there is yet another dietary pathway to heart disease, and it has nothing to do with LDL or triglycerides. If you have a family history of heart disease, tell your doctor to look at your diet and epigenetics by drawing a serum homocysteine (Hcy) level. This is a lab test that is not routinely ordered because it’s not correlated with genetics and heart disease, only with diet and heart disease. Hcy is an amino acid associated with heart disease, but it does not come from eating protein. Hcy should be completely cleared from the bloodstream and eradicated or it will build up in the blood vessel
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