I just read an article. It said that low triglycerides and higher LDL means you have healthy fats in your diet; which mean big LDL particles, which all is a good thing, meaning low cardio. vascular risk. Is this right?
Just had my lipids tested and my trigs. were 76, while LDL was 165.
Low triglycerides is a function of low carbs (and not fasting), as carbs raise trigs.
LDL is meaningless in my opinion.
The only way to determine if you have larger LDL is to get a test. Here’s my last test like this:
By the way, I took two of these. The test on 6/14 was after 4.5 days fasting, and the test that has the LDL medium of 138 was taken a mere 3 days later, after eating super high fat for 3 days. You can see how rapidly these values change (LDL medium went from 261 to 138, so about half, in three days.
Oh yeah, and on 6/13, I got a coronary arterial calcification scan done and got a zero score.
Hmm…I guess it cut off what I was discussing. LDL medium is under LDL peak size.
@ctviggen This is a very interesting statement. What if it indeed turns out to be true!
You mean your medium LDL was cut in half AFTER 3 days of eating fats? Do you know your trigs. number Bob?
I’d read that low trigs was also indicator of clean (no plaque) arteries…which seems to be verified by your Zero art. calcif. reading.
The dietetic / cardiology mainstream takes LDL very seriously indeed. We need more investigation about what it means in the context of reduced dietary carb intake and the meaning of Pattern A and Pattern B. Outside the LC world there’s a lot of fear around LDL.
If you haven’t yet met Dave Feldman, now’s as good a time as any:
The issue with the Total LDL number being useless is valid since the number doesn’t reflect the large vs. small particle amounts. That’s why in the absence of an ion mobility analysis we use the HDL vs. Triglyceride ratio to determine the approx. ratio of small to large particles. A ration of 3:1 trig to Hdl being good, with a 2:1 ration or even less being excellent, indicating the LDI has little of the detrimental small particle types.
