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Reason | Q&A on How to Fight Aging

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The Effects of Oxidized LDL on Cholesterol Levels

It's likely more to do with the ox LDL being an additional source of cholesterol coming into the cell over and above what it would pick up normally. So you're, you're overwhelming the cells ability to to deal with the cholesterol that is in taking because the ox LDL is using a different set of receptors and gets taken up quite aggressively. And this is probably a consequence of oxidized LDL actually binding to a receptor that isn't for that quote unquote that is actually evolved for some other purpose. I don't know anything about lysosomal membranes, but I just plocked a photo of one in the, oh, I gave it to Alison privately. Oops, let me re-

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