Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Understand Triglycerides and where they come from
You look at your blood work and go straight to cholesterol.
You overlook triglycerides. And yet, they are often one of the first signs that your metabolism isn't managing excess energy well.
A triglyceride is transport fat. When you eat more energy than you burn, your liver packages it as triglycerides and sends it through your blood.
That is why having high levels rarely means you are eating too many eggs. It usually reflects an excess of sugar, refined flour, and alcohol more than the fat on your plate.
A little-known detail: you don't even need to be fasting for them to tell you something. A study in Copenhagen measured non-fasting triglycerides in nearly 14,000 men and women from the general population.
They followed them for an average of 26 years. Those who started with higher triglycerides suffered more heart attacks, more coronary heart disease, and more deaths than those who had them low. You can see it here.
And the risk rose in a stepped manner: the higher they were, the worse, even after adjusting for other factors.
It is an association observed in a Danish population, not proof that lowering them will extend your life. But the pattern is consistent and the measurement is cheap.
It appears on any basic blood test and usually shifts when you change what you eat and drink.
Cholesterol tells you part of your risk. Triglycerides tell you how you have been eating and drinking for the last few months.
Your 1% improvement for today.
Look for your triglycerides in your last blood test and write down the value. Use it as a reference point to compare against your next test.
This is what I cover in the Longevity Workshop and Private Longevity WhatsApp Group: In the Longevity Workshop I teach you how to read your triglycerides, and in the private WhatsApp group we work together to solve what to change to lower them.
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