Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 218 The Lowdown on Statins · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

How these strategies work.

And then I want to wrap up by giving us all like a reminder of why lowering cholesterol is so important by looking at atherosclerotic heart disease kind of across the globe.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

And so the first thing to know is that while statins are, because of how long they've been around and because of how strong the evidence is, that they are extremely effective, not just at lowering that cholesterol, but actually at preventing heart attack, stroke and death.

They are a mainstay of therapy today for cholesterol management.

But they are not the only thing that we have.

And the first thing that is always recommended across the board is diet and lifestyle changes.

And the thing is that we do have really decent data as far as like nutrition data goes, which we all know is is rough.

Yep.

We do have decent data that lifestyle changes can work for a lot of people.

But the problem is that we also know that your total cholesterol and your LDL cholesterol, so the packages of LDL cholesterol, are not entirely driven by your diet.

They're not entirely driven by how much exercise you're getting, right?

There are a lot of different things that go into determining what your cholesterol levels are and whether they are high or whether they are low.

And one of the big things is our genetics.

You talked in last week's episode, Erin, about familial hypercholesterolemia.

This is one or really kind of like one group of disorders that can seriously contribute to elevated cholesterol, especially LDL cholesterol.

But it's not the only one.

There are a whole bunch of other genetic contributions, whether that's multiple genes or things that we don't even know yet, right?

Genes that we haven't even discovered yet that are associated with the ratios and amounts of cholesterol.

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