Imagine following nearly 13 million real people for more than 10 years just to see what cholesterol level helps them live the longest. That is exactly what Korean scientists did in a giant 2019 study. They tracked 12.8 million adults who had check-ups between 2001 and 2004, and they kept watching until 2013. More than 694,000 people died during that long stretch. The results were clear and surprising. Cholesterol and death formed a U-shape. Very low cholesterol was linked to higher death rates. So was very high cholesterol. The sweet spot for the longest life was 210 to 249 mg/dL for most adults. That is higher than many doctors call “ideal.” Younger people had a slightly lower best range, but still not the super-low numbers often pushed today. Because the study lasted so many years, reverse causality is less likely to explain the low-cholesterol danger. Reverse causality means a hidden illness might lower your cholesterol right before it kills you. With more than a decade of follow-up, early sickness cannot easily account for the extra deaths seen in people who started with low cholesterol. The pattern held across ages and for both men and women. The huge number of people—almost the entire adult population of a country—makes the findings hard to ignore. Smaller studies can be wrong by chance. This one is massive. It shows that moderately higher total cholesterol, not the lowest possible number, went with the best chance of living longer in this large group. In short, the biggest study of its kind found that cholesterol levels in the low-to-mid 200s were tied to the longest lives, and the long tracking time makes it tougher to blame the higher death rates at low levels on reverse causality alone.

On Indigenous Peoples' Day and every day, we honor the strength, resilience, and contributions of Native American communities.

Since @KathyHochul took office, New York City has refused 14,676 federal requests to hold people arrested here. The NYPD's number honored in five years? ZERO. That wasn't enough for Hochul. On May 27 she signed a law cutting off 12 police and sheriff agencies across the state from working with federal law enforcement. Sheriffs who wanted to keep dangerous people off our streets? Banned. Then @TishJames went after them. She sent the letters, ordered Rensselaer County to fall in line, and threatened the sheriffs who fought back. And @TomDiNapoli? The state's so-called fiscal watchdog keeps signing the checks for all of it. I'm an immigrant. I came here on a fishing boat at seven. I support legal immigration and I back the police. These three back neither. Nov 3: Fire Hochul. Fire James. Fire DiNapoli.

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Do you know what that the perfect environment for a virus to grow is? An Election Year. It’s Science.

At this rate, give it another month and the flu shot will be doing your taxes, walking the dog and fixing your marriage. 💉😂 Experts reveal the annual flu jab MAY help fight cancer and heart disease. 🐂 💩 MAY. The hardest-working word in modern medicine. 😂 Last week, apparently the shingles jab was helping with ageing. This week, the flu jab is taking on cancer and heart disease. Remember when the flu jab was just… for flu? Now it’s apparently auditioning for “Miracle Drug of the Year.” And the best part? “May help.” Two tiny words doing an absolutely enormous amount of heavy lifting. 😂

lowa has corn, Georgia has peaches, Idaho has potatoes. What does your state have?

They are going to tell you anything to sell this sh!t to you 🙄 What’s next… immortality?

I’ve been called an Uncle Tom and coon so much over the past couple days I decided to at least get some Halloween business out of it.