Paul Saladino· MD
you can't check a lipid panel you can't check ldl or triglycerides or hdl until you know what somebody's fasting insulin is or gets some sense of all these other things
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you can't check a lipid panel you can't check ldl or triglycerides or hdl until you know what somebody's fasting insulin is or gets some sense of all these other things
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i think it's all or mostly metabolic health and are you insulin resistant or not are you metabolically healthy or not what is your fasting insulin
There's really only two things I will look at in a traditional lipid panel. I'll look at their HDL cholesterol. I'll look at the triglycerides. That gives me an insight into is the likelihood of them being insulin resistant high or low.
I think there are much better indicators of cardiovascular risk specifically things like elevated triglycerides elevated fasting insulin and overall insulin resistance and metabolic health
I think there are much better indicators of cardiovascular risk specifically things like elevated triglycerides elevated fasting insulin and overall insulin resistance and metabolic health
the triglyceride story gets much more interesting and maybe much more important because it's so epidemic in this the world now this uh we know triglycerides is a poor man's biomarker of insulin resistance