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

Okay.

So cholesterol itself is a type of lipid molecule.

And we think of lipids as fats.

Technically fats are just triglycerides, but whatever.

Think of them as fats.

And it's specifically a type of lipid called a sterol, like cholesterol.

Okay.

Cholesterol is just a string of carbons and hydrogens and one oxygen that's formed in these little rings.

There's like four rings together.

So it's a pretty rigid molecule.

And cholesterol is an essential molecule for all animal life.

And really, nearly all kinds of life on Earth need things like cholesterol.

So plants, they don't make cholesterol, really, but they do make a whole bunch of other very similar compounds called phytosterols.

Phytosterols.

Phytosterols?

Yeah.

Anyways.

I'll accept both.

Thank you.

And fungi make their cell membranes out of something called ergosterol.

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