What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer?

Or diabetes? Or heart disease? Or high blood pressure?

This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life.

Well, the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet.

In other words, one centered around whole plant foods.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today on the podcast, I answer a wide range of your questions on a recent episode of Facebook Live.

A few of our topics include the difference between the whole food plant-based diet and

vegan diets and how to motivate yourself to reduce your intake of meat. Enjoy!

Dr. Michael Greger, coming to your live from my treadmill as I do every month.

And let us go to the questions and see what you have for me today.

All right, Fernandez says, what is the ideal LDL?

Ideal LDL depends on whether or not you have been diagnosed with heart disease. If you have not,

a lifetime LDL, well, actually a lifetime LDL under 100.

I should protect you from heart disease. However, if you didn't figure the sound to middle age and

you're in your LDL's too high and you're trying to get it down to prevent heart disease,

then 70 would be the target. If you already have heart disease, then the target

draw in terms of secondary prevention from in the second heart attack drops down to like 30 to 50

or basically as low as possible. So, wasting, could there be a harm of having cholesterol too low?

We didn't know until PCSK 9 inhibitors came out. We have these new biologic injectable drugs,

which can drop people's cholesterol, LDL cholesterol into these single digits.

Still not seeing any problems with hormone manufacturer like testosterone, estrogen,

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