What Standard Cholesterol Testing Isn't Telling You

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Pendulum.  Dietary cholesterol from saturated fat is often
thought to be the cause of high LDL cholesterol and blocked
arteries. But we now know from updated research that it’s much more
complicated than that. Standard cholesterol testing is outdated
because it doesn’t check for particle size and particle number,
information that is needed to tell what’s really going on with your
cholesterol. Statins are often prescribed to lower LDL cholesterol,
but often do not address the root of the problem and can cause very
uncomfortable side effects. In today’s episode, I talk with Drs.
Elizabeth Boham, Ronald Krauss, and Aseem Malhotra about the true
role of cholesterol and what is really behind heart disease. Dr.
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. Ronald Krauss is a Senior Scientist at Children’s
Hospital Oakland Research Institute, a Professor of Medicine at
UCSF, and an Adjunct Professor of Nutritional Sciences at UC
Berkeley. Dr. Krauss’s research aims to understand how to best
prevent cardiovascular disease through early detection and
management of its major risk factors: most notably, elevated levels
of blood cholesterol and lipoproteins. He has published more than
450 research articles and reviews on metabolic, genetic, dietary,
and drug effects on plasma lipoproteins and the risk of coronary
artery disease, with more than 100,000 citations of this work. Dr.
Aseem Malhotra is an NHS-trained consultant cardiologist and
visiting Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the Bahiana School
of Medicine and Public Health in Salvador, Brazil. He is a founding
member of Action on Sugar. In 2015, he became the youngest member
to be appointed to the board of trustees of UK health charity The
King's Fund. He is a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in
the UK and in 2018 was ranked by software company Onalytica as the
number one doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking. This
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