Understanding Your Bloodwork
personalized nutrition and lifestyle interventions for cardiometabolic health.
Blood tests and cardiovascular imaging provide valuable insight into the biological processes that influence heart and metabolic health. Markers such as cholesterol, triglycerides, blood sugar, inflammatory markers, and imaging studies like coronary artery calcium scans can help clinicians understand the underlying drivers of cardiometabolic disease.
When interpreted together, these tests can reveal patterns related to lipoprotein particles, metabolic health, inflammation, and plaque development in the arteries. Understanding these patterns can help guide personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies aimed at improving long-term cardiovascular health.
Blood tests and cardiovascular imaging can reveal important insights into heart and metabolic health. When interpreted together, these markers help identify patterns related to lipoproteins, metabolism, inflammation, and plaque development. Understanding these patterns can help guide personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies to improve long-term cardiovascular health.
Blood Markers
Lipids, glucose, and inflammatory markers
Imaging
CAC scans and cardiovascular imaging
Nutrition Strategy
Guiding personalized nutrition interventions
Bloodwork
Understanding Your Blood Work: What Your Cholesterol and Metabolic Labs Mean for Heart Health
Your blood work may reveal far more about heart disease risk than just your LDL cholesterol number. When clinicians look at patterns across lipid, metabolic, and inflammatory markers, they can uncover the biological processes that drive cardiovascular disease.
Why the TG/HDL Ratio Is a Better Marker of Metabolic and Heart Risk
Triglycerides and HDL are often evaluated separately on standard lipid panels. When interpreted together, they can reveal important insight into metabolic and cardiovascular health.
Do High Triglycerides Mean Insulin Resistance?
High triglycerides are often more than a lipid problem, they can be an early signal of insulin resistance and impaired carbohydrate metabolism. Learn why triglycerides frequently rise years before changes appear in glucose or HbA1c.
Imaging
High Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score: What to Do About Diet, Statins, and Risk
A high CAC score signals the presence of atherosclerosis but does not tell us whether plaque is stable or dangerous. Understanding how statins, diet, and inflammation influence plaque biology is key to reducing cardiovascular risk.
Nutrition Strategy
Anti-Inflammatory Diet and Heart Disease: How Reducing Inflammation Lowers Cardiovascular Risk
Lowering cholesterol is only one part of the cardiovascular risk equation. Even when LDL is controlled, chronic inflammation driven by diet can continue to shape plaque progression and long-term heart risk.
Dietary Fiber and Cardiovascular Disease: Which Types Matter Most?
Dietary fiber has long been linked to better heart health. However, not all types of fiber work the same way in the body. While higher total fiber intake is consistently associated with lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, different fibers—including insoluble fiber, soluble fiber, resistant starch, and functional fibers—support heart health
The Portfolio Diet: A Food-First, Evidence-Based Approach to Lowering LDL Cholesterol
Most people trying to lower cholesterol focus on what foods to avoid. The Portfolio Diet flips that idea by combining specific foods that work together to measurably lower LDL cholesterol.
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