If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a genetically determined type of “bad” cholesterol that can significantly increase your risk for heart disease and stroke, and is often independent of other risk factors.

Your doctor doesn’t regularly test for this, even though it’s an easy test and it’s about cholesterol. A WFPB diet and lifestyle can help, however, it doesn’t impact this cholesterol marker.

Dr. Akil is going to share what Lp(a) is and what the latest science is behind managing (or reversing) it.

If you have high cholesterol and you’ve been working hard to reduce it, this may be what’s making it difficult for you to get those numbers down.

We are starting to hear more about Lp(a), but it’s still an unknown or a mystery to most.

Join Dr, Akil to learn while you have lunch (or your morning snack), and you can ask your questions after his share.