Why LDL is Not Enough: The Tests Your Doctor is Missing to Assess Your Risk of Heart Disease | Know Your Numbers

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

View the Show Notes For This Episode

Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman

Get Ad-free Episodes & Dr. Hyman+ Audio Exclusives

Heart disease is the world's leading cause of death. For years, the diet-heart hypothesis, which centers on high cholesterol as the primary culprit, has dominated the medical discourse. But now, we're beginning to appreciate the complexity and nuance of how the outer workings of our environment influence the inner workings of our physiology and risk for heart disease.

In today’s episode of a new series I’m calling Know Your Numbers, I deep dive into the Functional Medicine approach to assessing cardiovascular risk and why this is key to preventing and, in some cases, reversing cardiovascular disease.

You can test your cardiovascular risk with Function Health, a company I co-founded. It has been a lifelong dream for me. Function is the first-ever membership that includes 100+ lab tests and personalized insights from globally renowned doctors based on your results. Join Function at FunctionHealth.com.

This episode is brought to you by AG1, Sweetgreen, and OPEN.

Get your daily serving of vitamins, minerals, adaptogens, and more with AG1. Head to DrinkAG1.com/Hyman and get 10 FREE travel packs + a FREE Welcome Kit with your first order.

We could use more Sweetgreens in the world. So check out your nearest Sweetgreen or go to Sweetgreen.com to learn more.

Take your meditation practice further and start your FREE 30-day trial of Open by visiting withopen.com/MARK today.

Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Prevalence of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks (9:38 / 8:08)
Why conventional medicine misses the mark in assessing and treating cardiovascular disease risk and “high” cholesterol (10:50 / 9:20)
The testing you should be getting to assess cardiovascular risk (28:23 / 26:53)
The major root causes of heart disease (46:38 / 44:10)
Cholesterol: What is it and how is it related to heart disease? (47:20 / 44:52)
Insulin resistance and heart disease (55:09 / 52:50)
Total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL cholesterol, and other relevant biomarkers (58:12 / 55:44)
Root causes of suboptimal biomarkers (1:28:05 / 1:25:37)
Additional diagnostic testing (1:31:04 / 1:28:36)
Diet, lifestyle, and supplements for reducing cardiovascular risk (1:37:30 / 1:35:02)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.0	Primarily today, the major root cause aside from some of these inherited genetic lipid disorders for heart disease.
0:09.0	And that's insulin resistance, pre-diabetes and diabetes.
0:12.0	And this requires a more nuanced personalized diet and lifestyle treatment.
0:16.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark here.
0:19.0	The supplement aisle at the grocery store can feel overwhelming with so many options it's hard to navigate
0:24.2	and choose the right product for you. And that's why I love AG1. AG1 takes all the guesswork
0:29.2	out of trying to combine the right supplements, it provides prebiotics, probiotics, digestive enzymes and other whole
0:34.2	food nutrients all in one easy scoop. A. G1 covers your nutritional bases while providing
0:39.5	comprehensive brain gut and immune system support. Plus I love how easy AG1 makes it to get the nutrients my body needs to thrive.
0:46.0	It's as easy as adding one scoop to a glass of water.
0:49.0	Try AG1 now and you'll get a free welcome kit that includes a shaker bottle canister and a
0:52.9	metal scoop along with 10 free travel packs with your first purchase just go to
0:56.4	drink a g1.com for slash hymen one of the big problems with their food system is
1:00.5	that most Americans are getting their vegetables in the form of French fries and
1:04.0	ketchup.
1:05.0	And it's pretty easy to see why.
1:06.6	Just pull out your phone and look at a few lunch menus.
1:09.0	That's why I'm excited to talk about my friends at Sweet Green.
1:11.6	They make it easy to fill your plate with real foods like plenty of
1:14.4	cruciferous vegetables which are rich in fiber and phytopnutrients or roasted nuts which are high in
1:18.4	antioxidants and may help lower cholesterol. Sweet Green also uses one of my favorite sources of healthy fats,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Mark Hyman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Mark Hyman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.