LDL, Insulin Resistance and The Real Cause of Heart Disease | Dr. Anthony Jay
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This episode is sponsored by Super Patch: https://bit.ly/misuperpatch Apply for Muscle Intelligence Coaching: https://muscleintelligence.com/apply You cleaned up your diet, cut the carbs, and your LDL went up. Your doctor circled it in red and reached for a statin. Dr. Anthony Jay spent five years doing heart disease research full time at Boston University Medical School — running autopsies, removing plaque from human arteries, publishing on oxidized LDL — and for most of that time he was a statin guy himself. His mentor took them and bragged about it. His textbooks put the men who invented them on a pedestal. Then he kept looking at what was actually inside the plaque, and at what the endpoint studies actually measured, and he changed his mind. He is the author of Estrogeneration and the new book Sugar Beat, and he runs a DNA consulting practice doing four consults a day. In this conversation he walks through the 28,000-person study that ranks insulin resistance more than five times higher than LDL as a risk for an early heart attack, explains what LDL is actually built to do in the body, and traces the fifty-year sequence in which the target moved from total cholesterol to LDL to particle number to particle size to ApoB — each time, he argues, right as a new drug became available. He lays out the mechanism he believes builds plaque in the first place, why your heart is designed to run on fat and what happens when you train it on sugar instead, and which markers he thinks are actually damaging the artery wall while nobody tests for them. Ben pushes back the whole way, with his own father and with a client whose LDL sits above 800. If your labs came back red and nobody explained what was actually measured, start here. KEY TAKEAWAYS The risk factor that outranked LDL by more than four to one in a 28,000-person study of real heart attacks, not blood markers What LDL is actually for, and why getting healthier can raise it by design The $40 scan he ran on himself that told him more than twenty years of cholesterol readings ever did Why he argues that lowering the number can leave you with more arterial calcification rather than less The genetic quirk he has never discussed publicly that makes olive oil and avocado a real problem for a surprising number of people CONNECT WITH DR. JAY Website – https://www.ajconsultingcompany.com DNA Analysis & Consults – https://www.ajconsultingcompany.com/dna.html YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/anthonyjaycast Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/anthonygjay Book – Sugar Beat: How Sugar, Not Cholesterol, Destroys Your Arteries Book – Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile
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