Peter Attia· MD
talk about the idea that having a high HDL means you don't need to worry about cardiovascular disease and how that's obviously going to be bunk
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
talk about the idea that having a high HDL means you don't need to worry about cardiovascular disease and how that's obviously going to be bunk
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if your quote unquote good cholesterol is high yeah you don't need to worry about anything
there are people with very high HDL cholesterol been told they're protected and we know they are not
I can't look at a man or a woman and say oh my God you're the one with high hdlc who might wind up with Dementia or some cancer or something I don't know so we'll track those other diseases with other modalities that we have at our beck and call I don't know what to tell you about your cardiovascular health if you have high hdlc but I can guarantee you it is not a declaration of cardiac immortality