VeeEnn,
The truth of the matter I can not argue what mankind does not know.
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Profound words.
However, how do you/does one know what mankind does not know? Iāve found that trying to keep up with what is known (by people who have good reason to know) ā¦ even in a relatively limited field and one that Iām interested in such that I apply a fair amount of time and effort to try doing just that (cardiovascular pathophysiology, for but one example) ā¦ leaves me way behind. Wouldnāt a person only know something had been unknown (either to themselves or Mankind) after it becomes known?
My personal quote on the old TMF profile page was āThe more I learn, the less I seem knowā. For good reason.
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So this very morning an example of Life imitating TMF cropped up. Sat down to breakfast with dh after my session of Z2/MAF/ ASCVD mitigation training plus some flexibility, stability and muscle hypertrophy work and he came up with a ādid you knowā¦ā and I didnāt. Specifically heād been listening to Gardenerās Question Time BBC Radio 4 and a topic on tomatoes came up. I hadnāt known that putting a banana peel in a paper bag with a green tomato helped it ripen.
So I countered with āDo you knowā¦ā and it was concerning that pan species consistency with longevity and XX chromosomes in mammals mentioned in the thread on Menās Health Crisis and that the opposite (and different nomenclature with birds). He did not.
I started thinking some more and got to wondering about non human primates and ASCVD as itās not a common feature in companion animals. Now I know that they do develop it in captivityā¦my daughter works with the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and the Great Ape projectā¦but wondered if the mechanism was similar. In my meandering this far, I stumbled across this article. I actually DID know the bulk of this ā¦ why I specifically requested an Lp (a) and Apo-b lipoprotein test last year (albeit a late-to-the-party insight 
) and why Iām as confident as needs be that my ASCVD is a manifestation of genetic polymorphisms inherited from my mum as opposed to a maybe future discovery thus far unknown to Mankind.
Here you go. Not the sort of information that cholesterol denialists tend to discuss (ā¦or know about?
?)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/ATV.0000000000000147
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