Simon Mills
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Dec
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Cholesterol is part of a range of fats the body has.
Most of the fats that are in the body come from the food and they come in as heavy fats, shall we say.
And what the digestion does is it strips down the heaviness and it becomes more what we call high-density lipocyte HDLs.
My tongue is twisting around it.
And cholesterol is sort of in the middle of that as one of the elements within that spectrum of fats.
Cholesterol is actually secreted by the liver for very good reasons.
It helps with all sorts of things.
It's the basis of some of our hormones.
There's all sorts of reasons why we need cholesterol.
I sometimes have referred to in the past as the tiger in the tank, that it sort of helps to fire up some of our get-up-and-go.
And if we were physically active during the day, working on the land or whatever, you need a certain amount of cholesterol to motor that.
We're sitting in chairs and cholesterol becomes increasingly a problem.
We have a high-fat diet that tends to put in more of it, and the point is that many of us, our cholesterol levels increasingly rise, and that is a risk factor, as we know, for cardiovascular disease.
which we said was still one of the biggest killer.
So cholesterol is up there as a risk factor.
And so the usual thing that a doctor will do is to hand you something, a statin basically, that will reduce your cholesterol levels.
They also know that there's more pushback on that prescription than almost anything else because the word is out that statins can do this, that or the other.
interfere with your muscle strength and all the rest of it, give you little aches and pains.
You know, most people have statins as a problem, but the impact of statins is still modest in terms of the overall scheme of things.
You know, the numbers of people's lives it saves is probably fairly minimal.
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