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The Two Cholesterol Numbers Your Doctor Isn't Checking
Your doctor ran your standard lipid panel and told you your cholesterol is fine. Somewhere online, someone told you cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease anyway. Both of them are pointing at the same wrong number, and because of it, most people have never had the two tests that would actually tell them their real cardiovascular risk.
These tests are not experimental. They are available at most labs. And most doctors are still not ordering them.
In this episode, I'm going to show you why LDL misleads cardiovascular risk, what ApoB and Lp(a) actually measure, and the exact words to say at…
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