My bjj good morning from Temecula that's in California and Bjj is Brazilian jiu jitsu
thanks again for your assistance in trying to get more universal screening for Lp(a)
with LabCorp hopefully one day this will be part of the routine labs for all so
what Bjj is talking about is he sent me an email is starting a group or awareness of Lp(a)
you may remember those of you who have it especially probably do Lp(a) is
something that very few labs test for Quest didn't do it until they bought CHL Cleveland Health Labs
and LabCorp doesn't include it in their basic screening either now that's a problem it
reflects what's going on in the medical community they didn't know how to deal with Lp(a)
Lp(a) does respond to niacin in most cases but then there were some studies that said well
maybe it still doesn't help the reality is it does there's clearly evidence that it does but
we'll get into that argument some other time the point is it became much more
well known when Bob Harper the trainer for The Biggest Loser announced that his heart attack
happened because of Lp(a) which he got from his mom and there are a ton of families out there
who have Lp(a) passing through their family Lp(a) is simply a genetic variation of LDL
we can talk about it more later the other final comment I'll make though is that the other reason
that it's come to light again three or four years ago Bob Harper announced his heart attack was due
to it young obviously are apparently very healthy and a heart attack Lp(a) there's now been
some major progress in terms of other types of treatment there are new drugs called antisense
drugs basically what they do they go into the speaking of health literacy we'll go into a little
bit of one of our geeky bunny holes the antisense drugs go into the mechanisms of our genetics you
know how you have the DNA in the cell the DNA replicates then you get a thing called messenger
RNA and then RNA that's used as a template to create the proteins well with all of these
templates and mirror images going on if you create one of those mirror images you can stop
that process and that's exactly what the antisense drugs are they have shown incredible impact on
Lp(a) values we reported on that gosh a couple of months ago recent article coming out of
the New England Journal is it ready for prime time in terms of the antisense drugs being available
not yet do we have plenty of folks that have shared yes for example we talked about Joe Joe
shared several times on the channel and Joe's had world-class level Lp(a)'s so thank you Bjj
why wait for a disease and hope for a cure I used to be an ER doc my name is Ford Brewer
I quit ER after a few years because it was just so frustrating most of the things bringing
people into the ER are things that should have been prevented including heart attack stroke
number one cause of death number one cause of permanent disability people think that you're just
gonna have those and that they're not predictable both of those are wrong they are predictable
and you don't have to have them usually it's lifestyle lifestyle is more important than
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