The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
preventing atherosclerosis if it did it would have got rid of apob hundreds of thousands of years ago because we didn't need it really after I mean we would have got rid of it in the last thousand years I think um and we wouldn't have atherosclerosis today but given that it didn't interfere with our reproductive Fitness it's of no concern to Darwin
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just because Evolution didn't care about something doesn't mean we shouldn't and the example I would use is atherosclerosis so Evolution had no interest in preventing atherosclerosis if it did it would have got rid of apob hundreds of thousands of years ago because we didn't need it really after I mean we would have got rid of it in the last thousand years I think