Three flagged numbers on my lipid panel — and the four numbers on the same panel that prove I’m in excellent metabolic health. This is my actual lipid panel, drawn at age 54. Total cholesterol: 240 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 200 cutoff. LDL cholesterol: 149 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 100 target. Non-HDL cholesterol: 167 mg/dL.Continue reading “The Truth about Cholesterol”
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What to do…
If you’ve read Parts 1 and 2 of this series, you know two things: Sugar is not “empty calories.” It’s a multi-organ stress test that hijacks your reward system, overwhelms your small intestine, drives fatty liver disease, generates uric acid, breaks your gut barrier, and underlies most of the chronic disease burden in the developedContinue reading “What to do…”
