The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I used to always sit a patient down and the very first time we reviewed a blood test I would say look there's four things we're gonna talk about from a lipid standpoint we got to know your LP little a we have to know your LDL P I'd like to know how many of those are small because it's a proxy for some other stuff and I want to know your VLDL remnant well i can't measure that so i'm going to approximate it with v ldl-c
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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so at baseline which was on June 21st this is basically following about six months of time restricted feeding restricting sugar but not carbohydrates you see a total cholesterol LDL cholesterol HDL cholesterol triglyceride non HDL cholesterol and V LDL cholesterol so those are what we would call a very standard lipid panel
beneath that you have the NMR results that's the LDL particle the small LDL particle the small or small dense LDL cholesterol the HDL particle