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#21 - Tom Dayspring, M.D., FACP, FNLA – Part II of V: Lipid metrics, lipid measurements, and cholesterol regulation

The Peter Attia Drive

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Is Colestral Required in Steroid Hormones?

The starodgen ssues need collestral to make their steroid hormones, be they reproductive organs or orodinal quortex. In a physiologic person who's not in one of these acute situations, the edrinal gland just makes all the callestral it needs. That's why you have h d ls. H d ls have a half life of five days. One of the reasons they circulate for five days is it's a floating plasma reservoir of callestral for tissues that might actually need callestra. No other cell does, except those sterodgenic tissues.

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