October 13, 2025 • 45 mins
What if everything you thought you knew about cholesterol was wrong? Today on ‘The Dr. Bob Martin
Show’, we’re diving into a groundbreaking NIH discovery that’s rewriting the rules of heart health. For the first time, scientists have captured LDL cholesterol in action—revealing how it binds to its receptor and what happens when that process goes wrong. From the surprising truth about statins to the future of personalized cholesterol treatments, this episode will change how you think about your heart health. Plus, we’ll break down what your cholesterol numbers really mean and how you can take control of your health.
Special Guest: Jim LaValle - clinical pharmacist, author, and board-certified clinical
nutritionist
Show’, we’re diving into a groundbreaking NIH discovery that’s rewriting the rules of heart health. For the first time, scientists have captured LDL cholesterol in action—revealing how it binds to its receptor and what happens when that process goes wrong. From the surprising truth about statins to the future of personalized cholesterol treatments, this episode will change how you think about your heart health. Plus, we’ll break down what your cholesterol numbers really mean and how you can take control of your health.
Special Guest: Jim LaValle - clinical pharmacist, author, and board-certified clinical
nutritionist
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Good day to you, and welcome doctor Adam Brockman here,
co host of The Doctor Bob Martin Show, where we're
gonna cut through the noise and deliver you health that
actually works for your life. In today's hour, we're going
to talk about cholesterol and your heart health. So let's
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talk about LDL cholesterol, that notorious bad cholesterol that's been
blamed for clogging arteries and causing heart disease. But here's
what you need to know. LDL isn't a villain always.
It's a complex molecule with a critical role in your body.
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The problem isn't LDL itself. It's when LDL goes rogue
and it builds up in your arteries and forms plaque.
And until now we've been treating it blindly, throwing statins
at the problem without truly understanding how LDL works. But
thanks to a groundbreaking NIH study, we're finally cracking the code.
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Using Nobel Prize winning technology, scientists have captured LDL in action,
specifically how it binds to its receptor and the liver.
The discovery isn't just a scientific breakthrough, I've considered a
game changer for how we may manage cholesterol and prevent
heart disease. So in this hour, we're going to break
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down what cholesterol really is and why it's not the
enemy we've been led to believe. The NIH breakthrough that
maybe rewriting the cholesterol playbook and what the cholesterol numbers
mean and how to optimize them for better heart health. Plus,
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we're going to bring in a special guest, a pharmacist
who has helped many people improve their cholesterol levels with
safe and effective therapies. Want to stick around for his insight,
and as always, this show is about you. The phone
lines are open at eight hundred six zero six eight
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or wondering how to improve your heart health, or maybe
you're curious about the latest cholesterol lowen therapies. You make
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at doctor Bob dot com. All right, folks, it's time
to ditch that cholesterol is just a number thought and
let's block your body's ability to heal itself. So ladies
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and gentlemen, today let's put cholesterol on tryle and maybe
the verdict may shock you that for about fifty years,
medicine has treated LDL like a common thief, blindly thrown
in statins at it without understanding as MO. But now,
thanks to this NIH team that's armed with a Nobel
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Prize winning technology, we've finally got our smoking gun. It's
not just science, it's dietary story that with your arteries
at the heart of this. So picture LDL cholesterol as
this master cat burglar. It slips into your bloodstream wearing
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a protein disguise known as APO B one hundred, and
it picks the locks to your liver's LDL receptors and
it empties your arteries of their elasticity or their vitality.
But until now we only had this blurry security footage
of the heist. But now with this this technology GUS
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cryo electron microscope, it's got almost like a four K
surveillance footage. So the NIH scientists they captured the exact
moment where LDL that's the bad cholesterol, binds to its
receptor known as the LDL R and that's at the
very small atomic resolution. And so what we discovered was
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that the family high cholesterol genes, the mutations, they act
like the greasy fingers. The grease fingers where LDL can't
get a grip to be cleared or taken out the bloodstream.
So what Statin's been doing is it boosts these receptor numbers,
but it doesn't necessarily fix those broken handshakes. So this
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is like discovering a bank vault that has a secret
weak spot that's one that twenty eight million Americans on
statins could be exploiting all along. So I think this
changes quite a bit, changes everything. We're not just lowering
LDL now, we're out smarting it at the structural level.
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So maybe it's going to be through fixes for that
family history, or I would say that the era of
the one size fits all statins is over with, so
as now using your diet in smart supplementation. It became
the most sophisticated cholesterol drug on earth. So if we
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back it up and start with the basics of cholesterol,
you know, cholesterol isn't the villain we've been led to believe.
It's actually a vital molecule that keeps your body running.
If you think of it as like a building block
for cell membranes and also for hormones like estrogen and testosterone,
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and even for vitamin D. Cholesterol is very important, but
the which is not all cholesterol is created equally, So
we talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly cholesterols.
We're talking about HDL, the high density lipoprotein. These are
the good cholesterol that scavenges excess cholesterol and takes it
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back to the liver to eliminate or for disposal. The LDL,
the low density lipoprotein, is the bad cholesterol that delivers
cholesterol to cells that can build up in the arteries
if the levels are left too high. And then another
one that's not really known is what's called VLDL. It's
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very low density lipoprotein, and this is that precursor to LDL,
and it carries triglycerides in cholesterol themselves. So the problem
isn't cholesterol itself, it's when LDL goes rogue. These LDL
particles they oxidize, they stick to the walls of the
arteries and they form plaque, and over time this plaque
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narrows the arteries and it leads to heart attacks and strokes.
So that's why LDL has been public enemy number one
for cardiovascular health. So if we're diving into this groundbreaking study,
the NIH study. It's again, it's rewriting the cholesterol playbook
for the first time. Scientists use this cryo electron microscope
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to capture LDL in action, specifically how it binds to
the receptors, those LDL rs receptors in the liver. And
this process is critical because it's how LDL gets cleared
from the bloodstream. So the key findings on this study
were that the LDL in that receptor handshake. Researchers visualize
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the exact moment, that exact molecular interaction between the LDL
and its receptor. So if you think of it like
a lock and key, the receptor is the lock. In
the LDL the low density lipoprotein, that cholesterol is the
key for that lock. So these mutations in our genes,
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the family history of high cholesterol very common, and the
mutation in that LDL the receptor gene, disrupts this handshake
and it causes the LDL to build up in the
blood stream. And then this is where statins come up.
