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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Cholesterol wars.
More than salt wars.
Honestly, I would say more contentious than salt worse.
Interesting.
In my reading of it, yeah.
Tell me all about it, Erin.
Yeah.
Okay, so while some physicians and scientists had grown convinced that high blood cholesterol caused heart disease, others argued that it was the other way around, and they took issue with high cholesterol.
Where do you draw the line?
What does high mean?
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
So in medicine, one common cutoff for deciding this is 95%.
So, for example, if 95% of people have cholesterol less than a particular value, anything above that is considered abnormal.
Mm-hmm.
The problem with this is that you're assuming any cholesterol value less than 95% is normal, non-pathogenic.
But average doesn't always equate to normal.
In the 1940s, 95% of the U.S.
population had blood cholesterol below 280.
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