LDL cholesterol in perspective with Ron Krauss, MD — Diet Doctor Podcast

Can't take the scratchy voice.

Vary interesting Dr.Krauss. thanks for your research.

On the wide shots: either Ron is a giant or the diet doctor is a hobbit. Can't figure it out!

That was Gold! Thank you Dr. Bret Scher and Dr. Ronald Krauss. I'm 55. Lifetime of low HDL 17-22 and high triglycerides. Went keto for 3 years. Prescription fish oil and my diet got my triglycerides down to 70....was 400. I did the Quest Diagnostic Lipoprotein Fractional with ION Mobility test. Found my LDL-P was very high 2664. LDL Small was 767. My APOB was 120. I found statins elevated my A1C and statins accelerated calcification of my arteries as my CAC Score shot up on statins. CAC score was 67. Then started statins and 3 years later my score was 226. Stopped statins and taking Ezetimibe and recently was approved for Repatha. Blood labs soon. Hopefully I can bring my LDL-P down now.

Why is Dr. Krauss obese?

Good stuff

Wow! Just watched this entire interview a second time in one year. Still excellent!! Learned some more. Thank you both 👍👏

great interview. Hard to believe most doctors continue to use HDL/LDL test to establish risk.

I never get tired of watching this video. I hope this gentleman has younger peers and mentees that will continue and flush out more of the body of work this man has created.

YES! Always learn something important frm Dr Kraus!

I would suggest being very careful about using "Subtitles/closed captions". They are not always correct. For example, at 29.33 the closed caption uses the word "assistance" when the spoken word is "resistance". And, a few seconds earlier, "worthy" for "were these".

Bottom line: American medical association and heart association monopoly needs Congress attention to break up. The medical profession owes us a huge apology, return our money, and move forward to get help from physicists and engineers on how to analyze data and determine causality. Physicians need the help of their own fellow doctors: psychiatrists! Your loyalty to errors and ignoring data is criminally insane.

There's no better diet than naturally raised and processed foods

High carb diet really ruined the health of the populations, why does our govt. not sacrifice the other businesses instead our health?

Thank you... Not what I hoped to hear re: Lp(a) but sobering opinions from a giant in lipidology.

You might notice also that Mr. Krauss says many times that we just do not know the finer details of many aspects of his research ...

Thank god for experienced drs like this experienced one. He could easily just say "my work is done here - Ive been in this field xx yrs -some one else please take on this challenge". Instead he is swimming against the current of many years to help those of us, who are probably a large percentage, are much younger than he, who dont have his experience and knowledge. Thank you Dr Krauss for your service! I hope you see this comment.

Dr. Krauss it would be beneficial in studying the negative effects of statins to look at dementia precipitation as a result of taking statins. My wife was on statins for 2 months and she started to have a noticeable dementia related to very short term events - she was not recalling things that she did only hours previous.

That was an awesome interview!

Excellent interview! Thank you! Wow! The more we know - the more we don’t know. One thing for certain - we need to know more than we do😉👍

How many have their life shorten from this cholesterol scare.
And the whole fat scare that is been going on in the last 50 years.

I have been following keto since March of this year. I have had high triglycerides for a very long time. I had a heart attack in 2014. I have since brought them down, quite a bit. I had blood work done in April they were 191, following l.c. low fat, down from 347. I just had blood work yesterday. My triglycerides are 289 now! I've been watching as many videos as I can find, advocating keto. Can someone please, explain to me how eating higher fat is supposed to be better? Clearly, this has been found not good, for me.

Why does no one talk about lipoprotein a? That is known to be a risk factor but is rarely measures and never discussed.

Thank you so much for a clear presentation. Your questions to Dr. Krauss and the exchange of information between the two of you just simply amazing.

FORMER NIH OFFICIAL!! WORDS FROM THE INSIDE OF “THE GARDEN PATH” as Dr. Krauss puts it. I’m just now crawling out of a 30-year rabbit-hole journey through Statin use and subsequent Type II diabetes diagnosis. I don’t recall ever hearing about the LDL particle size measurement/identification.

After reading "The clot thickens" by Malcolm Kendrick, it seems to me that Ron Krauss (who definitely moved the Overton Window) may now be a bit behind the latest thinking. Kendrick makes a good case as to why atherosclerosis is not a build-up of LDL, as Krauss states.

I am always wary of medical experts who carry excess belly fat. Understanding of lipids has moved on from when this was recorded.

I had come to accept my high number with LDL until I was denied life insurance recently. Now I just don’t know.

Creative protein

I am a diabetic with high triglycerides. I just started intermittant fasting and my sugar readings and a1c have gone down. I expect that lLDL will be up. time to live and forget these numbers!!!!

Mt grandfather, father, physically fit cousin died of heartattacks in their fifties,, so now I have a clue, thank you

Seems like cholesterol is too complicated to control for benefits

If statins only lower big particles that aren’t even harmful then what’s the point?

It’s funny that nobody actually knows what’s the best dietary approach or what can eliminate oxidized LDL.

Very informative interview! Professor Krauss is a serious researcher.

Being a director of government health guidelines is somehow a good thing? I think they all need to get up against the wall! Right along with climate scientists and all double digit politicians.

Wow, he is a REAL expert with an in-depth knowledge of the subject and he chooses his words carefully, which is rare these days.

Talk about walking the tight rope between true fact and bullshit. AGAIN...Bret Sher delivers "THE INTEVIEW". This is the best informative podcast on the web about nutrition!

Great conversation - this in conjunction with the Peter Attia more recently has been very useful for my understanding. Awesome.

It is 3 years now. I wonder if Ron Krauss has done any study on high responders.

Dr Krauss needs to narrate books and films!

Is lp little a same as pattern b cholesterol?

Thank you both!! What a great interview.

Checking peoples insulin levels is a much better indication of heart disease than checking for sugar. The insulin can be rising for years responding to high sugar levels, keeping them in check but still the high insulin would have prevented years of heart disease from an insulin test.

Fantastic information and great sound in this vid

People in blue zones eat whole grains, plants, complex carbs and less proteins and yet they live longer than anybody. Maybe we need a study on them!