Unexpected cameos and unlikely showdowns often end up being among the most memorable moments in movies. I don’t think anyone was expecting Bob Barker from The Price Is Right to lay a beatdown on Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore, but…
Cholesterol Guidelines recommend checking for Lp(a) “Felons in Your Lipid Neighborhood” AT LEAST ONCE in a person’s lifetime. We have discussed the effect of statins and other medications on Lp(a) levels in Chapter 6 of THIS BOOK and in THIS…
Nayiri and I had an awesome time discussing The Home Security System and the Lipid Neighborhood, and I think you will enjoy this episode as well! She is a great host, and my hair was even slightly less unkempt than…
Although many clinicians and patients have been embracing the “Got Plaque? Get a CAC!” strategy to “Go Beyond the Risk Calculator” and make more nuanced decisions regarding the danger of one’s Lipid Neighborhood, there are still some haters out there.…
I’ve mentioned APOC3 and APOC3-lowering therapies such as Olezarsen and Plozasiran previously, but there is potentially a NEW LXR-BASED ELIXIR for folks with high triglycerides…and perhaps even for metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). So what is LXR? Well, it’s essentially a STEROL…
Near the beginning of the 21st century, pharmaceutical companies fell prey to the fallacy that “raising the good cholesterol” (HDL) must be a good idea, and multiple companies (whom I will not refer to by name just because they get…
Our paper, “Increased LDL-C Reduction With Ezetimibe in Ketogenic Diet-Induced Hypercholesterolemia,” which earlier this month made some National Medical Media Headlines, is currently in the 98th percentile for accesses (popularity) among the ~237,000 other scholarly articles published around the same…
Most of you are familiar with the Pokemon video game series, but just in case, the basic premise of these games is you, the Pokemon Trainer, wander around catching “Pocket Monsters” such as Pikachu, (which is an Electric Type), and…
Today was TRASH DAY in my neighborhood, and occasionally I wind up outside at the precise moment that the Garbage Man arrives to dispose of our weekly waste. And when I meet someone for the first time, it’s nice to…
Ahh…AUTOPHAGY. Autophagy is another one of those terms that everyone cavalierly throws around without any real understanding of what it means…but we know “autophagy is good.” It’s sort of the opposite of the word “fascist,” which everyone seems to use…
