For the past 60 years, the medical community has been focusing on lowering total cholesterol

and LDL cholesterol while ignoring triglycerides.

In today's show, we're going to talk about the importance of triglyceride reduction.

This is an independent biomarker that is linked with cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis,

and even sudden death.

And I feel like not enough people care about their triglyceride levels or know about their

levels and are unaware about which foods increase their triglycerides yet they're scared

of red meat or saturated fat for fear that it will raise their cholesterol and LDL cholesterol,

but have no problem eating the high carb low fat foods known to increase triglyceride

levels.

Sam, by the way, who has been our videographer since 2015, he was just on a trip and texted

me a picture last week about the bagels, the wheat fins, the pretzels, the cookies, and

the cliff bars and all the high carb foods, low fat foods, that people are eating, thinking

that they're helping their cardiovascular risk, that they're lowering their cardiovascular

risk because they're not having the saturated fat, the evil red meat and all the like.

But we now know that these foods that are rampant in our society, I was on a camping

trip with some friends and they brought Doritos, they brought the cookies that have all the

cottonseed oil in them, but they did not want to have any of the red meat that we are bringing.

They're scared of saturated fat.

So it seems that these policies are really, they take a long time to unlearn, and so I

think it's important to harp and really talk about the importance of metabolic health

because high triglycerides and their associated remnant cholesterol, lipoproteins are linked

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