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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I know.
Gotta love it.
Gotta love it when we get a father.
Yeah, we have another father in the next episode, the father of statins.
Yeah.
But his central hypothesis linking certain cholesterol-carrying lipoproteins with heart disease, once again, it met with resistance.
Understandably so, to a degree.
So first of all, he didn't have a mechanistic explanation as to why this would cause disease.
That would have to wait for a few decades.
And secondly, his sample sizes were fairly small.
They weren't prospective, meaning you couldn't draw firm conclusions about causality.
Like which came first?
Was it cholesterol or heart disease?
Did you have heart disease and that is what caused your high cholesterol?
So doubt lingered.
And things were getting heated.
The quote-unquote cholesterol wars that began in the 1950s reached new heights in the 1970s.
Oh, yeah.
Cholesterol wars.
Decades long.
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