Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh
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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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It was like 500 to 1000 milligrams per deciliter and above.
Of total cholesterol?
Of total cholesterol, yeah.
Which is like way higher than it gets for most humans.
If I saw that, I would be... When I get to the 300s, I'm like, we need to do something.
Thank you.
Oh, just wait till later.
I don't know if it's this episode or next, but...
So it was kind of like, well, yeah, enough of anything is deadly, but that's just not realistic.
This is not what we're seeing.
Later, though, he showed that even small rises, so not 500 to 1,000 range, but small rises still led to atherosclerosis-like lesions in these rabbits.
It just took longer to develop than the couple of weeks or whatever it was.
And then one last thing, the third thing that held him back was the prevailing view of atherosclerosis at the time.
When his work was being published, atherosclerosis was seen as an inevitable part of the aging process.
Interesting.
Something that took decades to develop.
And so how on earth could these rabbits, showing these atherosclerotic lesions within months or weeks of eating lots of cholesterol, how could that be a reasonable model for human disease?
It just didn't seem plausible.
Doesn't make sense.
Yep.
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