Two speakers challenge the idea that cholesterol directly causes heart disease, pointing instead to markers like Lp-PLA2, triglycerides, CRP, and homocysteine as better predictors of arterial damage. They note that long-lived people often have higher cholesterol and suggest oxidized cholesterol matters more than cholesterol levels alone.
Well, you have to work with your doctor for trying to treat cholesterol. But you also.
Should ask yourself why.
Are you treating cholesterol?
Because if cholesterol causes heart.
Disease, it doesn't according to all the stuff in my books. Then if it's causing problems, an enzyme called Lp PLA2.
Which is created when.
The lining of your arteries is damaged by cholesterol, if that's really what's damaging it, if that's high, maybe you should try and change your cholesterol and see if it goes down. That's a direct marker of whether the cholesterol theory is working for you or not. There's also your triglycerides, your HDL levels, and if you look at your CRP level levels and your homocysteine levels, those.
Are the lab tests that matter. That's what I track.
Way more than cholesterol. Oh, and the people who are longest.
Lived have.
Higher cholesterol than people who die early. Cholesterol is protective as long as it's not oxidized.
