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#211 - Understanding your cholesterol panel & metabolic health blood tests | Dr. Robert Lustig & Dr. Casey Means - (Replay)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Differences Between Large Bouncy and Small Dense LDL

The leading cause of hypothyroid in the United States is Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. If you're hypothyroid, you need to fix your thyroid levels before you can interpret your lipid tests. So large buoyant, small dense LDL, that's where we are. And so that's why all these doctors who just read across and say, oh, yes, hi, me, need to stand, you know,. They don't understand what it is they're looking at.

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