What is best cholesterol ratio
HDL vs LDL: Cholesterol Ratio
> We have the good cholesterol, and the bad cholesterol, what's the difference?.> It's
a bit of a misconception the whole idea about HDL, is being the good cholesterol,
LDL being the bad cholesterol, it depends some people their probe their particles
are going to be more atherogenic because of other outside stressors, other things
that cause inflammation, so some people can have the same amount of what we
think of as being the bad cholesterol, in some purpo one person might be more
prone to those particles being atherogenic or plaque forming type
particles where somebody else with the same exact number, won't have a problem,
so there's a lot of other factors that we have to look at.> I always tell people
there's no such thing as good and bad cholesterol,
there's cholesterol.> You've just broken down everything that happens from every
doctor I've ever been to in my life, that always goes through good and bad cholesterol,
so then, how are people supposed to then take that?, because I
guarantee that everybody watching the show, has had a doctor's say to them, you
have good and bad cholesterol.> Again we're being very strict, there's no such thing as
good and bad cholesterol, there's only cholesterol, cholesterol doesn't travel
freely in the body, it's encased in what are called lipoprotein particles, which
is what Lisa was alluding to, so the reality is the same cholesterol if it's
in a particle that's taking it out of the body we'll say it's good, because
it's not getting into your arteries, if it's the same cholesterol in a particle
that's going into your arteries, we'll say it's bad because it's going into the
arteries where it can cause disease, so cholesterol is cholesterol, but how it
travels, how it's packaged, will determine where it's good or bad, and as Lisa said,
it's more than just a cholestero,l you could have cholesterol in these
particles, they're not getting into the arteries, doesn't affect you in any
negative way, so the art is how we get to the people prevent it from getting into
the artery walls, keep the cholesterol on its way out, and not let them get the
disease we can't concern about, this there's no disease high cholesterol,
the disease is atherosclerosis, the diseases how it affects your arteries.
