Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like what is that if you have a high LDL?
Is that a snapshot in time?
How long has it been high?
Oh, these are really fun questions.
So, yeah, in general, your total amount of cholesterol and when we're measuring your total cholesterol, we're measuring all these different types of packages.
Right.
We're measuring the HDL packages.
We're measuring the LDL packages.
We're measuring all the packages.
It is going to go up as we get older.
Why?
I don't know.
Is it because our LDL receptors that are taking this up are getting less efficient or not being recycled as easily?
I don't have a perfect answer for you, but cholesterol does go up as we get older.
So that is one of the biggest risk factors for atherosclerosis in general is just age.
And we can't do anything about that.
You also asked about diet and other things that are going to influence it.
Diet can have, and not just diet, also like physical activity levels.
And what types of, especially fat, so saturated fat versus unsaturated fat versus dietary cholesterol versus how many carbohydrates you're getting.
All of that is going to affect nutrition.
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