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The Evolution of Cholesterol
Sally Kohn: You're an engineer by trade. How did you get into the cholesterol space? She says she was trying to keep from becoming diabetic, and her A1c had been in pre diabetic range for two years in a row. Her dad's side of the family is rampant with diabetes; they all got their blood work close to each other about six, seven months later,. Their cholesterol did not go up. But mine did. And so I became obsessed with trying to figure out why that was. The system in our bodies, the biological system that moves around cholesterol, the lipid system, is very comparable to a network. As a software engineer, I work on networks all