Mike Lustgarten Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBzWUsfmBc8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Put Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 Interesting, thanks! The relatively high correlation with mortality from all causes is something I had not known. I just got mine and it has jumped from 6mg/dL a few months ago, to 15 now. But most of my markers have gone worse, which I attribute to 5 months of taking Berberine :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lustgarten Posted May 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 Thanks Ron. 15 is still really good, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Allen Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 In the US a typical basic lipid panel measures total cholesterol, HDL and triglycerides which are used to calculate LDL and thus remnant cholesterol is also a calculated value, usually triglycerides/5 using the Friedewald equation. That equation is not particularly accurate and commonly varies by 10 to 20 percent with measured results. I tried the supposedly best new Sampson equation with my numbers of TC=395, HDL=100, TG=67 and got LDL=305, ie remnant IDL+VLDL=-10 suggesting my age is negative and I have achieved escape velocity! Curiously my lipid panel was done by LabCorp and they didn't use Friedewald as they calculated VLDL=8 and LDL=287. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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