Paul Saladino· MD
you have 2 orders of magnitude more HDL particles in your circulation than you do LDL particles
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you have 2 orders of magnitude more HDL particles in your circulation than you do LDL particles
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here's a stat that will astound a lot of people if i took the average hdl particle the average size hdl particle out of your plasma how many molecules of cholesterol would be inside of it about 45 how many molecules are in the average size ldl particle about fifteen hundred two thousand
hdls are much smaller I would say you know in the neighborhood of one-fifth to one tenth the size of an LDL