Dr. Mark Hyman

And we look at the number of them and it tells us a very different picture of what's going on.

So you can have a perfectly normal cholesterol, but it can be made up of all the worst particles and your risk of heart disease is really bad.

Or you can have a really high cholesterol and it's made up of all the good particles and not a lot of them and you're totally fine.

So you can't really tell

what's going on with your heart, cholesterol, or disease risk without doing the right cholesterol test.

And function health does that.

Now, we also test other things that doctors miss.

We look at ApoB, probably one of the most important predictors of heart disease risk, which is a sort of measure of all the small and bad particles in your blood.

We also look at something called lipoprotein little a or LPA, little a, and that's a genetically determined cholesterol marker, but it can be managed and treated.

And it's important to know because you have to manage your other risks more aggressively.

And a lot of people have it and doctors miss it and they don't even look for it.

Now, the thing about heart disease is I don't want to scare people, but the first symptom of a heart attack and heart disease for 50% of the people that have it, you know what it is?

Sudden death.

You literally drop dead of a heart attack and you have no idea it's coming.

Literally no idea.

That's terrible.

So you don't want to wait.

And then it's often subtle, even if you have symptoms.

So people don't know.

And they can be a little tired, a little short of breath, a little whatever.