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Physiology Friday: [Cholesterol] How to Read Bloodwork for Lipids, Triglycerides, and Fatty Acids w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of Barbell Shrugged you will learn:

  1. What are lipids
  2. What is cholesterol
  3. The difference between HDL and LDL cholesterol
  4. Why there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" cholesterol
  5. What are the bloodwork numbers for optimal cholesterol
  6. What is the perfect ratio of HDL and LDL
  7. Ratios for Triglycerides to HDL for optimal health
  8. Mechanisms for regulating cholesterol in the liver
  9. Why saturated fats are not bad and how your body uses them
  10. Cholesterols role in testosterone production

To learn more, please go to https://rapidhealthoptimization.com

Connect with our guests:

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Dan Garner on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug Family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back. Dan Garner is going to be digging into your lipid panels, cholesterol triglycerides, and everything that you can do to go and optimize them. And actually how to read them. There's a whole bunch of ratios and stuff inside there and nobody ever tells you about. That's what you're going to learn about on today's show. As always, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com.

0:21.8

That is where you can see Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Gallupon doing a free lab lifestyle

0:26.0

and performance analysis.

0:27.9

And you can access that free report over at rapidhealthreport.com.

0:31.6

Friends, let's get into the show.

0:35.2

Welcome to Barbell Shrug.

0:36.5

I'm Anders Warner, Doug Larson. Dan Garner, today on Barbell Shrugged.

0:41.4

We're talking about lipids and what you can see in your blood work when you get your standard

0:45.5

yearly blood work and what does it actually all mean. Bros. Before we get into all of this,

0:51.9

I got to go talk to the people real quick. Everybody that has come from this show and has scheduled a call to talk to me

0:58.9

about everything that they have going on in their health and performance,

1:02.4

I just want to say thank you to all of you guys.

1:05.2

It has been like a whole year since we launched Rapid.

1:10.0

And the fact that every week we get to see like numbers of downloads and people that listen to the show,

1:16.6

but they're just a number, to actually put a face to all the names and hear everything that

1:23.2

we're actually able to help you guys with through the show and the content that we put out.

1:27.3

Many times this is just like four dudes hanging out on Zoom talking about things that we love

1:31.8

and the fact that you guys actually digest this stuff and it makes a big impact on your life

1:35.6

I'm beyond grateful for for all of you that have have come and talk to me and schedule the call

1:42.6

and just all these conversations go so well.

1:46.2

And I appreciate everybody that, one, just tunes in.

1:49.4

Two, if you've scheduled a call and been interested in our programs over the years,

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