Peter Attia· MD
the predominant species when triglycerides goes above a certain threshold is the cholesterol poor small LLS that have decreased clearance so apob goes up
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the predominant species when triglycerides goes above a certain threshold is the cholesterol poor small LLS that have decreased clearance so apob goes up
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the reason apob is going up in a high triglyceride environment is because you need more ldls to carry the same amount of cholesterol eser because so much of their carrying capacity is going towards also managing the transport of triglycerides and therefore while LDL cholesterol might remain constant it's being spread out over more particles therefore apob which is the marker of particle Concentra is going up
this transformation that starts to delay the lipolysis of these particles occurs somewhere at a triglyceride 100 or above