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kmud-130621-heart-2 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-130621-heart-2. The excerpt begins at 41:15 and runs for 57 seconds.

So the level of HDL or the proportion of the total cholesterol partly is just reflecting how stressful your environment is. For example, drinking too much alcohol will raise your HDL. Being exposed to too much of the fish oil type of irritation or peroxidation will raise your HDL defensively. So you're saying, again, the opposite of what we hear from the medical establishment. You're saying the HDL is the bad cholesterol? No, it's defensive. But having it high doesn't necessarily mean that you're on a good diet program because just drinking too much liquor can raise it.