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Apr 2023
41m 21s

What Do Your Cholesterol Numbers Mean?

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.
About this episode

One of the blood tests our clients will often bring to us in nutrition consultations is a lipid panel with three or four different cholesterol numbers and they don’t really understand what they mean. Today, we want to empower you by sharing information on what those numbers stand for, what cholesterol does in the first place, why your numbers might be high, and how you can use nutrition to get and keep your numbers in a good range.

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