Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh

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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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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 217 The High Stakes of Cholesterol · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

It was involved a lot in, like, energy balance.

Yeah.

And we weren't just making it ourselves.

We were also getting it from our diet, which helped to free up energy that could be used for cognitive processing and social behavior.

Being able to hold on to cholesterol that we got in our diets was really beneficial, particularly because food could become scarce.

And so in some populations living in certain environments and under certain food availabilities,

traits emerged that altered the ways that our bodies dealt with cholesterol.

So for instance, it's thought that like being able to utilize fats rapidly and efficiently would have been really helpful in cold environments when you needed to keep yourself warm and have enough energy for foraging.

And so there might have been a particular pattern of cholesterol regulation that emerged in the people living under these conditions.

Interesting.

Right.

And so it's sort of thought that like the way today that we regulate cholesterol would have been very helpful in the past.

But in today's context, it's not really serving us well.

We're not faced with these same challenges most of the time.

Well, and we just also have exposure to much higher levels of dietary fats and things that we would not have had exposure to before.

Thousands, hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And so it's, again, sort of like this context-specific, something that evolved that was really beneficial under one context in modern times maybe isn't as much.

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