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CHOLESTEROL CLARITY
Important Medical Disclaimer for Cholesterol Clarity
Contents
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Health Has Been Reduced to a Numbers Game
Who Is Jimmy Moore and Why Did He Decide to Write This Book?
Most Health Information Is Biased and Confusing
Start by Cutting through the Misinformation
What Makes Jimmy Moore a Cholesterol Expert?
Let’s Meet Your Cholesterol Experts
Cassie Bjork, RD
Philip Blair, MD
Jonny Bowden, PhD
John Briffa, BSc, MB, BS
Dominic D’Agostino, PhD
William Davis, MD
Thomas Dayspring, MD
David Diamond, PhD
Dr. Ron Ehrlich, BDS, FACNEM
Jeffry N. Gerber, MD
David Gillespie
Duane Graveline, MD
Paul Jaminet, PhD
Malcolm Kendrick, MD
Ronald Krauss, MD
Fred Kummerow, PhD
Dwight C. Lundell, MD
Robert Lustig, MD
Chris Masterjohn, PhD
Donald Miller, MD
Rakesh “Rocky” Patel, MD
Fred Pescatore, MD
Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD
Stephanie Seneff, PhD
Cate Shanahan, MD
Ken Sikaris, BSc, MBBS, FRCPA, FAACB, FFSc
Patty Siri-Tarino, PhD
Mark Sisson
Gary Taubes
What Is Cholesterol and Why Do You Need It?
But I’m Still Worried about Cholesterol “Clogging” My Arteries
Ancel Keys and the Lipid Hypothesis: A Brief History of Misinformation
Your Number-One Health Advocate Is YOU
Forget Cholesterol— It’s the Inflammation
Without Inflammation, Cholesterol Can’t Harm You
What Do Major Health Groups Say about Cholesterol?
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
American Heart Association (AHA)
American Medical Association (AMA)
The Mayo Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic
Doctors Are Questioning the Anticholesterol Message
Doctors Deserve Our Respect, But They Have Been Misled on Cholesterol
Cholesterol Levels and Heart Disease Rates Show No Correlation
Statin Drugs: Magic Pill or Marketed Poison?
Don’t Just Take It from Me: Take It from All These People Who Were Prescribed Statins
Why Have Statin Drugs Become the First Line of Defense against High Cholesterol?
The Wildly Underreported Side Effects
of Statin Drugs
Why Statin Drug Therapy Might Not Be Effective for Women
Should Anyone Be Taking a Statin Drug?
What Does Heart Healthy Really Mean?
Heart Healthy Is Code for Eating Less Fat and More Carbohydrates
The Incorrect “Heart-Healthy” Message Invades Popular Culture
Why Low Fat Ain’t All That
Living through the Dark Days of the Low-Fat Diet Fad
Carbs and Vegetable Oils: The Twin Villains
Carbohydrates Play a Bigger Role in Health Than You Realize
Say Goodbye to Vegetable Oils
David Gillespie Sounds the Alarm on Vegetable Oils
What’s This LDL Particle Thing?
Why Measuring for LDL Particles Is More Beneficial Than Estimating LDL Cholesterol
A Guide to Cholesterol Tests
General Lipid Panel
Berkeley HeartLab Test (BHLInc.com)
The VAP Test (TheVAPTest.com)
NMR Lipoprofile Test (Lipoprofile.com)
Diabetes Prevention & Management Panel (HDLabInc.com)
Ion-Mobility Spectrometry (QuestDiagnostics.com)
Genova Diagnostics’s CV Health Plus Genomics (GDX.net)
Forgotten and Ignored: Triglycerides and HDL
Knowing Your Triglyceride-to-HDL Ratio Is Critical to Assessing Heart-Health Risk
Dr. David Diamond’s Triglycerides Challenge
HDL Cholesterol Is Closely Tied to Your Triglycerides
The Experts Weigh In on Key Heart-Health Markers
Why Are So Many Doctors Clueless about Cholesterol?
