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Why didn't we evolve protections against cholesterol? Does that mean cholesterol isn't harmful after all? Why would a harmful trait be allowed to remain and be passed on?!?

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References:
1-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673602082739
2-https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/33/2825/5086122

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0:00 Can something natural like cholesterol be bad for us??
0:50 Why didn't we evolve protections against cholesterol?
2:08 Antagonistic Pleiotropy
3:41 Thrifty Genes
5:07 Adaptive becomes maladaptive
6:24 Will evolution come to save us?
7:17 Simplistic messages

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