What is LDL? Understanding in Simple Terms with Dr.Berg

Confused about cholesterol and LDL levels? Here’s everything you need to know about LDL (in simple terms!).

okay guys we’re going to talk about LDL this is so called bad cholesterol everyone’s afraid of it stands for low density lipoproteins I’m going to want to clear up some confusion on what this is it’s not really cholesterol it’s a protein carrier because cholesterol doesn’t mix with water too well so it needs to be shuttled through a little truck or a bus so LDL low-density lipoprotein it’s not cholesterol it has cholesterol in it but it’s just a protein shell okay now the reason why people consider this bad is simply because it carries cholesterol to the arteries and then the HDL the good cholesterol take the cholesterol out of the arteries and goes back to the liver okay but let’s just talk about cholesterol in general as I’ve said in the other videos your body makes cholesterol every single cell in your body makes it your liver makes a thousand milligrams the rest of the cells make 2,000 milligrams so total at 3,000 milligrams every single day okay so your body needs it so if you have high LDL and you’re scared of that here’s here’s here’s the facts the real purpose of LDL is not to cause damage it’s like it’s like a something that directly binds in actin activates in activates bacterial toxins okay it prevents the damage from toxins from microbes it’s there to help heal the cell okay that’s what it’s there in fact it really tries to interact inactivate Staphylococcus aureus which is caused by MRSA you know and if you’ve heard about in some of the hospitals they have this very resistant microbe and MRSA and it’s basically creating dissolving red blood cells it’s so so nasty do you realize that LDL helps to neutralize that and someone goes on a statin a cholesterol-lowering drug that basically inactivates cholesterol you’re more susceptible to this infection you’re more susceptible to Marissa that’s probably why a lot of the people in the hospital which is they’re on statin if they’re getting Marissa I mean it helps neutralize salmonella this might be something new but to you but it’s actually it’s true so lvl takes care of microbes the specific LDL that you want to test is LDL P and the reason for that is that I’m not even concerned about LDL C which is stands for cholesterol but we want to know the number of particles because that will indicate how much triglycerides that are also in this LDL because it carries triglycerides which are blood fats and cholesterol okay so when the doctor says though your bad cholesterol is high we need to put your medication what they should say is why is it high I mean it’s there to try to heal something so let’s talk about what would increase LDL number one insulin resistance and in select pre-diabetes diabetes that’ll increase it hypothyroid infection do you realize that when you’re sick your cholesterol dl goes way up because your body is trying to heal it right leaky gut because there’s an immune reaction genetics there’s there’s a genetic problem with this and so if you are tested which is rare if you are tested with a genetic problem with high levels of cholesterol that’s a whole different video okay I’ll do it on that later but and you need to keep it lower because you can get out of control but I’m not talking about those people stress will increase your LDL if you were to monitor your LDL on a hour to hour basis it will fluctuate all over the place so stress will increase it because of increased cortisol which increases insulin and then surgery if you come out of surgery your LDL spiked up if you get a tooth extraction your LDLs increase okay any type of trauma and visceral fat that’s the fat around your gut can increase this as well so instead of trying to get rid of it ask the question why it’s their start to heal it and it will come down I just like it it’s it’s one of the greatest ways to India just like a red flag to pull the string to see what is causing that it’s like now you know all the potential things you can actually correct this and then it will come down but the last thing you want to do is get on some drug to inactivate this healing cholesterol thanks for watching I just want to take a moment to thank you for your amazing amazing successes that you guys are writing about and I would love to have a complete success rate from you with a before picture and an after picture as well if you have that and I put a link down below so you can fill it out if you don’t have a weight loss before and after just put an image of yourself and your success I would love to read it and I would love to share it with others because it does give them hope that they could be helped too thank you so much