle for 7 years Formerto that I have metabolic syndrome and former smoker too :)
I'm an LMHR. I have a cardiologist that wants to use statins to lower my LDL over 400! I actually feel bad for him. He seems smart, but he's in a job where he's lost all curiosity and his job doesn't use his brain much. He had no idea what an LMHR is. He just saw a number that he was taught to lower. He wants all of his patients to have an LDL below 70.
I like the statement that you made about overall lifestyle. Framing high LDL risk within the context of people who also have multiple other risk factors which may be more causative makes sense (hypertension, hyperglycemia, sedentary, etc.)
For the past five years my doctor's been trying to get me on statins despite my health being the best it's been in years. I just keep refusing them because nothing bad is going on with me.
No you didn't. Your body makes 80% of cholesterol. If you eat more the body makes less. Consumption of cholesterol has no affect on cholesterol levels.
Excellent, thank you for the information!! I was just explaining this to my sister in law Monday. Coincidentally today I got my bloodwork from 2 weeks ago and it says my total/ LDL Cholesterol was high. Now trying to figure out what exactly this means for me. ♡
You’re not asking the right question. Is a high LDL relevant at all when it it comes to heart disease and does lowering LDL by itself in patients who have metabolic syndrome have any benefits?
I am almost 65. Have high HDL , Low triglycerides, High LDL. Also had a high CAC score. Workout consistently my whole life , had a nuclear stress test, passed with flying colors, no blockages, they had a hard time getting my heart rate up high enough. I had to jog on a incline. I eat low carb, also I don't drink anything but mineral water or regular water. Very little alcohol, because I know it's a poison. Anyway, I feel great, I refused my doctor statin drugs. I am going to roll the dice. My main health goal is lowering my HBA1C. Statins to me, have to many downstream side effects. Including raising your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 70%.
I love watching my cholesterol annually. it's been high 230, now its 200, my ldl is 116 ("high") and HDL 66. they always want me on statins for 5 years now, im 60, 5'3, 115 lbs. exercise daily, incorporating more veggies now, off bread recently and getting to 1-2 drinks max per week.
Perhaps our bodies increase as we age for a reason. Could it be that natural body regulation was created the way it was for a reason? We need to stop messing with the natural order of things.
My LDL was at 341 mg/dL at my last blood test and I got an email from my doctor saying I should go on a low fat diet haha. My triglyceride are healthy at 82. I'm 28 btw. Meanwhile I excise daily, don't eat processed foods and am at 8% body fat feeling amazing.
People that have a bad diet will also lie about their diet in a questionnaire 😂 Its definitely a good starting point to dive deeper in researching this (high LDL and longevity)
I was just flagged for high cholesterol and high HDL, go figure. I have posted this on here and been told my blood work was good but I'm not educated enough to know, hence that's why I asked. T-Cholesterol - 266, HDL- 137, LDL- 119, VLDL (whatever that is)- 10, Triglycerides- 48. Anyone think this is bad?
Triglyceride levels are measured in milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) or millimoles per liter (mmol/L) and are usually categorized as follows: Healthy: Less than 150 mg/dL for adults and less than 90 mg/dL for children and teens (ages 10-19) Borderline high: 150-199 mg/dL High: 200-499 mg/dL Very high: 500 mg/dL or above over 250 total cholesterol is starting to need your diet considered at an/or exercise your HDL is very high..... High HDL levels may also be linked to thyroid disorders, inflammatory diseases, and excessive alcohol consumption.
I can't help but think that married people survive longer simply because of mutual nagging to exercise more and eat less junk. In an emergency, marrieds also have someone there to call 911 or take us to the hospital..
I have atherosclerosis. Why? It has nothing to do with my LDL. (Total Cholesterol-260, HDL- 112, LDL - 143, Triglycerides- 60). I have the worst version of the heart attack gene (P921) and a sub optimal version of both antioxidation genes and Nitric Oxide genes. And, I am missing the gene that codes for the enzyme that makes glutathione in my gut. This means I have a much greater risk of damage to my endothelial lining….which is the actual cause of atherosclerosis. And not knowing any of the above, I ate the Standard Western American diet and in my 50s started to run half-marathons and marathons….the absolute worst possible kind of exercise for my genetics. Result…I developed atherosclerosis. But here’s the good news….I have been able to stabilize and even reverse my plaque. My most recent CIMT revealed a lot of Calcified plaque and next to zero Inflammation on the IMT….in other words no soft plaque, only old calcified plaque. My arterial age was 14 years younger than my chronological age! How did I do it? No prescription drugs! I gave up ALL grains I eat a low lectin diet (my cardiologist is Dr Gundry) I stopped drinking CA wines (and my glyphosate level went from 26 to 4) I eat in an 8 hour window I exercise in the morning before I eat I do regular hot saunas I eat only organic, pastured meat and poultry and wild caught fish I eat dark chocolate every day And my hours of deep and rem sleep are excellent And finally….I take supplements that are based on my specific genetics and bloodwork- no guesswork. Podcasts like this are so important because they arm us with important information that can help inform our decisions about our own health.
My LDL is 230 and Triglycerides is 77. My Dr. recommended Citrus Bergamont to lower it before giving me Fenofibrate. I do OMAD 5 days a week mostly keto low carb diet. Im confused 🤦🏽♂️
Super confused bc the study you link demonstrated high LDL is a serious risk factor. Also, insurance companies want to insure people, why does high LDL knock someone out of getting insured. Do you believe the insurance companies don't know the data around increased LDL given the millions of patients they are able to analyze?
