While mainstream medicine is stuck in the dark ages, obsessing over the standard lipid panel and particularly obsessing over the wrong things in the lipid panel, you should be looking to other ways to assess cardiovascular risk that are…
The standard lipid panel is traditionally performed after an 8-12 hour period of fasting, typically an overnight fast. The measured components of this lipid panel include total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and triglycerides. The Lipid Panel Tradition The…
Despite getting a bad rap for the past 70 years, cholesterol is essential for life. Without cholesterol, we could not survive. So, how did this vital substance get labeled as villain? Mainstream health care has perpetuated the myth that…
93% of American Adults are Unhealthy – A Deeper Dive A recent report (2022 study) claimed that only 6.8% of American adults have optimal metabolic health. Their analysis comes from data on adults in the United States age 20+ years…
