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#21 - Tom Dayspring, M.D., FACP, FNLA – Part II of V: Lipid metrics, lipid measurements, and cholesterol regulation

The Peter Attia Drive

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What Makes a Lypo Protein Bouncy

The density of a sec particle is going to be related to its lipid content. Lypo proteins are big monsters that are delivering triglus rides, but have a lot of phosphor lipids. They have some proteins, but they have so much lipids they float. And as they lose the lipids, they become smaller. You do not go from a cile micron to a v l d l, to an ide l,. to an l d l to an h d l. It's three separate lineages i just described. But in size they loosely track as the smaller they get, the more concentrated protein within every category of lypo proteins.

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