Full Transcript Why Normal Cholesterol Can Be Misleading 0:00 You can feel great, exercise every day, and have a typical cholesterol panel within normal reference ranges. 0:07 And you can still have the cardiovascular risk that the panel does not reveal. 0:12 That is the danger of treating normal cholesterol like in All Clear. 0:16 By the end of this video, you will understand what the standard panel leaves unanswered and why better information can lead to a smarter plan and better outcomes. 0:27 I'm cardiologist Dr. 0:28 Jack Wolfson, and across more than 100,000 patient visits, I have seen how easily reassuring numbers can distract people from the bigger picture. 0:39 Most doctors check total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglycerides.
What the Standard Panel Misses 0:43 Those numbers provide information, but they do not tell the entire story. 0:47 Cholesterol is data. 0:49 LDl is date and so is HDl. 0:51 But they are not diagnoses and they certainly are guarantees that your arteries are healthy. 0:57 A standard cholesterol panel does not tell you whether oxidative stress is damaging your protein and your fats. 1:04 It doesn't tell about inflammation and whether or not it's affecting the arterial wall. 1:09 Doesn't identify the toxins, things like insulin resistance, gut dysfunction, nutrient deficiencies, or what's going on in the endothelium, 1:18 the lining of the blood vessels that you need to know about. 1:21 So you can eat well and you stay active and maintain a healthy weight and feel perfectly fine while important cardiovascular risk factors are developing 1:31 beneath the surface. 1:32 Feeling good is certainly important, but it's not a laboratory test and one normal result should never be treated as proof that everything is fine.
Root Cause Cardiology and Hidden Risk 1:40 This is where conventional cholesterol thinking gets it wrong. 1:44 It focuses on a few numbers while ignoring the internal environment producing those numbers. 1:50 Root cause cardiology asks a different question. 1:54 Instead of asking only what is your cholesterol, I want to know why does your body look the way it does? 1:59 And what is placing your blood vessels under stress? 2:02 What is really leading to risk? 2:04 The pattern usually begins with too much bad stuff and not enough good stuff. 2:08 Too much processed food, artificial light, poor sleep, the chronic stress, toxins, indoor time. 2:15 You're not getting enough real food movement, sunshine, quality sleep. 2:19 and purposeful connections with your community. 2:22 These inputs all disrupt the gut microbiome leading to a leaky gut, activate the immune system, now you get things like inflammation and oxidative stress, 2:31 and now blood vessel damage occurs. 2:33 So the diagnosis is not necessarily the beginning of the problem, it may be a late stage label placed on a process that has been developing for years.
Better Testing for Inflammation and Toxins 2:42 That's why I say, test don't guess, go beyond the standard cholesterol panel. 2:46 I want you to understand, oxidative stress, inflammation, blood sugar abnormalities, insulin abnormality, toxin exposure and other markers that may be 2:57 much more important than total cholesterol alone. 3:00 Oxidative Stress, for example, tells us what's going on with the fats and the proteins that are getting damaged. 3:06 That's what we want to know. 3:08 Toxin testing tells us why, what is the mold exposure, the environmental toxins, plastics, phthalates, parabens and so much more. 3:16 More data is useful only when you know what questions you are trying to answer and the goal is to identify and recognize the patterns that are driving 3:25 heart attack risk. 3:26 One test is a photograph. 3:28 Repeat testing creates a movie, tells you the whole story about what's going on internally in your body.
The 100-Year Heart Method 3:36 And that's what we do at Natural Heart Doctor, we provide the information you need to get to the root cause using our 100-year heart method. 3:45 We talk about the eat well, the live well the think well. 3:47 we talk the test don't guess, evidence-based supplements and we talked about biohacking strategies that you need in order to really prevent heart attacks, 3:57 strokes and give you the longevity and the vitality and vigor that so desperately deserve. 4:04 It's not just about one number. 4:05 it's just not about a cholesterol number and how do we drive it down with pharmaceuticals as low as possible. 4:11 That's NOT the answer. 4:12 Its like the LDL and cholesterol, that's like rain and then you've got the roof. 4:17 The problem is not too much rain, the problem IS the ROOF. 4:20 Your body is the roof. 4:21 Your blood vessels are the roofs. 4:22 Fix the Roof. 4:23 Build a strong bulletproof roof and that's the strategy.
Free Webinar and Final Call to Action 4:27 Now if you want to learn more about this, I suggest you tune in to my free webinar called The Truth About Cholesterol. 4:32 We talk about cholesterol. 4:35 We talk about the markers you need to know. 4:37 We talked about pharmaceuticals and ultimately we give you a plan for root cause cardiology and the 100 year heart with longevity, 4:44 vigor, vitality and health that you deserve. 4:47 Click the link, watch the webinar and get healthy.
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