April 9, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| I have a guest, a man I have not had on the show, I don't know, about five years? | |
| Is that fair to say? | |
| Seven years, Dr. Richman. | |
| Let me very quickly say, Dr. Michael Richman, who is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon and general surgeon, now he's the founder of PaladinMDs, paladinmds.com. | |
| He's a patient advocate. | |
| But the reason I'm having him on is, first of all, I have talked to you about health all of my career, whatever insight I could bring. | |
| In the beginning of my career, I told you carbs, not fat, was dangerous. | |
| I was a pretty lonely voice, but I was right. | |
| The government was wrong in its stupid pyramid. | |
| But as a rule, Ronald Reagan was right. | |
| The worst things you could hear are the government is here to help you. | |
| Is that his famous statement? | |
| Sometimes it's true and it works, but not usually. | |
| Dr. Richmond was my doctor when he was practicing medicine directly with patients, and I believe, you can't prove it, but I believe. | |
| He prolonged my life, and I thank God, very healthy. | |
| He knows his stuff, and what I recommended to you was something he made me aware of, and that is the erroneous way in which people's cholesterol is counted or measured. | |
| Dr. Michael Richman, welcome back to The Dennis Prager Show. | |
| I'm so glad to be back. | |
| It's been a long time. | |
| Say it again. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| It's been a long time. | |
| I'm so happy to be back. | |
| Yes, indeed. | |
| It is good to have you. | |
| So explain in your inimitable way what the cholesterol count is wrong about. | |
| Okay, well, first of all, I want to say, even though I haven't been on in seven years, I still have your loyal followers. | |
| I probably get three a month calling me and saying, you saved my life or you saved Dennis's life. | |
| I want you to save my life. | |
| So it really stuck, all those shows we did. | |
| So basically what the issue has been for years, it was first described in 1961. In a paper titled, Triglycerides, Coronary Artery Disease, and Lipoproteins, that we should not be measuring the fat content in the blood. | |
| We should be measuring the transport vehicles. | |
| Because, obviously, oil and vinegar don't mix. | |
| So blood is the vinegar, cholesterol is the oil. | |
| So they don't mix. | |
| You can't get them together. | |
| together. | |
| So the body ingeniously packages the cholesterol inside of particles, and those particles drive the cholesterol around the body. | |
| So if you remember the analogy I made years ago, we measure the people in the cars, but you need to be measuring the cars, because it's the cars that traffic the cholesterol throughout the body. | |
| The definition of LDL cholesterol, the traditional way, is simply the amount of liquid cholesterol And a deciliter of plasma. | |
| So take a little bowl and put cholesterol in it. | |
| How does that help you? | |
| Because it's not soluble. | |
| So we still measure the number of people in the cars and not the cars. | |
| And now it's even become more mainstream. | |
| It's become more accepted because, if you remember, there were only a couple labs doing it. | |
| Now LabCorp bought The technology, the NMR, people can get it everywhere. | |
| So technically, I can provide guidance and take care of people everywhere now. | |
| And it has been shown that normal cholesterol testing misses about 50% to 60% of the variability in the population. | |
| So that means 50% to 60% of the people, like you, were told they had normal cholesterol and didn't. | |
| Because they were counting the passengers and not the cars. | |
| Correct. | |
| And now, because more labs are measuring lipids, that's the term, correct? | |
| Of the cars. | |
| Lipoproteins. | |
| Lipoproteins. | |
| What's the difference between a lipoprotein and a lipid? | |
| Lipid is just a general term for fats. | |
| The lipoproteins are the... | |
| Proteins that are made in the body that traffic the cholesterol through the body. | |
| Alright, we're going to continue with Dr. Michael Richman. |
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