Tokelauan populations consuming high saturated fat do not have higher rates of heart disease compared to Pukapukans, suggesting LDL cholesterol may not be a primary driver of cardiovascular disease.

“there are many many examples of people with cholesterol levels that are essentially equivalent to mine living in the natural world that don't have rates of heart disease that are high at all in fact they have vanishingly small amounts of cardiovascular disease with levels of LDL cholesterol that are essentially equivalent or even higher than mine who am I talking about there's been a number of studies on people living in the pollen ATS and you'll love the names here the toal and the puka pukin what we find is that the toal these people are essentially Neighbors in the Polynesian ATS the tokens eat significantly more saturated fat predominantly from coconuts than the puka pukin not surprisingly their LDL and total cholesterols are about 20 to 30 milligrams per deciliter higher but they don't have more heart disease than the puka pukin in fact both the puka pukin and the tokal Owens have vanishingly low rates of heart disease imagine that not related to the amount of LD l or total cholesterol in their bodies probably because”