Short statins increase that number of the LDL receptors, but
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they don't fix the broken ones. So this explains why
some patients that are on statins still have high LDL
levels despite getting the statin treatment. So the discovery is
important to note here because by understanding the ldl's structure
and behavior, we can develop targeted therapies that fix that
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root cause of the high cholesterol and not just mask
those symptoms. So if we're looking at what's next for
the breakthrough in cholesterol, we got to look at things
like the personalized medicine, the genetic testing that could identify
these receptor mutations, allowing doctors to tailor treatments for individual patients.
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Then there may be some new medications on the line
that could stabilize the ldl's structure or enhance the binding
to the LDO, making cholesterol clearance more efficient for the body.
So this isn't just about lowering cholesterol. It's about understanding
and at the small molecular level and using the knowledge
to save lives. So cholesterol is not the enemy. It's
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just a misunderstood molecule that plays a critical role in
your health. And we come back from break, we're going
to talk with a special guest and he's going to
dive into this a little bit more. You're listening to
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eight two two. All right, let's get back into it.
We've been talking about a new breakthrough for cholesterol in
how it might be rewriting the rule book on it.
So it's a study by the NIH, and I don't
think it's just a breakthrough, it might be a wake
up call. For decades we've been this whack a mole
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with LDLs using statins while ignoring the problem, which is
studying that. The study revealed that these broken handshakes between
cholesterol and your liver receptors are at fault. And of
course what we've been saying for years is that your
grocery list might be the ultimate fix. So the study
by the NIH revealed that LDL they're binding mechanism has
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been looked at like never before. These familiar like the
hypercholesterol mutations that are passed down from in your genes.
They're like grease door knobs, and that LDL just can't
get a grip. So these statins they install more doors,
more receptors, but they can't fix that slippery handle. So
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no wonder about thirty percent of the statin users still
battle high LDL levels. So maybe Statin's place will be
better understood and maybe more effective from here on out.
So this is something to demonize cholesterol. It's about hacking
its code as for years, your diet is the most
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sophisticated tool we've got, and ditching that outdated low fat
dogma and embracing more of a targeted nutrition, including clues
that our special guest will give you today. Your arteries
aren't pipes, they're like living labs in your heart. Health
depends on how you use that cholesterol. So joining us
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today is our good friend and colleague, Jim Leval. He's
an internationally known clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutritionist
and health expert. Jim has over forty years of clinical
experience in natural products, lifestyle, drug nutrient depletion, compounding, pharmacies,
and even peptides. Jim is best known for his expertise
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in precision and performance health as well as integrative care models.
Jim he has served thousands of clients using a metabolic
model for health at his facilities in Orange County, California, Austin, Texas,
and formerly at the Laval Metabolic Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jim is here today to share important cholesterol health tips
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and information with us, including what natural products might work
best for you and your cholesterol health. With that, Jim,
welcome to the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, thanks thanks for joining us today. I know you
got a busy schedule. So, Jim, you know cholesterol awareness.
It's a key component for everyone's heart healthy strategy. I
want you to explain why you think that is.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Well. I think you know, first of all, people just
think of cholesterol may here, good is bad, right, HDLs
are good at LDLs are bad? Right, and your total
cholesterol number. And really science has.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Come a long way. Right.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
First of all, we understand now that cholesterol isn't due
to eat, you know, necessarily a food desigh in fat.
It's probably more that your insulin resistant or pre diabetic
that you're making more lipids. But the reality is you're
you're you can either make good lipids or bad lipids,
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you know, so it's bad actor lipids. And it's not
just LDL. It's how big is your LDL cholesterol? Is
it fluffy? If it's small, then it penetrates the innerlining
of your orgery, which as you said, it's a it's
a lab in that interlining of the artery, the glycoklyx,
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it's that interlining. It's the LDL cholesterol can get in there.
Basically you're immune system attacks it and you start the
plaque process. And so how do we know that you're
likely for that? It's by looking at the different fractions
of cholesterol that can be a problem for your artery,
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both on how stiff they are leading to the high
blood pressure, but then also if they're getting damaged. And so,
you know, cholesterol. You know people here that from ow
it's not that important. That really is important, but it's
important that you get a thorough lab to understand the
importance of it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, I agree with that. You know, people are saying, oh,
you know, cholesterol is just just a number, but you
need to focus on those individual numbers in particular that
that LDL and the HDL levels and it's affects so
many people, Jim, how many people are affected? By by
high cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Oh my gosh, it's it's over eighty million people. It's
like eighty six million people have borderline the high cholesterol.
So that's a that's a pretty good chunk of folks.
Seven percent of children and adolescents, so it's a big number.
I find that we're not looking at things like oxidized
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heel e L, which is like the rate of rusting
of your ld L cholesterol which causes it the plaque,
or little life things like lipe of protein little A
or apo lipoprotein B. These are the fractions of cholesterol
that the higher those are, the more you're in trouble
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because we need cholesterol. Cholesterol helps our cell membranes. It
helps us to build our hormones. It's you know, it's
a it's a building block. But not if we're making
bad building material.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah. Absolutely. And in the first the first part of
the show, I talked a little bit about cholesterol. So
in your words, Jim, I want to I want to
review with the listeners again, Uh, what is cholesterol? You know,
through throughout a lot of different terms there about the uh,
the L d l's oxidizing and things like that. So
so in your terms, what is cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Basically, it's of that molecule. It's found then in every
cell in your body, and it's and it's a necessary component.
