Dr. Mark Hyman

And that leads to pretty much, as I said, almost all the diseases of aging.

In fact, one of the hallmarks of aging is inflammation.

Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, dementia, stroke, kidney disease.

These are all inflammatory diseases, even hypertension, inflammatory diseases.

And if we figure out the cause of the inflammation, we can get it sorted.

It'll also help us track autoimmune diseases as well.

They're really important.

And a lot of people are going to have vague symptoms of inflammation.

They just might not feel good.

They might be achy.

They might be tired.

They might have brain fog.

They could obviously have weight gain because of that.

Inflammation from any cause will cause weight gains.

For example, if you have a gut issue and you have bad bugs in your gut and they're producing inflammatory molecules, you can gain weight independent of having a crappy diet because it'll just drive inflammation.

All right, let's talk about cholesterol.

Cholesterol is one of those things that, you know, doctors check, everybody gets it, it's standard, but they don't do the right test.

And they miss doing a whole bunch of tests that are really, really important.

So yes, we look at total cholesterol and HDL and LDL and triglycerides, but we look at the quality of those particles and cholesterol molecules.

We look at the size of them.