#424: Is Low Cholesterol Bad For You?!

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Alan and Danny discuss the role of cholesterol in the body and claims that are made suggesting low levels of blood cholesterol are harmful to health.

Starting with the premise that cholesterol is an important molecule in the body and plays a role in many processes, discussed are two related claims:

we should avoid low cholesterol levels as it can harm our health
elevated levels of cholesterol may actually be protective against disease or mortality.

The episode also critiques claims about cholesterol being “conditionally essential” and that low LDL-C/ApoB increases risk of mortality, cancer and infection.

Show notes at sigmanutrition.com/episode424/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 424 of the podcast. I am Danny Lennon and with me of course is
0:24.9	Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today? I am good. Happy New Year. This is the first of
0:32.1	2022, I think so. Start of a new year. Yeah. First podcast in the books.
0:38.6	New Year, New Year.
0:45.4	Oh, I have a new year message from a friend to send across to you.
0:46.8	Oh, okay.
0:55.8	You should ask those guys from Sigma Nutrition to test their oxidized LDL because I know they're both proponents of polyunsaturative fat.
0:58.3	So that's your challenge for the year.
1:03.6	I want you to get an ox LDL measure before we have our next podcast episode. And then we'll reveal your results live.
1:06.3	Oh, that's amazing.
1:07.4	When did that happen?
1:09.0	This is quite a while ago.
1:10.6	I only recently came across it though,
1:12.3	so it's not a new message. This call for Alan Flanningan's L-DL is being made, and so we must see it
1:20.3	on it posted Instagram. That is it. Wow. Oh, that is, that's fantastic. I had no idea. Well, it's good to know we're on his radar,
1:31.1	you know, I'm truly our cup overflows. Your, your lipoproteins are of interest. Yeah.
1:36.5	So we must know. The reason why I play that for everyone listening is today we are indeed
1:42.1	talking about cholesterol and lipoproteins,
1:44.6	and we're specifically digging into some of the discussions around whether there's actually
1:49.6	a benefit maybe to high cholesterol or at least some detriment to having reduced cholesterol
1:54.9	levels and therefore reduced lipoprotein levels. So really what we're going to try and walk
2:00.2	through is this premise that
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