So cholesterol is fat, fat like, and it is a
building block to create hormones and vitamin D and digestive
enzymes and protects the brain. So you know it's a
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building block that's based on fat.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
M Yeah, so so important for a lot of those hormones,
the testosterone, estrogen, all those need cholesterol in the in
the body. So the we're talking about again, like the
main types of the main kinds of cholesterol. Can you
go into further detail on those, Jim.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Sure. So, low density lipoproteins or LDL cholesterol is thought
to be what is like historically the bad cholesterol, but
we now know that the smaller the LDL the particle
size you can measure the size of it, the more
damaging it potentially can be. And the way I explain
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that to people is, hey, think of the innerlining of
your ard or you're like a tennis net, and if
you're making L the L cholesterol the size of the softball,
you're not going to get too many throws paths through
the tennis net. Right, it's not going to penetrate and
go through the tennis net. But if you were making
BB sized cholesterol, how many bebes could you throw through
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a tennis net? And that's and what shapes the size
of your lipids are things like the stress hormone cortisol,
is your insulin levels high? Are you insulin resistance or
do you have diabetes? Maybe environmental burden can do that. Obviously,
a lack of sexual moons, like if you're a stra
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dial loone woman, if your testosteroso as a man. So
there's different reasons why it's stress, does it right, different
reasons why those lipids can go bad. Ahdls are supposed
to be good as long as they are big and fluffy.
If they're smaller, they don't protect us as much.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's a good way to explain it. Jim, and we're
coming up on a break. We're talking with Jim Leval.
He is a clinical pharmacist, he's an author, and he's
a board certified clinical nutritionists and he's talking helping us
out with cholesterol today. We got more information coming from Jim,
and I don't want you to wander off just yet.
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All Right, we've been talking with Jim Laval. He's a
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clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutritionists and health expert.
We've been talking about cholesterol today, Jim, and again, cholesterol
is very important and I want to want you to
tell the listeners why cholesterol matters.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Well, I mean, the first thing is is that too
much cholesterol, especially if your lifestyle habits are poor, you're
eating the wrong food. You're spiking your blood glucose after
you eat, which is the single biggest thing that plaques
your argeries is the amount of inflammation that curs after
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you spike your bood sugar. So you know, if your
cholesterol is too high, you're making bad actor cholesterol and
your lifestyle is not correcting for it. It basically penetrates
that arterial wall and then you're it's called infamal medial witness.
The inner linings of your eyeries get thicker and more stiff,
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and now you develop aflscrosis. So you know, you lower
blood flow to your extremities, and of course, when you
can't get blood to your extremities and deliver oxygen to
your extremities, you get more damage to those tissues.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And ultimately, if you're constricting that blood flow, it puts
you at a higher risk of heart attack and stroke.
And so, Jim, how do you know if you have
high cholesterol?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Pretty straightforward. You just have to get blood tests, and
you want to do it fasting at least. I always
tell people ten hours, but at the minimum of an
eight hour fast, and then go get your cholestral tested down.
You can do that through a van puncher, like go
to a lab and get it drawn out of the
van your arm. They're also the fingersticks are pretty accurate,
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especially if you go to a health there and they
have the immediate cholesterol readings. You could also do that
or it'll show you hdl LDL total cholesterol and triglycerides,
which is another risk factor when your triglycerides get elevated.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, and Jim, so again, if we're talking just the
numbers of cholesterol, just a real baseline, quick baseline for
the listeners, where would you put each of those levels at.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I mean two hundred for total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol should
be less than one thirty actually, and then LDLs if
you're a man greater than forty, for a woman greater
than fifty, I like them higher. And then obviously for triglycerides,
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it's moving solidly towards one hundred or less being ideal.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
M Yeah, And that's an important pointing component in this
because it does trikel rides. It's another another type of
fat that that flows through the blood. And while they're
necessarily not basically part of that plaque that builds up
that high levels, they they help to uh, they basically
bring in those those LDLs and stick to the stick
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of the walls a little bit more. And if you're
if you're talking about what what can you do if
you have high cholesterol, what can you do to lower that?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Well, I mean age garlic extract has been my go
to for a long time. Obviously, changing your diet, exercising right,
like getting off sugar, really watching saturated SAT, especially if
you're a certain genotype. Saturated SAT's not good for you.
You know, getting adequate sleep, you know, you know, get
that exercise in regularly all good. But probably the most
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proven compound is age garlic extract to otherwise known as kyolic.
Nine hundred publications. I mean they published six to eight
new studies a year. And the interesting thing onkyolic is
that in prouse blood pressure, they've had multiple randomized trials
showing that it lowers systolic blood pressure by about ten points,
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lowers the diastolic pressure by about five points. So the
high number comes down, the low number comes down. What's
that mean? Your blood vessels are more reflectible. It reduces
oxidized LDL, So the damaging bad actor lipids like oxidized
LDL a fu life approachein b they go down when
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you take age garlic extract, and age garlic extract has
been shown to regress or reverse vulnerable flat in humans.
Not in my study in humans it showed that. So
there isn't in my opinion, there isn't a single supplement
that does more for your kind of predio vascular health,
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meaning you know the effect on the you know of
these bad actor lipids on your blood vessels plaquing all
of that.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
M h.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, that's a that's an important to note. So it's
over nine hundred and fifty studies on kyolic age garlic extract,
and there's there's many different kinds of coyolic age garlic extract.
Which which are the formulas that you recommend for this.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Jim, Yeah, I mean several formulas. The uh the product
that has lepisin in it fantastic. So one has lepisin
which helped with you know, improving your lipid profile, uh phytos,
and then one with phytosterols, and phytosterols basically bind up
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cholesterol and helped to carry it out of the body.
So that's that's great, so it reduces the absorption of cholesterol.
And then of course there's one with the omega threes,
and omega threes have got great. A lot of people
don't eat fish anymore because they're worried about the toxicity
of fish. But you know, omega threes help your HDLs
to improve and help the fluff them up and help
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the lower your triglycerides. So they you know, they literally
have formulas you know that work for everyone. So formula
one oh four has lefisin, Formula one oh seven has
got the phytosterols, and then a formula one five zero
or one fifty has got the omega threes and people
can go on to kyawak dot com and they can
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see these different formulas. The only thing I would add
is the goal is is if you don't have any symptoms,
twelve underd milligrams a day of estaric extract. If you
already have existing hypertension or you've been told you've got
a little bit of calcification, you want to get to
twenty four hundred milligrams.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Okay, Okay, Yeah, that's a that's a good a good
point to know. Note there, and so Jim, right before
break here, I want you to give how can how
can listeners find coyolic age garlic extract? I know you
listened to the website, but where can they find it?
