Understanding Triglyceride to HDL Ratio

If I could give anyone a takeaway, even just from this part of the

conversation so

far, it would be to look at your most recent

blood test and look at a

ratio that you're not gonna get from the blood test, but you are gonna get the two

components of it, which is take the triglycerides number-

Yeah

... you're gonna have been given your

triglycerides in milligrams per deciliter,

divide that by the HDL number-

Yeah

... which is also gonna be in milligrams per

deciliter, and that ratio

is going to be the single best value for understanding your

risk of not only heart disease, but even insulin resistance.

Mm-hmm.

Where in a Caucasian cohort, if your number is less than

1.5, that's a good sign that you're doing fine.

If it's above, that's a warning.

Yeah.

If it's higher and higher, th- up to three to four,

then be really concerned.

The lower the triglyceride to HDL ratio is, the better