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On this episode, we are going to be covering part two in the two-part series on how to lower your LDL cholesterol.

In part one of this series, we talked about what exactly LDL cholesterol is,

why it's important, and how it can potentially contribute to the development of heart disease.

So if you haven't listened to that episode,

highly recommend going back and listening to that before going further into this episode.

But today, what we're going to talk about is nutritional strategies going back and listening to that before going further into this episode.

But today, what we're going to talk about is nutritional strategies for lowering your LDL cholesterol, or specifically as we discussed in the episode last week, on how to lower

your APOB containing lipoprotein.

So if you didn't listen to that episode, you're going to have

no idea what I'm talking about, most likely, unless you're well versed on this topic. But that's what

we're going to be discussing today is how, from a nutrition standpoint, can we make changes so that we

lower our LDL cholesterol or our APOB level so we can lower our cholesterol associated cardiovascular risk.

All right.

So let's go ahead and get into it.

And I'm going to start by talking about the overarching factors that make the biggest difference.

And these are related to overall dietary pattern.

And these are the things that are going to drive the largest changes in LDL cholesterol.

So studies have shown that when you put all of the pieces together that we're going to discuss today,

you can lower your LDL cholesterol by 20 to 40 percent in some cases,

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