In stores?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Number one store, number one product in health seat stores
in the garlic section. So THEYDY go to any healtheat
store and they will find Kyola K y O l
I C extracts.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, readily available at most of the local health food stores,
the big national chains in online at kyolic dot com.
All right, we're talking with Jim Laval. He is a
clinical pharmacist and he's a certified clinical nutritionist. Jim, I'd
like you for you stick around for a little bit
longer if you can. We're leading up to the break here.
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Welcome back, Doctor Adam Brockman here as we return to
the Doctor Bob Martin Show, America's number one health talk
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doctor bob dot com. All right, Jim, thanks for joining
us today. I know, I know you've got a busy schedule,
(35:10):
so there's no time like present to take those steps
to reduce your total total cholesterol and your LDL cholesterol.
So I incorporate those tips that you've given today in
your lifestyles. You'll start to see those benefits sooner rather
than later. Can you remind our listeners one more time
where they can find coyolic age garlic extrac in. What
formulas you use for for cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Kyolic dot com, k y l i C dot com.
Any of the major health each stores are going to
have it the formula specific or formula one, O four,
one O seven and one five.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh all right, Jim, Well, thank you very much for
joining us today, and I'm going to go into a
little bit more detail on each of these formulas for
our audience. All right, So if we're talking about that
formula one oh four for cholesterol health, it cantains a
combination of six hundred milligrams of that age garlic extract,
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and the combination it supports healthy cholesterol levels already within
normal ranges in overall cardiovascular health. So if we're talking
a little bit further about that formula one oh seven
that contains six hundred milligrams of age garlic extract in
four hundred milligrams of those phidosterols, those plant sterols in
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those esters, and that's per serving. So those are those
plant fats that are structurally similar to cholesterol that sels,
so they can inhibit that absorption of the dietary cholesterol,
and that's competing for that space and the intestinal track,
which helps to lower that those LDL, those bad cholesterol levels.
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So that plant based blended naturally supports those healthy cholesterol
levels and it helps with that overall cardiovascular health. And
so finally, that formula one point fifty that has the
omega threes and it contains two and forty milligrams of
age garlic extract in another two thousand milligrams of distilled
fish oil concentrate that contains those omega three fatty acids,
(37:10):
the epas and the DHA that's per serving. And so
this source from Norway, and it's producing a pharmaceutical grade
GMP facility and it promotes that sustainability and accountability for that.
The combination of the cholic age garlic extract in those
omega threes, they support healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels that
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are already within those normal ranges. And it aids in
circula circulation in the body, in the body's natural anti
inflammatory response. So these are important to note here. It's
odorless natural fish oil and it's an odorless organic garlic extract,
so it makes it a unique source for those essential
omega threes for that cardiovascular health. So again, if you
(37:56):
have high cholesterol levels, it's again it seems like it's
a tough task to do to lower those levels. There's
a number of different ways that you can you can
do in addition to the kyolic age garlic extracts to
lower your cholesterol levels and bring them within a healthy range.
If we're talking about you know, cleaning up your diet
(38:16):
something that we Doctor Bob and I talk about on
the show often. If you want to change your cholesterol profile,
it starts with the way you eat. So if you're
eating those those right fats. Again, just like we talk
about with the Omega threes, not all fats are bad
for you. Some of those fats are essential part of
your healthy diet. But in order to see that drop
(38:37):
in cholesterol, you have to have to watch out for
certain types of fats, like the saturated fats. Those are
the ones that are found in your red meats, in
those full fat dairy products, and then also the trans
fats which are found in fried foods and processed foods
and also commercially baked goods. So if you're decreasing your
(38:59):
conception of the these foods, that can help to reduce
your LDL those low density lipoprotein level cholesterols. So a
good place to start with this is by switching out
maybe your butter or your margarine for a high quality
extra virgin olive oil or maybe even an avocado oil.
(39:19):
Then if you try making omega three is a part
of your diet, like a rich in salmon vegetable dishes,
serve those with your foods at least a couple times
a week. Also, data suggesting that if you use dietary
fiber and may lead to lower levels of your LDL cholesterols.
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So it also reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.
So if we're talking about soluble fiber, which isn't necessarily
absorbed in the testin, but it binds to cholesterol and
removes it from the body. So if you're talking about
eating about five to ten grams of soluble fiber per
day can help lower those to LDL cholesterol levels by
(40:02):
as much as five to eleven points. So you're talking
about foods that are high in fiber include whole grains,
lean proteins, fruits, and vegetables. And you can get more
soluble fiber through supplementation as well where needed. And of course,
avoid sugar sugar sweetened beverages. They don't do your cholesterol
(40:23):
health any good. Unfortunately, SODA's sports drinks and fruit fruit
drinks are America's favorite source of those added sugars. All right, folks,
So we're coming up on a break, and when would
come back, we're gonna talk about cholesterol just a little bit.
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This is doctor Adam Brockman and you're listening to the
Doctor Bob Martin Show. Well, folks, we've reached the end
of today's show. We've peeled back the layers of LDL cholesterol.
We explored the groundbreaking NIH discovery and we're uncovering how
this knowledge can transform your heart health. But before we
(43:34):
sign off, let's talk about the key takeaways. First, cholesterol
isn't always the enemy. It's a vital molecule that keeps
your body running. The real problem is when LDL goes rogue,
it builds up in your arteries and it forms that plaque.
And thanks to this NIH breakthrough, we now understand ldl's
(43:55):
structure and behavior at the small atomic level, paving the
way for personalized treatments that target the root cause of
high cholesterol. Second, your cholesterol numbers matter, but they're just
one piece of the puzzle. The small, dense LDL particles
they're far more dangerous than those large, fluffy ones and
(44:17):
genetic mutations. They sabotaze your body's ability to clear those
LDLs from the bloodstream. That's why it's critical to work
with your doctor to interpret your numbers and develop a
plan for you. And finally, the future of cholesterol management
seems to maybe make some changes. Maybe it's looking at
(44:38):
the genetic genetic mutations and maybe it's AI driven drug development.
