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Marcus Hawkins

Marcus Hawkins

New Zealand GP and author of 'The Food Fix'; advocates therapeutic carbohydrate reduction for metabolic disease reversal

Jun 12, 2026

31:44
you say
31:45
i would say that there's no real well there's probably no real issue there but one has to look at a That's a bit of a blanket statement, but trying to basically say, hold on a minute, let's just look at the information first rather than get panicked about it.
32:00
So, I mean, really what you're looking at, the metabolic health side of things, right? You kind of...
32:05
should ignore the total cholesterol, unless it's above 10, perhaps, arguably.
32:09
And that's just a single statement.
32:11
But more importantly, what you're looking at is your triglycerides and your HDL, high-density lipoprotein.
32:17
Because you take the ratio of triglycerides to HDL, and that gives you a really good idea of how you are metabolically in terms of insulin resistance and potential risk for heart disease.

11 MINS LATER

43:49
Because I think it's a microcosm of the entirety of what we've got wrong in humanity, not just from a food aspect, but also from a social demographic aspect

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