@drmohammedalo: 🚨 Your LDL guidelines are lying to you. “Under 100 is acceptable” is not good enough. It is too little, too late. “But the data says otherwise.” 🫀 Below an LDL of 60 mg/dL, plaque does not slow down. It stops progressing completely. Over 20 million person years of follow up data confirm this floor exists. 🩺 I am a cardiologist. I have patients whose arteries stopped accumulating plaque the day they crossed that threshold. That is the real story. 💓 Here is what the science actually says: ✅ Every 1 mmol per liter drop in LDL cuts major cardiac events by 22%, no matter your starting point. ✅ The lower the LDL, the less disease. All the way down to 60 mg/dL. ✅ If you have one risk factor, age over 45, diabetes, high blood pressure, or family history, your LDL target is under 70. ✅ High risk patients need under 55. 🔬 This is not about hitting an arbitrary lab number to satisfy a chart. It is about starving atherosclerosis of its fuel source. LDL is the raw material plaque is built from. Take away the material, and the disease has nothing left to build with. ⚠️ The question is no longer “what is a normal LDL.” The question is “what LDL actually stops disease progression in my arteries.” ❤️ Bottom line: an LDL under 100 is not a finish line. It is a starting point that still allows plaque to grow. Get your number checked. Know your risk factors. Ask your doctor what your real target should be, not the outdated one. This is why anyone with a family history of heart disease needs to pay attention. Waiting until your LDL is “acceptable” by old standards is waiting too long. Full breakdown of the data, the trials, and the threshold in my complete blog: https://dralo.net/blog/ldl-cholesterol Dr. Alo, America’s Cardiologist #Cardiology #HeartDisease #HeartHealth #CardiovascularHealth #LDLCholesterol #Cholesterol #Atherosclerosis #PreventiveCardiology #LifestyleMedicine #MetabolicHealth

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