#07 - Deep Dive: Lp(a) — what every doctor, and the 10-20% of the population at risk, needs to know
The Peter Attia Drive
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Do You Know the Molecular Weight of L P Little a Cholesterol?
The best test we have is the l p little a particle number. A little a has lots of licine, which binds oxidized moieties. O b does not contain much licene at all. And so if you think about your rolling around as an l d l now you got a tail thrown on you,. The whole calculation goes to hell in a hand basket. You can't actually calculate the molecular you don't know the molecular weight.
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