Why Serum Triglyceride Levels Matter | Dr. Robert Lustig

Triglycerides are a type of fat the body uses to store and transport energy. And while they’re often lumped in with cholesterol, triglycerides are a unique lipid with major implications for your health.

🎞️ In the reel, @roblustigmd shares in a nutshell why a serum triglyceride test is a helpful indicator of liver health, which can be an indicator of overall health. Here’s more info 👇

Triglycerides play an essential role in your daily metabolic functions. They allow your body to bundle up a raw energy source (fatty acids) into an easily unlocked form.

⚠️ But when your triglyceride levels run too high (aka hypertriglyceridemia), they are a danger to your metabolic health (1).

🔬 The research

A 2021 study found that those with high triglycerides were 53% more likely to have heart attacks and other cardiac events (2).

A 2020 study found that high triglycerides were linked to both heart disease and all-cause mortality (3).

High triglyceride levels are also associated with several other metabolic illnesses and risk factors, including obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, and Type 2 diabetes (4).

🥯 How carbohydrates play a role in triglycerides:

When you eat carbohydrates, they are broken down by your intestines into glucose—a simple sugar that powers your cells.

This glucose travels to your liver, where it is either released into the bloodstream or stored on-site as glycogen.

Any excess glucose is used to build fatty acids, which are either directly released into the bloodstream or packaged into triglyceride molecules and released as VLDL particles (5).

This means a direct relationship exists between your carbohydrate intake and triglyceride levels. More carbs means more glucose, which means more fatty acids and, ultimately, more triglycerides in your blood (6).

✅ What you can do to lower triglycerides:

- Reduce total carbohydrate intake
- When you do eat carbs, choose those lower on the glycemic index

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[christopherlayug]

I am a medical technologist and he is telling the truth. I salute you dr lustig. I studied my course for years and i became diabetic. I can’t help myself until I found your videos on youtube and now I dont take any medicine. Just eat natural food, fasting and exercise. I feed my gut to protect my liver and support my brain. Thank you so much.

[enyceofnyc]

The more I watch Lustig the more I appreciate how he explains things and the less I understand why more doctors aren’t like him.

[sulimanessopmoga]

HI Dr, please note I Weighed 164 kgs on 17 December 2020. I presently weigh 92 kgs. All because of you and Dr Eric Berg also Dr Pradeep Jamnadas, Dr Nadir Allie.

[Ditto]

I’ve only been watching this knowledgable man for three days and I’ve already dumped sugar, dumped coffee, started drinking green tea and hibiscus tea and going for a walk everyday. I still look like **** but I’m hopeful! ❤

[m.bird.]

I have low/healthy triglycerides, but still have subcutaneous belly fat from cortisol. I hate it and can't lose it with (very high stress series of events occurred last few years) but I guess that's the healthiest thing my body could have done. No diabetes or insulin resistance. Thank you body, we will get through this.

[WhirledPeas]

Dr Lustig is the man you want to listen to if you’re concerned about diabetes. If you are not, probably you REALLY should listen.

[AllieinCali]

I don't drink alcohol and have elevated triglycerides. It's sugar! I'm working to get sugar out of my diet. It's such an addictive property and it's in EVERYTHING.

[maureengreen]

EVERY WORD FROM YOUR MOUTH IS WISDOM WHICH ONLY CAN BRING HEALING. BLESS YOU FOR SHARING!

[jon-marcyaden]

Extremely important information. Thank you!

[motomyrtle]

Just diagnosed with fatty liver (NAFDL). I've had high triglycerides for 25 years and my doctor never told me to watch carbs and sugar, he just put me on a statin!! Dr. Lustig is the man with the answers to what ails society in the USA.

[Sirjohn]

He is amazing dr doctor and also he was telling ppl stay away from sugar long time it been but very less ppl listen good stuff

[Zakarias-bg]

You are the best. I always learn so much from you.

[spp]

Fructose can be metabolized by the gut microbiome and and intestines (~20%), Liver metabolizes about 40%, and about 40% goes into general circulation, many cell types can process fructose. That said, unless your facing prolonged starvation, eliminate or minimize fructose for optimal energy.

[gbjvbql]

Thank you for your video. I’m getting your book as soon as it comes out in May. And I’m going to give one to my Dr.

[delta_bluesontwitch]

Not always. Chronic high triglycerides can occur in people consume no alcohol and unremarkable fructose.

[andrewromano-fwvp]

I'm on keto carnival a diet 2 and a 1/2 years lost. Forty five pounds kept it off jim everyday golf, archery yoga walk four miles couple of times Per week and I work part-time.
I believe in the keto carnivore diet which I eat three Quarters of a time a day plus vitamins

[btudrus]

fructose/alcohol/glucose will also lead to high cholesterol/LDL-C.
It all comes down to mitochondria not being able to "burn" the substrate for energy, spilling out citrate out of mitochodria / into the cytosol.
Citrate then gets converted into AcetylCoa.
Acetly-Coa is either a substrate for de novo lipogenesis OR it get converted into HMG-Coa and all down to cholesterol....

[andrewromano-fwvp]

In 2011 I was prediabetic. I had rashes under my arms associated with diabetes now at 67 years old. I live and believe the keto carnivore diet but I like ice cream. I only have a little bit. I don't smoke and I don't drink.

[marclement]

Just make sure you include vinegar in your diet whenever you eat carbs ❤

[ciskokidd]

Is this test, now available, to the general public through your PD? What to ask /demand for?