Hello everyone. In this podcast, I'm honored to chat with Dr. Ronald Kraus. Dr. Kraus received his medical degree from Harvard University.

He is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, indecontology and metabolism, and he's one of the top scientists in his field of cardiovascular research.

Ron is really one of the pioneering scientists that changed the way we all think about cholesterol and saturated fat.

He developed an assay that allows the quantification of low-density, light-proprotein particle size and concentration known to the wider world as LDL cholesterol based on a technique which determines the size of the particle based on physics, meaning the speed at which it flies through the air.

Ron and I discuss what HDL and LDL cholesterol are, what they do in the body, and how they play a role in heart disease.

We talk about what small, dense LDL particles are, how they form, what effect eating saturated fat versus refined carbohydrates have on LDL particle size and heart disease risk, and more generally what the main risk factors for heart disease are.

Ron also talks about the good, bad, and the ugly of LDL lowering cholesterol drugs known as statins and much more.

This episode is loaded with so much good information I literally could sit and talk to Ron for hours.

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Welcome to another episode of the Foundmyfitness podcast. I'm sitting here with Dr. Ronald Kraus who is the director of the Atharose Grosses Center at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and he's an adjunct professor at University of California San Francisco.

I personally think of Dr. Kraus as one of the scientists that played a very important role in changing the way we think about cholesterol.

The way that he was able to do that was developing an assay that is able to differentiate between the different sizes of lipoproteins that carry cholesterol.

Now let Ron talk a little bit more about that but thanks for being here Ron.

Well I'm delighted to have this conversation.

So for decades we have we meaning you know most most people have this idea in our minds that there are two types of cholesterol.

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