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The straight dope on cholesterol – Part III - Peter Attia

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All this talk about cholesterol probably has some of you wondering how one actually measures the stuff. Much of the raw content I’m going to present here is actually material I’ve had to learn recently. One of the best resources I’ve found on this topic is the text book Contemporary Cardiology: Therapeutic Lipidology, in particular, chapter 14 by Tom Dayspring and chapter 15 by Bill Cromwell and Jim Otvos. Anyone aspiring to be a lipid savant like these three pioneers probably ought to get a copy. The other book that tells this story well is The Cholesterol Wars: The Skeptics versus the Preponderance of Evidence. For most folks, however, I’m hoping this series is sufficient and I’ll do my best to get the important points across. As far back as the 1940’s scientists understood that cholesterol and lipids could not simply travel freely within the bloodstream without something to carry them and obscure their hydrophobicity, but it certainly wasn’t clear what these carriers looked like

Want to catch up with other articles from this series? The straight dope on cholesterol – Part I The straight dope on cholesterol – Part II The straight dope on cholesterol – Part III The straight dope on cholesterol – Part IV The straight dope on cholesterol – Part V The straight dope on cholesterol – Part VI The straight dope on cholesterol – Part VII The straight dope on cholesterol – Part VIII The straight dope on cholesterol – Part IX Previously, in Part I and Part II of this series, we addressed 4 concepts: #1 — What is cholesterol? #2 — What is the relationship between the c

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