> Pregnant women have extremely high cholesterol (ridiculously high).

Cholesterol levels rise during second and third trimesters, but it’s not true at all to say that all pregnant women have “ridiculously high” cholesterol. Around 24% of women who have normal range cholesterol will go over the normal range for a few months, but it’s not accurate at all to say they all have “ridiculously high” cholesterol

Here is a good overview: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4989641/

Cholesterol metabolism is related to hormones that change during pregnancy, so downstream fluctuations in cholesterol aren’t surprising. Do not mistake this for intentional evolutionary pressure to increase cholesterol.

> if evolution designed pregnant women to have high cholesterol, then cholesterol cannot be the poison it's made out to be.

This is an incredibly pseudoscientific way of thinking. Pregnancy puts many pressures on the body, not all of which are good.

Did you know that blood coagulability also rises during pregnancy, which is clearly linked to cardiac events. There is an increased risk of cardiac events during pregnancy.

Saying “X happens during pregnancy therefore X must be good” is an extremely unscientific and uninformed take. I’m not surprised it’s being leveraged by the cholesterol truthers, but it’s wrong. This is the level of reasoning that seems to appeal to people on TikTok and Twitter who consume feel-good science in 15 second clips, but it makes anyone who has read any actual research on the subject depressed at how susceptible people have become to bad science that is dangerous to their health.

do you know how many women died during pregnancy before modern times?

pregnancy tends to be a limited time thing to me and the body quickly goes back to "normal levels" after it's over. Few women are constantly pregnant.