So we're on the cusp of a new era in
heart health. But as always remember, knowledge is power, and
the more you understand about your cholesterol, the better equipped
you'll be to take control of your health. And also
(44:58):
I want to say thank you to our special guest
Jim LaVall for his insights, and of course all of
you for tuning in. If you miss any part of
today's show, or you want to dive deeper into the
NIH study on cholesterol, head over to doctor Bob dot com.
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latest therapies, or you just want to share your story,
we're here for you. So until next time, stay curious,
stay informed, and take charge of your health. This is
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And remember your heart health is in your hands. Make
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Good day to you, and welcome doctor Adam Brockman here,
co host of The Doctor Bob Martin Show, where we're
gonna cut through the noise and deliver you health that
actually works for your life. In today's hour, we're going
to talk about cholesterol and your heart health. So let's
(01:21):
talk about LDL cholesterol, that notorious bad cholesterol that's been
blamed for clogging arteries and causing heart disease. But here's
what you need to know. LDL isn't a villain always.
It's a complex molecule with a critical role in your body.
(01:42):
The problem isn't LDL itself. It's when LDL goes rogue
and it builds up in your arteries and forms plaque.
And until now we've been treating it blindly, throwing statins
at the problem without truly understanding how LDL works. But
thanks to a groundbreaking NIH study, we're finally cracking the code.
(02:07):
Using Nobel Prize winning technology, scientists have captured LDL in action,
specifically how it binds to its receptor and the liver.
The discovery isn't just a scientific breakthrough, I've considered a
game changer for how we may manage cholesterol and prevent
heart disease. So in this hour, we're going to break
(02:28):
down what cholesterol really is and why it's not the
enemy we've been led to believe. The NIH breakthrough that
maybe rewriting the cholesterol playbook and what the cholesterol numbers
mean and how to optimize them for better heart health. Plus,
(02:50):
we're going to bring in a special guest, a pharmacist
who has helped many people improve their cholesterol levels with
safe and effective therapies. Want to stick around for his insight,
and as always, this show is about you. The phone
lines are open at eight hundred six zero six eight
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or wondering how to improve your heart health, or maybe
you're curious about the latest cholesterol lowen therapies. You make
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six eight eight two two, or by visiting the website
at doctor Bob dot com. All right, folks, it's time
to ditch that cholesterol is just a number thought and
let's block your body's ability to heal itself. So ladies
(03:56):
and gentlemen, today let's put cholesterol on tryle and maybe
the verdict may shock you that for about fifty years,
medicine has treated LDL like a common thief, blindly thrown
in statins at it without understanding as MO. But now,
thanks to this NIH team that's armed with a Nobel
(04:18):
Prize winning technology, we've finally got our smoking gun. It's
not just science, it's dietary story that with your arteries
at the heart of this. So picture LDL cholesterol as
this master cat burglar. It slips into your bloodstream wearing
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a protein disguise known as APO B one hundred, and
it picks the locks to your liver's LDL receptors and
it empties your arteries of their elasticity or their vitality.
But until now we only had this blurry security footage
of the heist. But now with this this technology GUS
(05:00):
cryo electron microscope, it's got almost like a four K
surveillance footage. So the NIH scientists they captured the exact
moment where LDL that's the bad cholesterol, binds to its
receptor known as the LDL R and that's at the
very small atomic resolution. And so what we discovered was
(05:26):
that the family high cholesterol genes, the mutations, they act
like the greasy fingers. The grease fingers where LDL can't
get a grip to be cleared or taken out the bloodstream.
So what Statin's been doing is it boosts these receptor numbers,
but it doesn't necessarily fix those broken handshakes. So this
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is like discovering a bank vault that has a secret
weak spot that's one that twenty eight million Americans on
statins could be exploiting all along. So I think this
changes quite a bit, changes everything. We're not just lowering
LDL now, we're out smarting it at the structural level.
(06:10):
So maybe it's going to be through fixes for that
family history, or I would say that the era of
the one size fits all statins is over with, so
as now using your diet in smart supplementation. It became
the most sophisticated cholesterol drug on earth. So if we
(06:32):
back it up and start with the basics of cholesterol,
you know, cholesterol isn't the villain we've been led to believe.
It's actually a vital molecule that keeps your body running.
If you think of it as like a building block
for cell membranes and also for hormones like estrogen and testosterone,
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and even for vitamin D. Cholesterol is very important, but
the which is not all cholesterol is created equally, So
we talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly cholesterols.
We're talking about HDL, the high density lipoprotein. These are
the good cholesterol that scavenges excess cholesterol and takes it
(07:16):
back to the liver to eliminate or for disposal. The LDL,
the low density lipoprotein, is the bad cholesterol that delivers
cholesterol to cells that can build up in the arteries
if the levels are left too high. And then another
one that's not really known is what's called VLDL. It's
(07:37):
very low density lipoprotein, and this is that precursor to LDL,
and it carries triglycerides in cholesterol themselves. So the problem
isn't cholesterol itself, it's when LDL goes rogue. These LDL
particles they oxidize, they stick to the walls of the
arteries and they form plaque, and over time this plaque
(08:00):
narrows the arteries and it leads to heart attacks and strokes.
So that's why LDL has been public enemy number one
for cardiovascular health. So if we're diving into this groundbreaking study,
the NIH study. It's again, it's rewriting the cholesterol playbook
for the first time. Scientists use this cryo electron microscope
(08:24):
to capture LDL in action, specifically how it binds to
the receptors, those LDL rs receptors in the liver. And
this process is critical because it's how LDL gets cleared
from the bloodstream. So the key findings on this study
were that the LDL in that receptor handshake. Researchers visualize
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the exact moment, that exact molecular interaction between the LDL
and its receptor. So if you think of it like
a lock and key, the receptor is the lock. In
the LDL the low density lipoprotein, that cholesterol is the
key for that lock. So these mutations in our genes,
(09:10):
the family history of high cholesterol very common, and the
mutation in that LDL the receptor gene, disrupts this handshake
and it causes the LDL to build up in the
blood stream. And then this is where statins come up.
