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Your body gets rid of cholesterol mainly through a cleanup system in the liver—since cells can't break cholesterol down, they send it to the liver to be removed.
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Clinical and pathophysiological evidence supporting the safety of extremely low LDL levels-The zero-LDL hypothesis.
Narrative Review
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2018 Mar-AprThe study shows that the body mainly removes cholesterol through a specific liver pathway, and when this works well, even very low cholesterol levels are safe. This matches the claim.
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