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hey guys Dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about how to read your cholesterol okay so  

what’s the function of cholesterol well it acts  as a cell membrane coding so every single cell  

in the body every single cell has a coating of  cholesterol so we need that all the outside of  

your skin has a cholesterol layer cholesterol  is needed to make hormones specifically stress  

hormones in certain other hormones for  anti-inflammation also it’s involved in  

brain activity and so when you don’t have enough  cholesterol it can affect your memory and that’s  

why one of the side effects of statin drugs which  lower the cholesterol is memory loss okay there’s  

many other functions but those are the top three  big functions okay cholesterol is also needed to  

make vitamin D it’s also needed to make bile B il  e to actually help you dissolve fats now what’s  

funny to me is that you know we talk about  good and bad cholesterol like HDL is called  

good cholesterol you can kind of think of the  H is like a healthy cholesterol and then LDL is  

supposed to the bad cholesterol like if there’s  two types of cholesterol but there’s really no  

such thing as two different types of cholesterol  it’s really one cholesterol that’s inside of both  

of these little guys this stands for high density  lipoproteins okay this is low-density lipoproteins  

do you notice I didn’t say cholesterol in order  to transport cholesterol which it doesn’t mix  

well with water or blood you have to put it in a  protein capsule and that’s what these are these  

are little tiny shuttles that deliver cholesterol  in certain directions in the body so let’s talk  

about like let’s talk about the LDL first so we  have this outer covering of this protein okay  

that surrounds the cholesterol and the purpose  of the LDL is to transport the cholesterol from  

your gut and liver to your intestinal tract and  then write to the blood so basically LDL takes  

the cholesterol from the liver in the blood  and then from the blood it goes to the rest  

of the tissues okay that’s what LDL does now HDL  takes the excess cholesterol that the LDL put in  

there and removes it and brings it back to the  liver and then the liver can actually dismantle  

it and take care of it so basically we have this  exchange between cholesterol coming out of the  

liver right here and cholesterol going into the  liver and we need that balance so when you see  

that you have high levels of bad cholesterol you  know doctors instantly give you a drug to shut it  

down but what I want to do is I’m going to teach  you what’s behind that like what’s causing that  

problem we want to use this as a little indicator  light to tell us that there’s some problem inside  

a body normally the LDL should be below 130 now in  2004 a group of 15 doctors panels of doctors that  

basically decided to lower the LDL to 102 even  as low as 70 for certain people that are risk  

factors okay so what they did is they adjusted  the numbers they changed the normal values and  

put 8 million people on cholesterol medication  overnight that’s what they did well then we  

find out and I put a link down there that a lot of  these doctors had ties to the drug companies yeah  

I know surprise right so unfortunately people are  freaked out about if that LDL is too high and so  

we’ll get more into that but basically that’s what  it does so LDL takes the cholesterol and drives it  

into the the blood and then out to the tissues  and then HDL takes the excess cleans it up and  

puts it back into the liver a normal HDL is in  a male body should be at 40 or greater okay and  

a female body at 47 or greater now let’s talk  first about let’s talk about triglycerides for  

a second what is triglycerides those basically  those are blood fats and basic 5 glycerides are  

converted sugars okay so triglycerides are used to  transport excess carbohydrates so if you have high  

triglycerides I know for a fact you have too much  sugar in your body because the hormone insulin is  

the converting hormone that makes triglycerides  high so we want about 150 or less that’s the value  

petrol glyceride so we don’t want them greater  than 150 it’s very easy to get to change this  

and it’s simply by getting rid of sugar out of the  diet now they also talked about total cholesterol  

to HDL ratios and all these different calculations  I don’t like that I like the triglyceride to HDL  

ratio the best this will give the best indicator  of your risk for heart disease and basically you  

just divide your total cholesterol by I’m sorry  total triglycerides by the HDL and that gives  

you the ratio and if it’s greater than 6 there’s  a problem if it’s 2 or less it’s good so we want  

it to be lower okay so that’s kind of a ratio  you can look at but really in reality there’s  

really no such thing as good or bad cholesterol it  just because you need cholesterol you cannot live  

without cholesterol you just want the exchange  there I would say about 99.99% of the time just  

by cleaning up the sugar the carbs the bread the  pasta the alcohol you can clean this up so fast  

and bring it back to normal ranges ok there are  genetic cholesterol issues but it’s very rare  

it’s not as common as you think but if you do have  a genetic tendency to have high cholesterol even  

if you had 350 this studies showed that there’s  still no risk for heart disease so the so for  

them to put you on statins right away is a big  mistake because there’s no study that shows that  

it’s actually going to create a problem for you  especially if these other things are working fine  

in fact I never ever look at total cholesterol  as anything I ignore the total cholesterol and  

because they did drop that down to 200 used to be  like 225 but even if it’s like 350 if it’s less  

than 350 I’m not going to worry about if these  other things are working fine and it’s very rare  

for it to go up if you’re off sugars usually it’ll  come right down the other point I want to make is  

that 75% of the cholesterol in your body right now  is made by your own body it’s made by your liver  

and the cells you liver makes 2,000 milligrams of  cholesterol every single day and the rest of the  

cells make a thousand milligrams and only 25% of  the cholesterol in your body comes from diet okay  

the rest comes from your body making it so that  might shift your viewpoint because if you eat less  

your body makes more if you eat more your body  makes less because we have this feedback mechanism  

so I just want to kind of cover some of these  basics and kind of give you the simplicity of what  

it is so you’re not freaked out about it but for  people to be put on medication when they should be  

working like this is what most people do if it’s  high they go in a low-fat diet it’s usually high  

carbs they go on medication to go and exercise  that they never cut out the sugar okay all right  

so go ahead and apply this information make  it put your comments below thanks for watching