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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And so he narrowed it down to cholesterol.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Fascinating.
Yeah.
And so on the surface, Anichkow's results showing that a diet high in cholesterol led to atherosclerosis-like lesions, that's some pretty compelling stuff to our modern eyes.
Yeah.
In reality, it did not resonate with the scientific community of the time.
It never does, does it, Erin?
It never does.
That's okay.
You know, like there were three main reasons for this hesitance.
Okay.
So the first was that when other people tried to replicate his results in different animals, no dice.
It wasn't happening.
Okay.
Even when Anichkow himself tried with a dog, he could not produce the lesions.
And so he reasoned that it might be because dogs, as omnivores, are more accustomed to eating cholesterol-rich diets and so have evolved to excrete or convert excess cholesterol.
Oh, interesting.
You turned out to be right about that, which is cool.
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