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First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides
(finance.yahoo.com)
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Why would you lower cholesterol?
The body literally makes it because you need it. People with high cholesterol live longer…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11901585/
Youd wanna lower arterial plaque so cholesterol doesnt get stuck?
An arterial calcium scan is the best indicator for heart disease etc.
Not cholesterol.
I have high cholesterol. I can send you some if you want. Promise it will make you live longer, it says so on this lemmy comment...
Is it butter or olive oil? I want to taste good when I die
For what?
I don't think that's really a conclusive study. It only focuses on people who are already 80 or older and ignores the majority of people who suffer from cardiovascular issues that don't make it to their eighties because of it.
From this study you could also conclude that people who have a natural resistance to high cholesterol live longer.
Plaque forms when cholesterol lodges to the walls of arteries. This happens at a greater rate when you have more lower density cholesterol in your blood.
But calcium buildups are formed from clacified plaque, which is made from cholesterol.....
If all forms of high cholesterol were really beneficial Americans would modern day Methuselahs.
You might not need cholesterol. But that's what brains are made out of.
Lol, so your claim is that people with excessive cholesterol levels require it because they are making more brain.....?
No is claiming you shouldn't have any cholesterol in your blood, just that there isn't reason to have an elevated amount.
If your body actually needed the excess lipids being produced it wouldn't be saturated in the blood, it would be getting used.
This is where cognitive dissonance takes people. He's less interested in his theory's predictive power than he is in its ability to distract him from reality.
Your body makes shit, too. Don't eat shit, dummy. That isn't reason enough to conclude it is safe to eat.
I didn't say to eat the cholesterol. Eating cholesterol isn't the primary driver of blood cholesterol levels. Saturated fats are.
Maybe yours, but...
I'm sorry to inform you that you have fallen for online propaganda. Cholesterol definitely is bad for you.
No dude, you're WAAAAAAY overstating what that paper says.
You need to reach out to the scientists to let them know! You could save lives with your insight!
While single study like this is far from conclusive, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that a diet of mostly minimally processed plant oils and animal fats would result in better longevity than the typical Western diet comprised mostly of the “hateful 8”.