Conclusion _"Our investigation concluded that in American asthmatic populations, LDL-C levels were inversely and linearly correlated with mortality. However, no independent relationship was found between triglycerides, total cholesterol, or HDL-C and mortality."_
At this point now iPhone 15 uses USB-C charger instead of lightning. One can track USB-C cohort and try to link it to pulmonary complications from pod usage for their Ph.D.
We can debate all day long if ldl is a causal factor in cvd but the fact is in the case of people born with hypercholesterolemia, they develop cvd very rapidly *unless* it’s immediately addressed. People born with genetically low cholesterol have a much lower incidence of cvd. How do you explain that one if LDL isn’t the problem?
Two major problems with this study. The first is they used self reported diagnosis of asthma so we have no way of knowing if patients were actually asthmatic or not. The other is that they didn't look at lipid lowering therapy during follow up which is a major issue. If people had to go on lipid lowering therapy they could have health conditions that predispose them to higher risk of mortality. This was discussed directly by the authors in the discussion section "Yet, we must acknowledge certain limitations in our investigation. We selected patients with asthma based on questionnaire responses rather than pulmonary function testing due to limitations in the database. And this study lacks information on the use of lipid-lowering drugs in the population during follow-up". There was no benefit seen in nonasthmatic patients. Copied directly from the discussion in the study. "We observed an independent association between serum LDL-C levels and all-cause mortality in the asthmatic population, but not in the non-asthmatic population" Supplementary table 1 in the fully adjusted model contains 1 in the CI. You also do not get low grade sepsis acutely when you eat processed foods. There's defined diagnostic criteria for sepsis and that isn't going to occur acutely after eating processed foods. I do agree with you that myopic focus on LDL misses the point. You do have you take into account the totality of risk factors and individualize your recommendations. Statins are definitely over prescribed and lifestyle interventions underutilized.
@jodyjackson5475 ya, I was confusing apob with a1c. it's about your sugars and carbs, and how well or not your body and blood has handled those in the past few months. I meant a1c.
Hello, my LDL-Cholesterol was 136, High according to conventional standards. HDL 51 and Triglycerides 61, Total Cholesterol 202 H. Am I at risk for a heart attack? Everything else on my labs look good. I am planning to visit a doctor and afraid he is going to try to medicate me. What are your thoughts? Thanks
Ive been exploring ketovore or carnivore diet and my biggest hesitation is that I honestly don't know what to think about cholesterol. I have a family that relies on me so I'm hesitant. I basically do ketovore with lots of fish, olive oil, and avocados. The big argument of statin people is that cholesterol in sick people - people fighting cancer, heart attack victim, etc. goes down due to those sicknesses and thats why low ldl shows higher mortality. What the counter argument to this?
Ask them how cancer affects cholesterol, the hypothetical cell biology behind it. Also LDL is the main villain which causes heart attack according to the mainstream medical professionals. If that is true (hypothetically), why does the LDL become low after a heart attack?
When you control for the reverse causation, the picture is still the same or there is no relationshio between LDL-C and mortality. Also, when you control for HDL/trigs LDL-C has little predictive value. Other risk factors are way more important: hypertension, diabetes, inflammation etc - keto tends to improve these factors. LDL is meaningless without context: metabolic state, sub-type of LDL etc. Hypercholesterolemia is not a disease. Measure the disease instead and get a CAC.
What do I need to do if im 38. Fit and workout regularly high stress and my dad died of a heart attack and had high cholesterol. My calcium score from a CT angiogram was 6.9. They found minimal plaque in my LAD and said aggressive statin therapy with crestor. I’m torn over the info out there. Im aiming on taking my triglycerides lower and improving my hdl to triglyceride score. ApoB and A were both at the brink of the levels. Dont know what to make of all of this and how to improve things
I generally put a lot of faith and trust in what you say because it seems very grounded in research. But it seems a bit disingenuous and misinformation-ish to flatly state “every time you eat fast food you get low grade sepsis.” 5:55 Like, “Normally I’m a vegetarian, but I ate at Wendy’s for lunch and now I have metabolic endotoxemia this afternoon.” Isn’t it that an overall typical Western diet causes it?
Well understood. However Dr. Tells me my small LDL-P value is 1374... I'm 70 , 129 lbs, non diabetic, very active. Normal b/P ...non smoker.....he wants Me on a statin. Total ldl, 270, total cholesterol371, triglycerides164...so confused... Yes I fasted, @4 hrs..
1. Statins do not reduce small ldl. Side effects will cripple you. 2. Fire your doctor. 3. Change your diet to low carb, high fat and retest your small ldl after 3 months.
So, I just received blood work back today, which is why I'm watching this lol. Doctor said LDL is 146. I was vegan for about 5 years up until about 3 weeks prior to this blood work, recently started eating fish, I'd say about a month before the test. Doctor said we will do blood work again in 4 to 6 months and check again. I'm a healthy, 40 y.o. male, I lift weights 4 days a week, I don't smoke (I do vape) and follow a pretty damn healthy diet in my opinion. Just wondering what my level of concern can be.
Edit: she immediately mentioned statins after I explained to her that I've been vegan and it's impossible for my dietary cholesterol to have affected the score, as I barely ingested any (the odd cheese here and there, I wasn't a "militant" vegan) up until the recent addition of seafood. Could the recent addition of fish that close to the test have perhaps spiked it and it will level off? This is such a confusing issue.
It's not nuanced. It is black and white. There is no connection. You are just confusing people by saying its nuanced and they are going to take statins "just in case".
Higher HDL, lower triglycerides.....even with high total cholesterol levels , DO NOT mean you always have a problem! Newer studies are out. Do your homework
