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First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides
(finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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What are you talking about?
I suspect they're making an unwarranted assumption that the experimental patient ended up with high cholesterol due to excessive consumption of animal products (rather than, say, a genetic defect that would cause them to overproduce it regardless of diet) and applying some typical vegan arguments regarding livestock farming. No need to listen to them.
Where do you think dietary cholesterol comes from?
Your body makes it's own cholesterol, and so the main driver of your cholesterol level is genetics. Quote from the AMA:
https://www.ama-assn.org/public-health/chronic-diseases/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-high-cholesterol
Well, it can come from palm/coconut oil for example, it doesn't only come from animals, and vegans with familial hypercholesterolemia want you to shut the fuck up.