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Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine

The Moral Imagination

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Is Your HDL Better Than Your Throat?

The incidence of diabetes, heart disease and metabolic diseases is rising in westernized countries. It's hard to find populations these days that are not exposed to the Western diet or processed food. When people want one sort of quick and dirty test to tell if they're likely metabolically healthier or not, I usually point them to the triglycerides divided by the HDL ratio.

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