Short statins increase that number of the LDL receptors, but
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they don't fix the broken ones. So this explains why
some patients that are on statins still have high LDL
levels despite getting the statin treatment. So the discovery is
important to note here because by understanding the ldl's structure
and behavior, we can develop targeted therapies that fix that
(09:56):
root cause of the high cholesterol and not just mask
those symptoms. So if we're looking at what's next for
the breakthrough in cholesterol, we got to look at things
like the personalized medicine, the genetic testing that could identify
these receptor mutations, allowing doctors to tailor treatments for individual patients.
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Then there may be some new medications on the line
that could stabilize the ldl's structure or enhance the binding
to the LDO, making cholesterol clearance more efficient for the body.
So this isn't just about lowering cholesterol. It's about understanding
and at the small molecular level and using the knowledge
to save lives. So cholesterol is not the enemy. It's
(10:41):
just a misunderstood molecule that plays a critical role in
your health. And we come back from break, we're going
to talk with a special guest and he's going to
dive into this a little bit more. You're listening to
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two two. Again, that's eight hundred six oero six eight
eight two two. All right, let's get back into it.
We've been talking about a new breakthrough for cholesterol in
how it might be rewriting the rule book on it.
So it's a study by the NIH, and I don't
think it's just a breakthrough, it might be a wake
up call. For decades we've been this whack a mole
(13:01):
with LDLs using statins while ignoring the problem, which is
studying that. The study revealed that these broken handshakes between
cholesterol and your liver receptors are at fault. And of
course what we've been saying for years is that your
grocery list might be the ultimate fix. So the study
by the NIH revealed that LDL they're binding mechanism has
(13:26):
been looked at like never before. These familiar like the
hypercholesterol mutations that are passed down from in your genes.
They're like grease door knobs, and that LDL just can't
get a grip. So these statins they install more doors,
more receptors, but they can't fix that slippery handle. So
(13:47):
no wonder about thirty percent of the statin users still
battle high LDL levels. So maybe Statin's place will be
better understood and maybe more effective from here on out.
So this is something to demonize cholesterol. It's about hacking
its code as for years, your diet is the most
(14:09):
sophisticated tool we've got, and ditching that outdated low fat
dogma and embracing more of a targeted nutrition, including clues
that our special guest will give you today. Your arteries
aren't pipes, they're like living labs in your heart. Health
depends on how you use that cholesterol. So joining us
(14:30):
today is our good friend and colleague, Jim Leval. He's
an internationally known clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutritionist
and health expert. Jim has over forty years of clinical
experience in natural products, lifestyle, drug nutrient depletion, compounding, pharmacies,
and even peptides. Jim is best known for his expertise
(14:54):
in precision and performance health as well as integrative care models.
Jim he has served thousands of clients using a metabolic
model for health at his facilities in Orange County, California, Austin, Texas,
and formerly at the Laval Metabolic Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jim is here today to share important cholesterol health tips
(15:16):
and information with us, including what natural products might work
best for you and your cholesterol health. With that, Jim,
welcome to the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, thanks thanks for joining us today. I know you
got a busy schedule. So, Jim, you know cholesterol awareness.
It's a key component for everyone's heart healthy strategy. I
want you to explain why you think that is.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Well. I think you know, first of all, people just
think of cholesterol may here, good is bad, right, HDLs
are good at LDLs are bad? Right, and your total
cholesterol number. And really science has.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Come a long way. Right.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
First of all, we understand now that cholesterol isn't due
to eat, you know, necessarily a food desigh in fat.
It's probably more that your insulin resistant or pre diabetic
that you're making more lipids. But the reality is you're
you're you can either make good lipids or bad lipids,
(16:17):
you know, so it's bad actor lipids. And it's not
just LDL. It's how big is your LDL cholesterol? Is
it fluffy? If it's small, then it penetrates the innerlining
of your orgery, which as you said, it's a it's
a lab in that interlining of the artery, the glycoklyx,
(16:38):
it's that interlining. It's the LDL cholesterol can get in there.
Basically you're immune system attacks it and you start the
plaque process. And so how do we know that you're
likely for that? It's by looking at the different fractions
of cholesterol that can be a problem for your artery,
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both on how stiff they are leading to the high
blood pressure, but then also if they're getting damaged. And so,
you know, cholesterol. You know people here that from ow
it's not that important. That really is important, but it's
important that you get a thorough lab to understand the
importance of it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, I agree with that. You know, people are saying, oh,
you know, cholesterol is just just a number, but you
need to focus on those individual numbers in particular that
that LDL and the HDL levels and it's affects so
many people, Jim, how many people are affected? By by
high cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Oh my gosh, it's it's over eighty million people. It's
like eighty six million people have borderline the high cholesterol.
So that's a that's a pretty good chunk of folks.
Seven percent of children and adolescents, so it's a big number.
I find that we're not looking at things like oxidized
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heel e L, which is like the rate of rusting
of your ld L cholesterol which causes it the plaque,
or little life things like lipe of protein little A
or apo lipoprotein B. These are the fractions of cholesterol
that the higher those are, the more you're in trouble
(18:20):
because we need cholesterol. Cholesterol helps our cell membranes. It
helps us to build our hormones. It's you know, it's
a it's a building block. But not if we're making
bad building material.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah. Absolutely. And in the first the first part of
the show, I talked a little bit about cholesterol. So
in your words, Jim, I want to I want to
review with the listeners again, Uh, what is cholesterol? You know,
through throughout a lot of different terms there about the uh,
the L d l's oxidizing and things like that. So
so in your terms, what is cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Basically, it's of that molecule. It's found then in every
cell in your body, and it's and it's a necessary component.
So cholesterol is fat, fat like, and it is a
building block to create hormones and vitamin D and digestive
enzymes and protects the brain. So you know it's a
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building block that's based on fat.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
M Yeah, so so important for a lot of those hormones,
the testosterone, estrogen, all those need cholesterol in the in
the body. So the we're talking about again, like the
main types of the main kinds of cholesterol. Can you
go into further detail on those, Jim.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Sure. So, low density lipoproteins or LDL cholesterol is thought
to be what is like historically the bad cholesterol, but
we now know that the smaller the LDL the particle
size you can measure the size of it, the more
damaging it potentially can be. And the way I explain
(20:07):
that to people is, hey, think of the innerlining of
your ard or you're like a tennis net, and if
you're making L the L cholesterol the size of the softball,
you're not going to get too many throws paths through
the tennis net. Right, it's not going to penetrate and
go through the tennis net. But if you were making
BB sized cholesterol, how many bebes could you throw through
(20:32):
a tennis net? And that's and what shapes the size
of your lipids are things like the stress hormone cortisol,
is your insulin levels high? Are you insulin resistance or
do you have diabetes? Maybe environmental burden can do that. Obviously,
a lack of sexual moons, like if you're a stra
(20:54):
dial loone woman, if your testosteroso as a man. So
there's different reasons why it's stress, does it right, different
reasons why those lipids can go bad. Ahdls are supposed
to be good as long as they are big and fluffy.
