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Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by klipt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:43PM (#20770591)
Seems the Maasai may also be genetically protected against high cholesterol: https://www.wired.com/2012/09/milk-meat-and-blood-how-diet-d...
Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by superpermutat0r on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:52AM (#20775650)
I'm not sure, the study has no baseline measurements. Dietary cholesterol affects serum cholesterol sublinearly. Which means that increasing the dosage couple of times won't really show.

The same trick is used by egg studies to show that additional eggs do not increase already high cholesterol.

Doing genetics is also a huge dimensionality curse. You're fitting a high dimensional object with a curve that will most certainly fit well.