Does LDL Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease?

The Nutrition Science Podcast

Dr. Adrian Chavez

Science, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today is part 1 of a 2 part series on lowering LDL cholesterol. In this episode we are going to cover what LDL cholesterol is and how it might contribute to the development of heart disease. In the next episode we are going to discuss nutrition and lifestyle strategies for lowering LDL. In this episode we cover: What cholesterol is and how it functions in our bodyWhy cholesterol has been thought to cause heart diseaseThe truth about cholesterol and heart disease The right choleste...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.
0:11.0	How's it going, everyone?
0:12.3	Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.
0:15.6	I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be discussing how to lower your LDO cholesterol with
0:23.4	nutrition and lifestyle strategies. And we're actually not going to be discussing that today.
0:28.4	Today is going to be the first of a two-part series where we're going to discuss this topic.
0:34.6	But today, first, I want to explain what LDL cholesterol is and why it's
0:40.1	important for the progression of heart disease, because there's a lot of misinformation online about
0:46.1	this topic, and I'd like to explain it in the most basic sense, because I think education helps
0:51.9	to combat misinformation. So if you understand what's actually going on,
0:56.0	it helps you to see through all of these misleading claims around cholesterol or LDL cholesterol
1:01.9	or anything related to cholesterol. So that's what we're going to talk about today is we're going
1:07.4	to discuss the role of cholesterol in our health and in disease.
1:12.6	And then in part two of this two-part series, we're going to discuss the actual nutrition
1:18.0	and lifestyle strategies that you can use in order to reduce your cholesterol or reduce
1:24.3	your cholesterol-associated cardiovascular disease risk.
1:28.5	Sometimes I'd like to say that because the goal isn't just necessarily to lower our
1:32.5	cholesterol as much as possible.
1:34.3	It's to ensure that our cholesterol levels are not presenting as a risk factor for heart disease
1:41.2	that's going to increase our risk of developing that over time. So that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode. Really quickly, if you're someone who enjoys the podcast and you've been listening to it, you get value out of it, and you haven't left a review already, I would really appreciate it if you go to Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to your podcast and leave a review. That's what helps boost the show in
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2:07.9	message, get this information, get evidence-based nutrition out to more people. And a lot of you
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