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

• 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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