Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

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20 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube lecture by Aaron Hartman, MD explaining how absorbed cholesterol is transported to the liver, how hepatic feedback reduces endogenous uptake when dietary cholesterol arrives, and the pharmacologic strategy of blocking intestinal cholesterol absorption—noting the commonly prescribed inhibitor (brand name Zetia).

The half life of a column. Micron is in minutes, plasma residence time, a couple of hours. Absorbed cholesterol gets brought right to the liver. Thank you. The liver says, I got all the cholesterol I need now. But what if I block the absorption of cholesterol in the gut? And there are a few ways of doing it. Nowadays, the most potent way is to prescribe a drug that inhibits cholesterol absorption. Instead of my brand name, Zetia.

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