Lipids go nowhere in the human body unless they are a passenger inside a lipoprotein. And if a lipoprotein decides, for whatever reason, to crash through the lining of your arteries into the the arterial wall, youve got what I have coined an illegal dump-job of cholesterol in your arteries. That is atherogenesis. That is the beginning of atherosclerotic plaque. And if this illegal dump job, so to speak, continues to occur, week after week, month after month, decade after decade, sooner or later youve got some seriously occluded arteries -or arteries full of plaque that are going to rupture. So, it is so crucial - and it is a tragedy how many doctors do not know this - that atherosclerosis is a lipoprotein mediated disease. The lipoproteins that are capable of leaving plasma and entering your artery wall - Im going to call them as atherogenic lipoproteins - theyre bad guys. If a lipoprotein floats around your arteries carrying lipids but it never goes into your artery wall? Thats the type of lipoproteins I wish we all had because if that lipoprotein doesnt invade the artery wall, thats a good lipoprotein. It does what its supposed to do - not bring cholesterol into the artery wall - its bringing it somewhere else. I love this podcast conversation between Jimmy Moore and Dr. Thomas Dayspring that is a lesson about cholesterol. In fact, I break this information down and explain it in even more simplified terms when I talk about cholesterol, measuring it, and what matters in the measurements (as well as what we can do to affect cholesterol - if thats even necessary) when I teach seminars/and in the upcoming online BB Workshop. I reference and credit this information as well as a series of interviews Chris Kresser did with Chris Masterjohn, PhD for much of that information as I think its extremely valid and important. https://itunes.apple/us/podcast/29-dr.-thomas-dayspring-cholesterol/id495159994?i=122016797&mt=2
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:00:01 +0000
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