The cholesterol myth

Post by norswap » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 12:08 AM UTC

rue wrote: post #16

electromagnetic wrote: post #8

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One thing I've found interesting in my readings is that sunscreen beyond ~SPF15 (Zinc and/or Titanium dioxide only, no benzene chemicals) are directly correlated with skin cancer. As the sales of sunscreen go up, so do the rates of skin cancer, why? #1 the main chemical used to 'protect' our skin actually has a breakdown chain to benzene, think all the fuss over Potassium/Sodium benzoate in Coke/Pepsi, but absorbed i…

> As the sales of sunscreen go up, so do the rates of skin cancer, why? Not to detract from your possibly researchable argument but A) the ozone layer is getting thinner and thinner and B) the people buying the sunscreen are not necessarily the ones getting skin cancer.

Post by carbocation » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 12:16 AM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #20

carbocation wrote: post #5

My research focuses on the human genetics of lipoproteins (casually referred to as cholesterol, though in truth they are soluble cholesterol-fatty-acid-protein-vitamin globs). I'm happy to address questions people may have on this. Though he makes some true statements, I feel that his thrust is misleading, and I'll plan to expand on this in another post. For example, you do need cholesterol to transport fat-soluble v…

So what about the potential affect a systemic inflammation might have on cholesterol mentioned in TFA? If a person were suffering from some sort of systemic inflammation (would something like Crohn's Disease count?) have an increase in cholesterol?