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Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 27/28/29 – Cardiology Deep Dives 1,2,3
Monday, 2 November, 2026
Cholesterol Lipid Hypothesis Parts I,2,3 Is cholesterol really the problem? Or is cholesterol, at least in part, responding to inflammation, dysbiosis, infection, genetics, and the metabolic environment in which it finds itself? Why do we need cholesterol in the first place? Is the cholesterol we eat the issue, the cholesterol our bodies make, the number of lipoprotein particles carrying it or genetic differences in the receptors responsible for clearing those particles? The answer, unsurprisingly, is complicated. Over the next several articles, we are going to unpack these questions and try to understand what actually drives cardiovascular disease. Coronary artery disease, or atherosclerosis, is the disease process underlying most heart attacks.... Dr. M
