Ep47 - part 2 of 2 - Arthur Agatston MD - South Beach Cardio Special #LDL Demystified
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Part 2 of a highly informative discussion with the Arthur Agatston MD! You will know Dr. Agatston from his massively bestselling series of "South Beach" diet books - his new book featuring Keto, Kraft and CAC wizardly is available to pre-order here: Keto-Friendly South Beach
Here in part 2 he covers more case histories of special patients:
- isolated high Lp(a)
- classic familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
- other genetic susceptibilities
We close with a discussion on how native LDL cholesterol is not at fault; rather the problem is that which causes poor little LDL particles to get caught up in the mess!
PART 1 IS AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmRBjhBqrs
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| 0:00.0 | I think Arthur, to be honest, there's a huge unity of voices out there from orthodox sources |
| 0:06.5 | trying to say that LDL is inherently toxic. |
| 0:09.7 | No. |
| 0:10.7 | This is really a challenge. |
| 0:14.0 | And those studies, you know, going back to begin Bill Castellian in Framingham, the distribution of cholesterol, of LDL in people from Framingham who had heart |
| 0:25.6 | attacks versus not, it was essentially the same. |
| 0:28.5 | Yes. |
| 0:28.8 | They overlap. |
| 0:34.3 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm your host, Ibar Cummins. |
| 0:40.3 | We're supported by the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity, |
| 0:44.3 | which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. |
| 0:48.3 | So know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. |
| 0:53.3 | Everything you need to know will be right here. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi LP Little A, which is here. |
| 1:03.0 | So this is one of the primary genetic problems. |
| 1:07.0 | And here is a patient at At 52, he came. |
| 1:12.6 | He was like a friend of a friend of a friend |
| 1:15.6 | because his brother was skiing in Colorado. |
| 1:19.6 | He was one or two years older than him, and he died suddenly. |
| 1:23.6 | He was thin, healthy, but he did know of a high LP, little A, you know, not treated. |
| 1:32.3 | So he came to me, we did his calcium score. |
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