The LDL Cholesterol Story is Falling Apart: Focus on THIS Instead

High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS

Mike Mutzel

Fasting, Nutrition, Autophagy, Ketogenic, Keto, Health & Fitness, Ketodiet, Medicine

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A new study finds poor metabolic health and low HDL is a greater predictor of coronary artery calcium than LDL cholesterol.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro
0:30 LDL does not correlate with the degree of coronary artery plaque.
1:02 HDL is protective against coronary artery disease and plaquing.
2:10 Triglycerides correlate with diabetes, coronary artery disease and plaquing.
3:45 HDL size is highly predictive.
5:15 LDL, vLDL, and IDL had no strong association.
8:00 LDL may be lower with prediabetes and diabetes, reflecting imbalance.
12:10 HDL is increased by lifestyle.
13:00 Plaquing is more common in diabetics.
15:47 High triglycerides increase odds of metabolic disease by 100%.
18:00 The smaller HDL particles become, the less protective they are.
19:13 Coronary artery calcium is associated with HDL size, concentration and composition.
21:20 High HDL with low triglycerides is linked with better metabolic health.
23:10 Exercise increases the size and number of your protective HDL.

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0:00.0	A new study found that LDL cholesterol does not strongly correlate with the degree of coronary
0:05.4	artery atherosclerosis.
0:07.7	This is a very important study.
0:09.1	I'm going to talk slow intentionally so that no messages get lost in translation.
0:14.1	This is a study that was just published in the International Journal of Cardiology involving
0:18.2	5,000 patients that were normal glycemic, pre-diabetic,
0:22.7	or diabetic. And that was the first part of this study. They wanted to investigate and see
0:27.2	whether the degree of diabetes or prediabetes correlated with coronary artery calcium scores.
0:33.5	They also then wanted to see which diabetic-related biomarkers and lipid-related biomarkers were linked with the degree of coronary artery calcium scores.
0:43.3	So this is really fascinating.
0:44.3	Now, what they found is that LDL cholesterol was not correlated with the degree of coronary artery calcium placking.
0:53.3	Now, this is really important because, again,
0:56.4	most doctors like to monomoneically focus on lowering your LDL cholesterol.
1:01.3	But it turned out that HDL cholesterol, the so-called good cholesterol,
1:06.1	that is increased when you exercise, when you have a low-carb diet,
1:09.5	when you have healthier fats and less
1:11.7	processed sugar in your diet, your HCL generally increases. H.D.L, specifically the larger
1:17.9	buoyant H.D.L. were more protective against both metabolic disease, as well as the degree
1:25.1	of coronary artery placking. And again, they used a CT scan to look at the degree of severity and calcification in the
1:33.1	coronary arteries, including the left anterior descending coronary artery, the one that is known
1:38.5	as the widowmaker and highly susceptible to becoming plaqued and atherosclerotic and, again,
1:43.9	is correlated with major adverse cardiovascular
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