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How do you relate this to the study at hand? Oxysterol isn't mentioned once.

I don't even disagree or something, but your advice seems rather automatic than based.

The study used atherogenic diets as offense. So all the consensus on heart health seems to apply: LDL bad; salt bad; cholesterol bad; saturated fats bad - inflammation bad.

In mice.

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Oxysterols seem to stimulate amyloid beta formation in the liver and even in the brain directly:

> We have shown that patients with AD have increased brain levels of 27-hydroxycholesterol, which may affect the production of beta-amyloid.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16866910/

So, it's unrelated to the study at hand.

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