On: Part I of V: An introduction to lipidology.

Episode: 20

Date: October 2018

Key Subjects:

• Mostly personal introduction to Tom Dayspring.
• Discussion on benefits of fasting:
  • Most powerful way to deplete glycogen and insulin.
  • Turn nutrient sensing organelles and molecules off.
  • Don’t want those things off indefinitely, but evolutionarily unnatural for them to always be on.
• Every cell in the body can make cholesterol.
  • The purpose of lipoproteins is not to deliver cholesterol to the cells – cells already have it.
  • Purpose is to deliver energy to cells that need it in the form of triglycerides and phospholipids.
  • Presence of cholesterol inside lipoprotein likely to provide structure to the molecule.

Key Takeaways:

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Worth Listening:

• 7/10