Ep 217 The High Stakes of Cholesterol
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Listen to Love Trapped on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The firsthand account for this episode features a story involving the death of a family member. Some listeners might find this upsetting, so please listen with discretion. Hi, I'm Tori and I have familial hypercholesterolemia. I think growing up, I always knew my dad was different because he like walked with a limp and he spoke weirdly. He couldn't like write or do anything, but I didn't know why. And then I remember when I was 10 years old, my mom requesting that I get my cholesterol checked at a doctor's appointment. And they're like, she's 10. I think it was when they sat me down and told me that my dad had had a heart attack, which turned into a stroke when I was a baby.
And so that's why. Things were a little different. And then that the same thing happened to his father. His father was 45. My dad was 47 when he had his heart attack. And then they told me what causes it and why they're worried that I could have it. When I was 14, my cholesterol was 232, which not good. And they told me like, oh, diet and exercise come back in a year. And it was 231. And so we were like, this is something more. It's not just lifestyle. But then the pandemic happened and there was like so much going on. But I finally got like tested again. And they were like, we can't put you on statin. Unless you have a geneticist prove that this is something. So I had to go to a geneticist and I have a fun little chart that's like, she's missing something.
That's now what I live with. I'm on statin for the past two years. My cholesterol is 197. Still a little high, but... Last July, I was taking a nap and I got like shook awake by my brother-in-law and I hear like sobbing in the background. And I remember being told we have to go to the hospital right now. And I checked my phone and there's a text from my mom that says your sister's heart stopped and the name of the hospital they were at. And so we speed over there. And when we get there, the chaplain tells us that there was nothing they could do. She was only three weeks away from her 26th birthday. It was kind of a huge shock and kind of be like, oh, this is real. this is like real, real, you know? So yeah, that's something that I live with and the constant back of my mind.
I don't really know how to talk about it unless it's like, fun fact, my DNA is missing, you know. But it always comes up where I'm like, oh, I don't eat red meat. Oh, I can't have that. I can't do this. I have to take my pills. I have a plethora of pills that I take every morning and night. For a bit, my twin had to wear a heart monitor because they now have AFib. I bedazzled it for them.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–7:57
2
What is familial hypercholesterolemia and how did Tori’s story illustrate it?
7:57–28:30
3
Why are you hearing a two-part series on cholesterol and what will each episode cover?
28:30–53:03
4
What is cholesterol at a molecular level and why do animals need it?
53:03–1:08:18
5
How does the body transport cholesterol using lipoproteins (VLDL, LDL, HDL)?
1:08:18–1:10:59
Speakers
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