Assessing lipid and lipoprotein numbers should include baseline measurements of triglycerides, desmosterol, sitostanol/sitosterol, and LDL particle number.

“it's not only important to get the lipid and lipoprotein numbers but it also helps to know those three things at baseline one of which you get for free you're going to at least get a benchmark of your triglyceride but to also know your levels of does mas draw which would be your proxy for synthesis your levels of site Austral cohen stan all site of stair all these things are phytosterols meaning we can't make them so the higher they are the more we know we're absorbing sterile the fourth thing that regulates LDL P”