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OUTLIVE (Part 2): How to Optimize Your Diet, Sleep, and Emotional Health

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The Evolution of Cholesterol

The greatest evolutionary leapfrog we took probably came in one way or another in response to our ability to store excess energy. So fats are absolutely critical to our health, and it's more complicated than we think. You can have extra subcutaneous fat but still be perfectly healthy as long as that fat has not overflowed into your muscles, your bloodstream, your kidneys. Once that fat gets into those other places, that's where metabolic disease really escalates.

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