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let’s talk about the seven foods that

will lower your bad cholesterol the LDL

but I really need to clarify this bad

cholesterol because there’s so much

confusion every time I do my

um live show on Friday morning this

question comes up over and over and over

so I’m just going to do another video to

try to make it really really

simple and understandable so there’s two

types of LDL but if we just take a step

back and just talk about cholesterol

when you get your blood profile and it

says your total cholesterol you have to

realize that they’re not measuring this

cholesterol that’s floating down your

bloodstream because cholesterol can’t

float down the bloodstream because it’s

all fat soluble it doesn’t mix with

water

so when they say total cholesterol what

they really mean is all the cholesterol

in these different protein shuttles okay

and primarily I’m talking about HDL and

LVL there’s other shuttles but let’s

just keep this really simple so when you

see total cholesterol what you’re really

seeing is you’re just combining the

cholesterol in the LDL and the HDL

generally speaking and so when we talk

about HDL which is considered the good

cholesterol really what HDL is it’s the

cholesterol going from the arteries or

the cells back to the liver

and the LDL which people say is bad is

going from the liver

to the cells or the arteries so this

next part I’m going to talk about is

really important because

if you see your LDL

very high okay you’re going to probably

like be concerned but when you go to the

doctor and get your prescription to get

your cholesterol tested they nearly

always test LDL cholesterol okay they

don’t check anything else related to LDL

and there are two different measurements

for LDL and this is really really

important to understand because

the real villain

on cholesterol and heart problems is a

very specific type of LDL and it relates

to a test that you would have to ask for

it’s an advanced lipid profile test and

it stands for ldlp particle you’re

looking at the number of particles and

the size of the particles okay

now what is a particle well like I said

before it’s a carrier okay kind of

carries this cholesterol because it has

to have this protein little capsule to

transport it so there’s two particle

sizes of LDL there is the large buoyant

version which is pattern a now buoyant

means it floats okay it floats to the

surface so it’s these large fluffy

particles that are floating through the

bloodstream right they’re carrying

cholesterol then you have the small

dense particles okay those are the small

ones that have the ability to penetrate

the inside of the artery because the

inside of the artery is just like one

cell thickness it’s not very thick and

that’s where you have the problem okay

that’s the one that is pathogenic not

the large buoyant LDL it’s the small

dense LDL that’s the one you need to be

concerned about now a question I have

for you is which one do you think has

more cholesterol

if you guessed the large buoyant you are

correct so if you get your blood value

back and it says your LDL cholesterol is

high it doesn’t tell you anything about

the particles of what type of particles

you have more of it mainly tells you how

much cholesterol in fact there’s people

that have low LDL cholesterol and have

higher amounts of the small dense LVL

particle size and there are a lot of

people who have high LDL cholesterol and

have larger amounts of this large

buoyant pattern a type of LDL so anytime

you do your cholesterol be insistent

about getting this Advanced lipid

profile because it’s so badly important

it’ll give you the whole picture of

what’s going on now let’s talk a little

bit more about this small dense LDL okay

and you’re going to see it as a small s

and a small D and then LDL on your blood

profile now the first thing you know is

you’re going to see more of this profile

the small dense LDL when you have

metabolic syndrome when you have insulin

resistance when you have obesity when

you have diabetes you may also see this

pattern like I said before when you have

less or lowered amount of ldlc the

cholesterol which we’re not evaluating

the particles we’re just evaluating the

cholesterol inside of these particles

and the reason I’m trying to bring this

whole thing up is because there’s so

much connection between cholesterol and

heart problems especially if you don’t

understand these key points right here

you can be concerned atherogenic LDL is

the one that is the small dense version

okay that’s the one that’s involved in

glycation the word glycation basically

you’re you’re meshing a sugar with a

protein so you actually render that

protein

uh non-functional so it creates problems

with the proteins in your lining of your

arteries also this type of measurement

is involved with oxidation so that’s

another Factor that’s related to

inflammation free radical damage a

perfect storm for the invasion of

microbes and biofilms and plucking and a

whole Cascade of things but many times

in plaquing in your arteries you also

have these biofilms which are basically

microorganisms in certain calcium shells

and they tend to accumulate on these

rough edges in your arteries

caused by the oxidation or the

inflammation so small dense LDL is a

strong predictor by 3x of cardiovascular

disease now the other interesting thing

about this is that if you are on a

Statin drug

um your cholesterol will come down but

statin drugs don’t reduce this small

dense LDL in fact they might increase it

all right so now the question comes down

to how do we lower

very specifically the real culprit the

real bad LDL the small dense version

well there are some foods that you can

eat that will help you I’m going to put

the research down below that validates

this each food I’m going to talk about

has a significant lowering effect on the

small dense LDL okay number one extra

virgin olive oil now you have to make

sure you get the real extra virgin olive

oil because there’s so much fake stuff

out there but there is a really good

study that I’m going to put down below

that validates that now number two

avocados okay avocado can also reduce

your small dense LDL and then we have

fish oils I like to do cod liver oil but

you can use fish oils as well now the

omega-3 fatty acids that are doing this

you have both EPA and DHA apparently

it’s the EPA that has this lowering

effect the next food is pistachios okay

pistachios can also lower this small

dense LDL then we have dark chocolate

okay and of course the one that I would

recommend men is the one that without

sugar and then we have almonds almonds

have a lowering effect on the small

dense lipoprotein and lastly walnuts can

also help you with your bad cholesterol

now there’s a couple other really

interesting things about this topic

niacin the type of niacin that causes

that blushing response can very potently

switch from one particle size to the

other it can switch from the small dense

LDL to the large buoyant LDL that’s

pretty cool and also has a moderate

lowering effect of your LDL cholesterol

itself next thing you could do is

exercise exercise will also lower this

small dense LDL and another thing will

help too if you have a really stubborn

problem and that would be Tut cut Tucka

is a very specific type of bile salt

that helps eliminate excess cholesterol

you have to realize the regulation of

cholesterol in the body is controlled by

bile salts in fact bile salts are made

from cholesterol and so if you are

deficient in bile let’s say you have a

fatty liver or let’s say you don’t have

a gallbladder or just say that you’ve

been on bad foods that have made things

very very slow or sluggish within the

bile ducts that could be the reason why

your cholesterol is not coming down in

which case you want to start taking bile

salts especially for those that have a

genetic high cholesterol situation and

as a side note if you do have a genetic

problem with your cholesterol and you

want to do the ketogenic diet which I

highly recommend with fasting the thing

you want to do is not necessarily

completely go low fat you just want to

avoid the extra fat that a lot of people

take on the ketogenic diet which means

you don’t want to take the extra MCT oil

you don’t want to start consuming the

keto bomb treats filled with fat and

butter but you do want to increase the

fish oils and the fish that type of

thing because that is not going to

increase your problem and one last very

important point the worst thing to

consume would be sugar especially

fructose okay but sugar will tend to

worsen things for you and I’m also

including in that all the refined

carbohydrates as well now essentially on

the topic of LDL

I created a very interesting video

called the real reason why your arteries

are calcifying and turning into bone I

put it up right here check it out