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ewh-110929-cholesterol-and-saturated-fats — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110929-cholesterol-and-saturated-fats. The excerpt begins at 52:25 and runs for 1 minute.

And the HDL has probably some more specific antitoxic effects where the LDL is more a delivery system of cholesterol itself. And toxins will tend to increase the HDL relative to the LDL. Toxins of most types will increase, both of them defensively, but the chlorinated hydrocarbons, radiation, estrogen, and alcohol, for example, will increase the HDL relative to the LDL because it has some more specific antitoxic effects. Now, I know you've talked about before how DHEA can actually lower LDL cholesterol.