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Comment on First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides

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Beacon@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What are you talking about?

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- nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  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.
  
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- jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Where do you think dietary cholesterol comes from?
  
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  - 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    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.
    
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  - Beacon@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Your body makes it's own cholesterol, and so the main driver of your cholesterol level is genetics. Quote from the AMA:
    
    "Primarily, your cholesterol profile is genetic."
    
    https://www.ama-assn.org/public-health/chronic-diseases/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-high-cholesterol
    
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