What's the best way to stay healthy in the face of so much conflicting nutrition information?

Well ideally you would go to the source the gold standard the pure viewed medical literature and read through the stacks of the latest medical journals

But who's got time for that? I do

Welcome to the nutrition facts podcast. I'm your host Dr. Michael Greger

Today I answer common questions like what's the ideal LDL cholesterol level and

What's going on when someone to eat?

Healthily but their blood sugars are still out of control

Ideal LDL depends on whether or not you have been diagnosed with heart disease if you have not a

Lifetime LDL well actually a lifetime LDL under

100 should protect you from heart disease however if you didn't figure this out into middle age and you're in your LDL's

Too high and you're trying to get it down to prevent heart disease

Then 70 would be the target if you already have heart disease

Then the target

Draw in terms of secondary prevention from in the second heart attack drops down to like 30 to 50 or basically as low as possible

So wasting could there be a harm of having cholesterol too low?

We didn't know until PCSK 9 inhibitors came out

We have these new biologic injectable drugs which can drop people's cholesterol

LDL cholesterol into these single digits

Still not seeing any problems with hormone manufacturer like testosterone, estrogen or

Any other issues that have piled on so only benefit as you go lower lower

But we don't most people should not need drugs to get their LDL down

They just need to cut out or cut down on the three things that increase ones cholesterol and that is

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