A metabolic blood test and cholesterol panel can be confusing, so in this ultimate guide, our Chief Medical Officer and CoFounder Dr. Casey Means talks with Levels advisor and author of Metabolical, Dr. Robert Lustig, to give you advice on how to interpret your panels to better understand the status of your metabolic health.

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Dr. Robert Lustig walks through what HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and total cholesterol mean, how fasting insulin tests relate to your cholesterol panel, how to improve your cholesterol numbers, and how to interpret ratios of your cholesterol numbers like the triglyceridetoHDL ratio.

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What Dr. Robert Lustig and Levels’ Dr. Casey Means discuss:

00:00 Intro
02:17 Understanding cholesterol
02:44 The correlation between LDL and heart disease
05:12 The connection between LDL and triglycerides
07:14 Good cholesterol
16:48 Measuring LDL
30:04 Portal systems in the body
44:51 The importance of liver function tests
54:05 How to reduce liver fat

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