If they're smaller, they don't protect us as much.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's a good way to explain it. Jim, and we're
coming up on a break. We're talking with Jim Leval.
He is a clinical pharmacist, he's an author, and he's
a board certified clinical nutritionists and he's talking helping us
out with cholesterol today. We got more information coming from Jim,
and I don't want you to wander off just yet.
If you've got questions about your health. We've got answers
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All Right, we've been talking with Jim Laval. He's a
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clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutritionists and health expert.
We've been talking about cholesterol today, Jim, and again, cholesterol
is very important and I want to want you to
tell the listeners why cholesterol matters.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Well, I mean, the first thing is is that too
much cholesterol, especially if your lifestyle habits are poor, you're
eating the wrong food. You're spiking your blood glucose after
you eat, which is the single biggest thing that plaques
your argeries is the amount of inflammation that curs after
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you spike your bood sugar. So you know, if your
cholesterol is too high, you're making bad actor cholesterol and
your lifestyle is not correcting for it. It basically penetrates
that arterial wall and then you're it's called infamal medial witness.
The inner linings of your eyeries get thicker and more stiff,
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and now you develop aflscrosis. So you know, you lower
blood flow to your extremities, and of course, when you
can't get blood to your extremities and deliver oxygen to
your extremities, you get more damage to those tissues.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And ultimately, if you're constricting that blood flow, it puts
you at a higher risk of heart attack and stroke.
And so, Jim, how do you know if you have
high cholesterol?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Pretty straightforward. You just have to get blood tests, and
you want to do it fasting at least. I always
tell people ten hours, but at the minimum of an
eight hour fast, and then go get your cholestral tested down.
You can do that through a van puncher, like go
to a lab and get it drawn out of the
van your arm. They're also the fingersticks are pretty accurate,
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especially if you go to a health there and they
have the immediate cholesterol readings. You could also do that
or it'll show you hdl LDL total cholesterol and triglycerides,
which is another risk factor when your triglycerides get elevated.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, and Jim, so again, if we're talking just the
numbers of cholesterol, just a real baseline, quick baseline for
the listeners, where would you put each of those levels at.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I mean two hundred for total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol should
be less than one thirty actually, and then LDLs if
you're a man greater than forty, for a woman greater
than fifty, I like them higher. And then obviously for triglycerides,
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it's moving solidly towards one hundred or less being ideal.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
M Yeah, And that's an important pointing component in this
because it does trikel rides. It's another another type of
fat that that flows through the blood. And while they're
necessarily not basically part of that plaque that builds up
that high levels, they they help to uh, they basically
bring in those those LDLs and stick to the stick
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of the walls a little bit more. And if you're
if you're talking about what what can you do if
you have high cholesterol, what can you do to lower that?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Well, I mean age garlic extract has been my go
to for a long time. Obviously, changing your diet, exercising right,
like getting off sugar, really watching saturated SAT, especially if
you're a certain genotype. Saturated SAT's not good for you.
You know, getting adequate sleep, you know, you know, get
that exercise in regularly all good. But probably the most
(26:50):
proven compound is age garlic extract to otherwise known as kyolic.
Nine hundred publications. I mean they published six to eight
new studies a year. And the interesting thing onkyolic is
that in prouse blood pressure, they've had multiple randomized trials
showing that it lowers systolic blood pressure by about ten points,
(27:15):
lowers the diastolic pressure by about five points. So the
high number comes down, the low number comes down. What's
that mean? Your blood vessels are more reflectible. It reduces
oxidized LDL, So the damaging bad actor lipids like oxidized
LDL a fu life approachein b they go down when
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you take age garlic extract, and age garlic extract has
been shown to regress or reverse vulnerable flat in humans.
Not in my study in humans it showed that. So
there isn't in my opinion, there isn't a single supplement
that does more for your kind of predio vascular health,
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meaning you know the effect on the you know of
these bad actor lipids on your blood vessels plaquing all
of that.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
M h.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, that's a that's an important to note. So it's
over nine hundred and fifty studies on kyolic age garlic extract,
and there's there's many different kinds of coyolic age garlic extract.
Which which are the formulas that you recommend for this.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Jim, Yeah, I mean several formulas. The uh the product
that has lepisin in it fantastic. So one has lepisin
which helped with you know, improving your lipid profile, uh phytos,
and then one with phytosterols, and phytosterols basically bind up
(28:50):
cholesterol and helped to carry it out of the body.
So that's that's great, so it reduces the absorption of cholesterol.
And then of course there's one with the omega threes,
and omega threes have got great. A lot of people
don't eat fish anymore because they're worried about the toxicity
of fish. But you know, omega threes help your HDLs
to improve and help the fluff them up and help
(29:13):
the lower your triglycerides. So they you know, they literally
have formulas you know that work for everyone. So formula
one oh four has lefisin, Formula one oh seven has
got the phytosterols, and then a formula one five zero
or one fifty has got the omega threes and people
can go on to kyawak dot com and they can
(29:35):
see these different formulas. The only thing I would add
is the goal is is if you don't have any symptoms,
twelve underd milligrams a day of estaric extract. If you
already have existing hypertension or you've been told you've got
a little bit of calcification, you want to get to
twenty four hundred milligrams.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Okay, Okay, Yeah, that's a that's a good a good
point to know. Note there, and so Jim, right before
break here, I want you to give how can how
can listeners find coyolic age garlic extract? I know you
listened to the website, but where can they find it?
In stores?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Number one store, number one product in health seat stores
in the garlic section. So THEYDY go to any healtheat
store and they will find Kyola K y O l
I C extracts.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, readily available at most of the local health food stores,
the big national chains in online at kyolic dot com.
