Why Your Cholesterol Is High: The Missing Piece You Need To Know
Here are the key aspects of understanding your LDL levels and why higher is better with age. Due to all of the requests from …
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April 3, 2025
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"Harmony in Every Heartbeat
Here are the key aspects of understanding your LDL levels and why higher is better with age. Due to all of the requests from …
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I personally think that one of the biggest cause of heart attacks, dementia, and other diseases is caused by the “bad” bacteria in the mouth. This idea has been around for quite awhile, but, this is what I think. You can chew on a WHOLE CLOVE and this kill the bad bacteria in your mouth, but, will not kill the good bacteria in your mouth.
This is a really interesting lesson. I was looking at a study done in Sweden back in the 1990’s. They took 44,000 people to see how many could reach the age of 100. Only about 2200 people made it to 100 years of age. What these 2200 people had in common was a high total cholesterol, and a high iron content in their blood. Also, there was indication that they consumed a degree of alcoholic beverages. 80 % of those that reached the age of 100 were women.
Vow!
the part that your scatter plot correlated lower LDL with higher glucose is ready to grasp snapshot for us to put the study done for Oreo cookies and LDL into perspective
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38276308/
here Nick Norwiz talks about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2htmeR6e4
your scatter plot does the job of pages and pages in a picture
Well done, Doctor!
Please make more videos about cholesterol 😁
Ok, but at age 67, I've been clean keto for 5 years and LDL has continued to rise. I'm now at 450+! I have a CAC scheduled. And I'm really scared.
love your worksheet, much better way to understand data even if they are not thousands
WOW! Thank you!
Great presentation! You have again increased my understanding. Progressing down the path of beating the horse until it's thoroughly dead.
How can we get a printout of the data you spoke of to give to our doctor? Thank you for the talk and education.
Great presentation doc! Keep these videos coming!
Thank you for making such a clear and extremely informative video on high cholesterol. Have never seen a better video on this subject. Superb! I'll be sharing this one.
Another wonderfully clear presentation. Thanks for your diligence and the thought you provide.
I think CAC score is useful but it does miss out on soft plaque. Apparently most heart attack patients have less than 50% occlusion of the arteries. There is also the school of thought that if you have had some artery plaque and made changes to diet etc to reduce triglycerides that the soft plaque that has calcified is now stable. So only new sites of calcium formation are a troubling factor ?
I massively increased omega 3 and decreased omega6, to get it close to 1:1. My ldl went from 4.4 to 2.2.
I think we have to keep in mind not enough, or too much of a good thing is a bad thing
In my neck of the woods, doctors are bound by their college to apply the Framingham risk calculator to determine when they must recommend patients to go on statins. Period. If they don’t I believe they might be reprimanded. They are told not to take account CAC score as officially the college does not know how to interpret it. Outside Framingham, no discussion is possible.
Statins a crime against humanity? Are we there yet?
Hi Dr. Karl, great content as usual(missed seeing your videos lately)….wouldn't mind your opinion on Dr. Mercola's recent interview with Georgi Dinkov
I declined statins and was prescribed Pralvent 150mg. Does this stuff adversely effects hormones?
DOC, YOU'RE DOING GREAT & THANK YOU FOR MAKING LEARNING FUN!!!!!!
Well done and informative, as usual. Thank you for all the hard work you do to make these videos. It's so helpful!
Please tell me if a person has had a stroke, statin pills should be taken or not
Happy to see you back…missed ya.
Great advice thank you
Harry here: Oh man big believer in this one. Great video
My dietician recommends I eat 180-240 g of "healthy carbs" a day. I kicked her to the curb.
At the age of 28 I was told by an obese doctor that my blood pressire was too low (90/60) and my cholesterol was too high. I told him what I thought about his advice and never went to a doctor again. Have eaten high fat carnivore since 1983 and you would be amazed at how good I feel at 54!
It's just amazing how the masses are deceived. The Triglyceride/HDL relationship to Pattern "A" Pattern "B" LDL particle size is also an interesting metric. This is a very complex topic with many interacting variables thanks for digging into it Dr.
After taking statins for 7-8 years, my father developed type 2 diabetes then type 3 diabetes (dementia) then had a stroke and died. These are facts. Know what mediation you take and do it on informed consent. Statins may help on short term but I'm not that confident on long term.
Great clip Dr as always, love your content.