[rantwasp]

sorry but this is bs and straight dangerous. cholesterol itself is not dangerous but the proteins that carry it in the blood stream are. That’s why LDL is bad and HDL is good (supposedly 2 types of cholesterol- but they’re not they’re two types of proteins). The LDL are the smaller ones that actually end up, in time, piercing the lumen (blood vessel wall) and causing inflammation. this is how your arteries narrow and this is how you eventually end up with heart disease.

so the LDL particles (by count not volume) are bad and whoever tells you otherwise is full of crap

[virtuallynathan]

“piercing the lumen” is a drastic over-simplification. We don’t know how much LDL is in a healthy lumen (the small amount of research that exists suggests its greater than the serum concentration). Much of it gets there via active transport mechanisms (transcytosis).

Also, why would an endogenously produced protein end up killing you? Seems like evolution run-amok.

[rantwasp]

haha. it’s amazing how complicated even the simplest forms of organic life are. things do go wrong all the time and there are complex mechanisms to balance things out. that being said systematic imbalance or just “wear and tear” eventually win.