What you eat has a huge impact on your health. Eating certain foods can go from desirable to dangerous in just a handful of bites! In this episode, Dr. Steve clarifies what causes your fat and talks about carbohydrates. He will tell you exactly what you need to know about VLDL, LDL, HDL, and triglycerides – as well as the process they go through inside your body (and what causes them to do so). If you would like to know how to understand and evaluate your lipid panel, then this full-of-knowledge episode is for you!

[00:01 - 03:27] Things To Look For When Having A Lipid Panel Done

• The four main things you have to check when you have a lipid panel done.
• VLDL, LDL, and HDL are all lipoproteins
• Fat is the amount of carbohydrates that you eat.
• Explaining good, healthy carbohydrates and Man-made carbohydrates.

[03:27 - 11:38] Process Of Carbohydrates Digestion And Absorption

• Saliva breaks down carbohydrates into glucose
• The stomach digests your food because it has hydrochloric acid
• After being metabolized in the stomach, carbohydrates are excreted into the first part of the small intestine
• Once the glucose gets to the liver, it can deposit into the bloodstream if necessary.
• Bloodstream reaches its capacity for glucose, and glycogen storage is full, the rest will be converted to fat and stored in fat cells.

[11:39 -19:33] How VLDL, LDL, Triglycerides and HDL work

• Two different types of fat in the body: Cholesterol and fatty acids
• Three fatty acids with glycerol backbone are called a triglyceride
• Cholesterol and triglycerides are called lipid
• Cholesterol is very important
• How your body puts this into your bloodstream in the form of these lipoproteins.
• HDL is mainly formed within your gut
• HDL is considered the good cholesterol

[19:34 - 21:04] Closing Segment

• VLDL and LDL are apoB (Apolipoprotein B)and HDL is apoA (Apolipoprotein A)
• In the next podcast, Dr. Steve will discuss what happens when we eat too many processed carbohydrates.

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Tweetable Quotes:

“What makes you fat or what increases fat in your fat cells is the amount of carbohydrates that you eat.” - Dr. Steve Hughlett

“So that's why if you ever take like a piece of bread or a crack or something, you put that on your tongue, and you let it sit there for a while for the saliva to get into it, what happens is it all of a sudden it'll start tasting sweet. And that's because it's breaking it down into glucose.” -Dr. Steve Hughlett

“High insulin levels cause you to store fat in your body, low insulin levels cause you to burn fat out of your body for its energy.” -Dr. Steve Hughlett