Nutritional Lipidology

I depart momentarily from the primary focus of the Wheat Belly Blog and discuss something that I have been following in practice for more than 10 years. I call it Nutritional Lipidology, the study of the effects of nutrition on lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic parameters, the stuff underlying many diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases. It is indeed relevant to the Wheat Belly conversation, as wheat elimination and, even better, grain elimination, yields dramatic effects on lipids, lipoproteins, and the factors that drive cardiovascular risk. In fact, I have found these simple strategies so powerful that most people obtain values that are better than that achieved with statin drugs and other prescription agents. No, the world does not need more statin drugs; it needs better unbiased health information that does not result in revenues for deep-pocketed drug companies. People–including my colleagues–prefer to talk about “cholesterol.” I call cholesterol the kindergarten version of how to understand how cardiovascular disease is caused: there’s a germ of truth to it, but it vastly oversimplifies the real causes, is often misleading, and can be subverted into the service of those who are adept at bending the truth, AKA pharmaceutical companies. This discussion can get awfully hairy very quickly (I tried to tame it in the chapter called “My particles are bigger than yours” in the original Wheat Belly book), so let me try to distil...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol HDL lipoproteins small LDL particles statin triglycerides Source Type: blogs