All right, we're talking with Jim Laval. He is a
clinical pharmacist and he's a certified clinical nutritionist. Jim, I'd
like you for you stick around for a little bit
longer if you can. We're leading up to the break here.
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doctor bob dot com. All right, Jim, thanks for joining
us today. I know, I know you've got a busy schedule,
(35:10):
so there's no time like present to take those steps
to reduce your total total cholesterol and your LDL cholesterol.
So I incorporate those tips that you've given today in
your lifestyles. You'll start to see those benefits sooner rather
than later. Can you remind our listeners one more time
where they can find coyolic age garlic extrac in. What
formulas you use for for cholesterol.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Kyolic dot com, k y l i C dot com.
Any of the major health each stores are going to
have it the formula specific or formula one, O four,
one O seven and one five.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh all right, Jim, Well, thank you very much for
joining us today, and I'm going to go into a
little bit more detail on each of these formulas for
our audience. All right, So if we're talking about that
formula one oh four for cholesterol health, it cantains a
combination of six hundred milligrams of that age garlic extract,
(36:06):
and the combination it supports healthy cholesterol levels already within
normal ranges in overall cardiovascular health. So if we're talking
a little bit further about that formula one oh seven
that contains six hundred milligrams of age garlic extract in
four hundred milligrams of those phidosterols, those plant sterols in
(36:26):
those esters, and that's per serving. So those are those
plant fats that are structurally similar to cholesterol that sels,
so they can inhibit that absorption of the dietary cholesterol,
and that's competing for that space and the intestinal track,
which helps to lower that those LDL, those bad cholesterol levels.
(36:46):
So that plant based blended naturally supports those healthy cholesterol
levels and it helps with that overall cardiovascular health. And
so finally, that formula one point fifty that has the
omega threes and it contains two and forty milligrams of
age garlic extract in another two thousand milligrams of distilled
fish oil concentrate that contains those omega three fatty acids,
(37:10):
the epas and the DHA that's per serving. And so
this source from Norway, and it's producing a pharmaceutical grade
GMP facility and it promotes that sustainability and accountability for that.
The combination of the cholic age garlic extract in those
omega threes, they support healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels that
(37:33):
are already within those normal ranges. And it aids in
circula circulation in the body, in the body's natural anti
inflammatory response. So these are important to note here. It's
odorless natural fish oil and it's an odorless organic garlic extract,
so it makes it a unique source for those essential
omega threes for that cardiovascular health. So again, if you
(37:56):
have high cholesterol levels, it's again it seems like it's
a tough task to do to lower those levels. There's
a number of different ways that you can you can
do in addition to the kyolic age garlic extracts to
lower your cholesterol levels and bring them within a healthy range.
If we're talking about you know, cleaning up your diet
(38:16):
something that we Doctor Bob and I talk about on
the show often. If you want to change your cholesterol profile,
it starts with the way you eat. So if you're
eating those those right fats. Again, just like we talk
about with the Omega threes, not all fats are bad
for you. Some of those fats are essential part of
your healthy diet. But in order to see that drop
(38:37):
in cholesterol, you have to have to watch out for
certain types of fats, like the saturated fats. Those are
the ones that are found in your red meats, in
those full fat dairy products, and then also the trans
fats which are found in fried foods and processed foods
and also commercially baked goods. So if you're decreasing your
(38:59):
conception of the these foods, that can help to reduce
your LDL those low density lipoprotein level cholesterols. So a
good place to start with this is by switching out
maybe your butter or your margarine for a high quality
extra virgin olive oil or maybe even an avocado oil.
(39:19):
Then if you try making omega three is a part
of your diet, like a rich in salmon vegetable dishes,
serve those with your foods at least a couple times
a week. Also, data suggesting that if you use dietary
fiber and may lead to lower levels of your LDL cholesterols.
(39:41):
So it also reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.
So if we're talking about soluble fiber, which isn't necessarily
absorbed in the testin, but it binds to cholesterol and
removes it from the body. So if you're talking about
eating about five to ten grams of soluble fiber per
day can help lower those to LDL cholesterol levels by
(40:02):
as much as five to eleven points. So you're talking
about foods that are high in fiber include whole grains,
lean proteins, fruits, and vegetables. And you can get more
soluble fiber through supplementation as well where needed. And of course,
avoid sugar sugar sweetened beverages. They don't do your cholesterol
(40:23):
health any good. Unfortunately, SODA's sports drinks and fruit fruit
drinks are America's favorite source of those added sugars. All right, folks,
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Give welcome back.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
This is doctor Adam Brockman and you're listening to the
Doctor Bob Martin Show. Well, folks, we've reached the end
of today's show. We've peeled back the layers of LDL cholesterol.
We explored the groundbreaking NIH discovery and we're uncovering how
this knowledge can transform your heart health. But before we
(43:34):
sign off, let's talk about the key takeaways. First, cholesterol
isn't always the enemy. It's a vital molecule that keeps
your body running. The real problem is when LDL goes rogue,
it builds up in your arteries and it forms that plaque.
And thanks to this NIH breakthrough, we now understand ldl's
(43:55):
structure and behavior at the small atomic level, paving the
way for personalized treatments that target the root cause of
high cholesterol. Second, your cholesterol numbers matter, but they're just
one piece of the puzzle. The small, dense LDL particles
they're far more dangerous than those large, fluffy ones and
(44:17):
genetic mutations. They sabotaze your body's ability to clear those
LDLs from the bloodstream. That's why it's critical to work
with your doctor to interpret your numbers and develop a
plan for you. And finally, the future of cholesterol management
seems to maybe make some changes. Maybe it's looking at
(44:38):
the genetic genetic mutations and maybe it's AI driven drug development.
So we're on the cusp of a new era in
heart health. But as always remember, knowledge is power, and
the more you understand about your cholesterol, the better equipped
you'll be to take control of your health. And also
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I want to say thank you to our special guest
Jim LaVall for his insights, and of course all of
you for tuning in. If you miss any part of
today's show, or you want to dive deeper into the
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we're here for you. So until next time, stay curious,
stay informed, and take charge of your health. This is
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