Peter Attia· MD
was a case study of a woman who had a an HDL cholesterol of about a hundred and thirty to a hundred and forty milligrams per deciliter so for the listener you just never see levels of HDL like that unless you work in the lipid community or you're a lipid ologists which means I don't see them because I'm not a lipid ologist I just pretend to be one but you know the average person the average female might walk around with an HDL cholesterol of 60 milligrams per deciliter so this woman is showing up at two and a half times normal and interestingly I don't even know you remember this case study Tom but if not I think I remember enough for the details she had very accelerated atherosclerosis she did not by the way to my recollection have particularly elevated LDL cholesterol her LDL cholesterol was probably about a hundred and ten milligrams per deciliter slightly below her HDL cholesterol and of course the question was why did this woman have elevated atherosclerosis when she had normal amounts of quote unquote the bad cholesterol and two and a half to three times normal good cholesterol