Dr. Arddis Functions of Cholesterol and Health
First, before I dive into what medical doctors are going to recommend to you, I want to take from a PowerPoint that is already online at Slideserve.com what is summarized to be some of the functions of cholesterol. Now, this is just one slide from the presenter who did this, but I thought it was a very quick summary of what are the functions of cholesterol for your health. Why did God or Mother Nature make your body make cholesterol?
Powerpoint Authors: Dagmar Smětalová is a student and researcher in Molecular Medicine at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, who completed her PhD between 2016 and 2020. Tamara Franková is a researcher (along with colleagues Smětalová and Dagmar) who has presented on cholesterol biosynthesis and the molecular structure of cholesterol
Functions of Cholesterol – Cell Membranes
Number one, functions of cholesterol for health is required to build and maintain cell membranes. Did you know you can’t make any cells in your body? New ones, damaged, those with cancer, those that are infected. Your body always lays down new cells. Did you know your cells need cholesterol to do that?
Functions of Cholesterol – Manufacturing of Bile
Did you know functions of cholesterol for health aids in the manufacturing of bile, which helps digest fats? So, you can’t digest fat without cholesterol to make bile in your liver stored in your gallbladder. Did you know that functions of cholesterol for health is important for the metabolism of fat-soluble vitamins that include vitamins A, vitamins B, vitamin E, and vitamin K? Did you know you needed cholesterol to do that?
Functions of Cholesterol – Steroid Hormones
Did you know that functions of cholesterol for health is the major precursor for the synthesis, the manufacturing of vitamin D and of the various steroid hormones, which include cortisol, your stress hormone, aldosterone in the adrenal glands, and even your sex hormones like progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone? Did you know you needed functions of cholesterol to even make progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone? Well, how many people do you know struggle with these hormone imbalances when, in fact, many of them might be on cholesterol-lowering drugs or on low-fat diets, lowering healthy cholesterol production, leading to worsening hormone imbalance? Now, if you know this, did you know that there’s a direct correlation to lowering your cholesterol and erectile dysfunction and lower sex drive? Why? Testosterone drives both, and you need cholesterol to produce it.
Functions of Cholesterol – Brain Synapses
Did you also know that they have stated down here that further recent research shows that functions of cholesterol for health has an important role for the brain synapses as well as in the immune system, including protecting against cancer? Well, if that’s true, what do you think happens when you reduce cholesterol with statin drugs or lower the fat content in your diet? Now you’re producing less cholesterol in the body, and you’re increasing your risk of cancer, based on this summary.
Cholesterol. Smětalová Dagmar Franková Tamara. Structure
