In this enlightening conversation, Elizabeth Boham, a physician and nutritionist at The UltraWellness Center, sheds light on cholesterol testing. She argues that traditional lipid profiles fall short by overlooking crucial details like particle size and number. Boham emphasizes the necessity for advanced cholesterol tests that provide a fuller health picture and discusses how diet influences heart health. Listeners are encouraged to take a proactive role in their health by seeking personalized assessments and understanding the implications of different cholesterol particles.
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Get the Right Cholesterol Test
Get a cholesterol particle test, not just a standard lipid panel.
Ask your doctor specifically for particle size testing like NMR or CardioIQ.
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Cholesterol: Dirt and Dump Trucks
Standard lipid panels only reveal cholesterol amount (like dirt), not particle size or number (like dump trucks).
Small cholesterol particles are more dangerous than large ones, like small dump trucks causing more damage.
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Golf Balls vs. Beach Balls
Cholesterol tests measure weight, not particle number.
Small, dense LDL particles (like golf balls) are more dangerous than large, fluffy ones (like beach balls).
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This ninth edition of the Textbook of Family Medicine, edited by Drs. Robert E. Rakel and David P. Rakel, is a leading resource for family physicians. It includes evidence-based, practical information to optimize patient care and prepare for the ABFM exam. The book covers a wide range of topics, including patient-centered medical homes, psychosocial influences on health, care of the elderly and dying patients, preventive health care, and various clinical problems. It features a clean, quick-reference layout and includes 'Evidence vs. Harm' icons, 'Best Evidence Recommendations,' and a list of useful clinical websites.
The Cholesterol Test You Should Be Getting | This episode is brought to you by Belcampo
Many of us have been told by our doctors that we need to lower our cholesterol levels. But what does that mean, exactly? And do standard lipid profiles really tell us the full story about what is going on with our cholesterol?
In this minisode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the importance of cholesterol particle testing. They explore why other cholesterol tests are outdated and why information about particle size and particle number is the only way to know what’s really going on with your cholesterol.
Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices Functional Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing, she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the Functional Medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.
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