Rhonda Patrick· PhD
the problem is when you have inflammation the inflammatory um things that are released endotoxins so when you're you know endotoxins released from the gut I mean this is a major thing that happens with people are eating lot of sugar sugar like literally causes What's called the mucin which is what makes the gut barrier to like break down and so you start to generate endotoxin and because endotoxin binds to cholesterol the same receptor on the cholesterol that is used to recycle it back to the liver is what binds endotoxin so what happens is that your LDL gets to your cell and it gets cleaved because it gives a little piece of the LDL to to the tissue or cell to repair it now what's left is a smaller particle so the smaller LDL particle then bound gets binded up to this endotoxin and now it can't get recycled so now you have endotoxin sitting around bound to LDL in your circulation this is a signal for your immune cells they're like oh bacteria so now you have macroasia and stuff going I got to get rid of this but they can't get rid of it because it's cholesterol right and so that you get the beginning of this you know foam cell forming in your in your blood vessels