Hey everyone, welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones,

and on this podcast, we go in depth with leading experts to understand and improve your

health and well-being. Today, I'm talking with the Dr. Ralph Esposito, all about lipid testing,

because heart disease is the number one killer.

I wanted answers around your typical cholesterol test, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, APOB. What does it mean?

And what does that more advanced testing show? Dr. Ralph is a naturopathic physician, acupuncturist,

and functional medicine practitioner.

He's an author, speaker, and clinical advisor with focus in men's health and longevity medicine.

It was an absolute pleasure talking with him today as he's my go-to doctor when I have

cholesterol or lipid questions.

Here's a clip from today's conversation. When I look at the heart disease, I look at it as a whole in terms of vascular disease. So not just your heart, right, but you have to look at strokes and aneurysms and all of these things, they do matter. So people worry about heart attacks and heart disease, they think just the heart, they kind of forget about the brain, just a big big deal, and they forget about the kidneys. So all of these things are related. So the root cause

is all of the above. But when you actually kind of look down to it, cholesterol, or I would say

lipoprotein particles, I actually play a big role in that. I kind of look at it in the context

of your inflammatory markers as well and what is the

fuel, what is the fire, what is the match, how do we kind of cool things down? All of those things

really play a role. So it's time, it's inflammation, and as controversial as many people

think this is, it's also cholesterol or lipid particles.

That's just a small taste of the amazing show we have for you today.

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