High-density lipoprotein

Cholesterol is transported through the body, right? There's LDL.

There's a, I believe LDL, HDL as well, high density.

And then there's one in the middle.

I'm not sure if it's intermediate or medium.

Cholesterol is actually a fairly poor indicator.

Your cholesterol numbers is a poor indicator of where things are going.

We want to have higher HDLs, obviously, because those are healthy for us.

And then even your triglyceride levels have a stronger correlation with metabolic function that's going on as well.

And then there's another one called high sensitivity C-reactive protein.

Your cholesterol numbers is a poor indicator of where things are going.

We want to have higher HDLs, obviously, because those are healthy for us.

And then even your triglyceride levels have a stronger correlation with metabolic function that's going on as well.

And then there's another one called high sensitivity C-reactive protein.

I mean, my genetics, I tend to have a really low HDL and a high LDL.

We used to think that, in my limited experience, that AI- elevated or high HDLs was protective.

Is that no longer thought? Process.

So the thing is, we've kind of moved away from the quantity of HDL.

Well, no, I'm, I'm a patient as an elevated lipoprotein little A, so.

Well, my 21-year-old, uh, for some reason, they did a cholesterol level on him, and his cholesterol panel didn't look great.

And he was kind of freaking out, and I, I told him, I'm like, "You know, obviously, we don't have a lot of heart disease in our family, a couple heart attacks, but, but we have this weird cholesterol thing where we have low HDLs, high, high, higher LDLs." Now, at 21, m- maybe you'd put people on statins.

I don't know.

cancer diagnosis,

65 pounds loss, blood pressure down, A1C at 4.7, thyroid nodules shrunk two years in a row, HDL triglycerides ratio nearly one, asthma gone, and I started running at age 58.

I love it, Mary.

Good job, Mary Jo.

My labs are great.

A1C 5.2, triglycerides are 66.

HDL 50 C peptide, I think 2.4. I'm a non-shift nurse, so it seems difficult to get my rhythm together.

I

Those factors still belong in the evaluation.

They brought back LDL and non-HDL cholesterol treatment goals.

They expanded the use of coronary artery calcium scans when the treatment decision is unclear.

They recommend measuring LP little a at least once in adulthood.

The other may need many smaller trucks.

Same amount of cholesterol, different number of particles.

HDL cholesterol is considered the good cholesterol because it helps move cholesterol out of the tissues back to the liver.

But higher HDL doesn't automatically mean you're protected.

One of my favorites was from, I want to say, 78.

And it literally was one of the first examples of the lipid energy model we would later publish on where they isolated lipoproteins solution it wasn't even it wasn't an in vivo or anything like that and they actually observed that if you added these VLDLs with HDLs and then applied lipoprotein lipase they changed their milieu right there including HDL the VLDLs got smaller their components that got released got picked up by the HDL such that you can see the HDLs increase.

I'm like, it's right there.

The triad was right there in the solution.