Dr. Daniel Pompa

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10,432 appearances 23 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Apr

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Okay, so LDL, this is a particle carrying the cholesterol.

If it's very full, that's high.

If it's not very full, that's low.

Okay, here's the analogy I'm going to give you to prove a point.

So if there's a traffic jam, so first of all, imagine the car...

is being the particle, and how many people are in the car is how filled that car is.

Make sense?

So if you have a lot of people in the car, that would be high LDL.

If you only have one person in the car, that would be low LDL.

So good analogy, cars carrying the people, the people are the cholesterol.

Okay, in a traffic jam, what matters?

The number of people in the car or the number of cars?

Right, so that means that how many particles you have could in fact be a problem.

So if you get something called an NMR, NMR test, that looks at the particle number

And if you have too many particles, then that is shown to be not good.

The size of the particle, smaller particles are more damaging because they can actually make their way into the arterial wall and drive inflammation.

And by the way, that is the real cause of heart attacks and strokes.

Inflammation, not cholesterol, so small particles can drive more inflammation.

And that's a problem.

So that NMR test looks at the size of the particle and the particle number.

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