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The molecule your body makes anyway, even if you never eat it.
means A waxy, fat-like substance in your blood and cells, used to build cell membranes and make hormones, that becomes a health problem only when the wrong kind piles up in your arteries.
from Coined from Greek chole (bile) and stereos (solid), because it was first identified in the 1800s as a solid, waxy substance isolated from gallstones; the chemical '-ol' ending marking it as an alcohol was tacked on later once its structure was understood.
- not a fat
- it is a waxy steroid alcohol, chemically
- liver's job
- liver makes roughly 80 percent of your supply
- HDL vs LDL
- same molecule, different delivery trucks, not good or evil
- hormone precursor
- builds estrogen, testosterone, vitamin D, cell membranes