Cholesterol and Your Hormones
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The Importance of Cholesterol in the Body
Cholesterol is the precursor to a lot of our hormones. It's also really important for vitamin D, which we can't synthesize without it. Cholesterol helps reduce passage of molecules into a cell or out of a cell by increasing the packing of phospholipids. We need cholesterol to make bile acids and then arterial wall repair. The liver makes bile acids out of cholesterol. In bile, it's so, so important. Bile acts like a detergent to fat. So it helps to emulsify and break it down. And that's how we absorb it properly.
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