Take Action Just Because Your Doctor Is Shortsighted Doesn’t Mean You Have to Be!
What Do You Mean My Cholesterol Is Too Low?
The Dark Side of Low Cholesterol
Tim Russert’s “Perfect” Cholesterol Numbers
The Negative Effects of Low Cholesterol on Your Heart and Brain
Cholesterol Indoctrination Has Led Us to Believe Lower Is Better
Nine Reasons Why Cholesterol Levels Can Go Up
1. Hypothyroidism
2. Eating Too Many Carbohydrates or Too Much Sugar
3. Consuming a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet
4. Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)
5. Micronutrient Deficiencies
6. The Dangers of Chronic Bacterial Infection, Especially in the Teeth
7. Stress
8. Hormonal Issues
9. Weight Loss
I’m Still Worried about My High Cholesterol!
1. Determine whether your cholesterol really is high.
2. Cholesterol reference ranges are an average of the population.
3. Cutting dietary fat and cholesterol will not improve your health.
4. The risk from statins outweighs the absolute risks of having a heart attack.
5. Consider your gut health.
6. Try improving your numbers with cholesterol-modifying supplements.
7. Consider a CT heart calcium scan of your heart.
8. A carotid IMT test also measures the presence of plaque.
9. Engage in regular periods of intermittent fasting to lower LDL particles.
10. Reverse insulin resistance by lowering fasting blood sugar and insulin.
But Aren’t the Cholesterol Guidelines Based on Solid Science?
The ATP Guidelines Attempt to Set Standards for Cholesterol Treatment
The ATP IV Guidelines Are Not Likely to Change for the Better
The Low-Fat, Vegetarian Myth
The Low-Fat, Vegetarian Diet Is All about Lowering LDL Cholesterol
Dean Ornish’s Low-Fat, Vegetarian Diet Trial Never Isolated Nutrition
The Egg Whites Fallacy
How Your Doctor (Mis)Interprets Your Cholesterol Test Results
The Beginning of a Cholesterol Revolution
Why Physicians Ignore the Rest of Your Cholesterol Panel
Overcoming Years of Dietary Dogma Will Be Very Difficult
A New Way to Assess Cardiovascular Risk
What Your Basic Cholesterol Test Results Mean
Total Cholesterol
What is it?
What do mainstream health experts consider the ideal range?
What are optimal levels for good health?
Can you lower total cholesterol naturally?
LDL-C
What is it?
Ideal LDL-C ranges, according to mainstream health experts:
What are optimal levels for health?
Can you lower LDL-C naturally?
HDL-C
What is it?
What range do mainstream health experts want you to have?
What are the optimal levels for good health?
Can you raise HDL naturally?
VLDL-C
What is it?
Ideal VLDL range, according to mainstream health experts
What are the optimal levels for good health?
Can you lower VLDL naturally?
Triglycerides
What are they?
Ideal triglyceride range, according to mainstream health experts:
What are optimal levels for good health?
Can you lower triglycerides naturally?
Eight Advanced Health Markers You Should Consider
1. Apolipoprotein B (ApoB)
2. LDL-P
3. Small LDL-P
4. Non-HDL Cholesterol
5. Lipoprotein(a)
6. High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-CRP)
7. Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) and Fasting Blood Sugar Test
8. Apolipoprotein E (ApoE)
Test Your Ability to Read Cholesterol Test Results
Now That You’ve Been Enlightened, What Happens Next?
Jimmy Moore’s Cholesterol Test Results from 2008 to 2013
Cholesterol Conversion Chart mg/dL to mmol/L
Triglyceride Conversion Chart mg/dL to mmol/L
Pounds to Kilograms
Cholesterol Clarity Testing Guide with Optimal Ranges
Recommended Resources
Books
Blogs
Podcasts
Documentaries
Other Useful Websites
Find a Paleo/low-carb friendly doctor
Glossary
Acknowledgments
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