Rhonda Patrick· PhD
ApoB increases with age. Why? We don't really know, although there are probably several contributing factors.
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ApoB increases with age. Why? We don't really know, although there are probably several contributing factors.
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and it's only when we get we know when become teenagers and in our 20s that we start to see those numbers go up and again that's really just reflected by a reduction in clearance than some need for additional LDL we don't have it majority of what we need is actually you know before the age of 20
so if you look at a child they're born with an LDL cholesterol or apob level typically below 20 milligrams per deciliter so a kid if you think about it has the greatest need for growth right like so you think about the cholesterol demand of myelinating the entire central nervous system all of the enormous uh explosion of steroidal tissue all of these things are done with lipoprotein levels that are incredibly low