Ayurvedic view of CTT research findings re heart disease in those with very low cholesterol

[snorts] >> Hi, my name's Dr. Uma Porrigala. I'm a board-certified physician in internal medicine and also an Ayurvedic certified Ayurvedic practitioner. And um this is a topic that um I revisit and I this is a much shorter video, but I'm revisiting it because this type of patient seems to come back over and over throughout my career and

I'm sure for many other healthcare providers and individual patients as well. Um so I'm going to be looking at the cholesterol treatment trials. It's a very well-reputed um publication. They periodically update um their uh data on looking at all these um studies on cholesterol and treatment of heart disease. And it's really helpful

information. However, um when it comes to this particular patient and it's not an insignificant population, a person with already low base very low baseline LDL cholesterol um and they get a heart attack. Um I would like to use Ayurveda to um help um dive deeper into what nuances needed. Um So um what happened to this patient?

He's 58 year-old South Asian. Again, this type of patient is not exclusive to South Asians, but I I do see it a little bit more often in South Asians. Um LDL cholesterol was really nice. It was he had a level of bad cholesterol of 69. But had a heart attack. And so um went even low

cholesterol diet. He's already on a vegetarian diet and he went on high-dose statin. LDL was even lower. Excellent, right? 40. And as three months later, he suffered another heart attack. Um so this According to this publication, one out of eight roughly one out of eight patients um who have a heart attack have baseline

LDLs below 70 or below. Um, that's huge. So, the cholesterol treatment trial list, um, is quoted a lot and a lot of conclusions are made from it that, you know, the lower your LDL the better and there's no, um, lower limit that's unsafe. Um, however, if you look at the, um, the publication, not many patients were,