Optimal The Podcast Episode 2 - Cholesterol: the molecule, the biomarker

Cholesterol is a type of fat found in our blood. It is the basic building block of human biochemistry and physiology.

Our body needs cholesterol to digest our food and produce hormones, and vitamin D. Cholesterol is something we can't live without, but too much of it is also bad.

Join Dr. Dicken Weatherby and Beth Ellen DiLuglio as they talk about the basics of cholesterol, what you probably didn't know about it, and why everyone has a strong opinion about it.

Find out what cholesterol does in your body as they discuss cholesterol biomarkers and look at ranges, clinical implications, research, and everything associated with it!

Episode Highlights:

(02:22)What is cholesterol?

(03:46) What does cholesterol do to the body?

(05:37) The good and bad cholesterol

(06:43) Oxidized cholesterol

(08:36) How allopathic medicine shuts down cholesterol and its downside on human physiology

(15:10) Maintaining total cholesterol, LDL and HDL

(16:05) Cardiovascular risk

(17:50) What happens when a patient is low in certain steroid hormones?

(19:28) The main types of cholesterol

(26:47) What does it mean when a person has an extremely high level of HDL?

 

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