Cholesterol is a fatty acid that is naturally found in the brain, nerves, liver, blood and bile and is needed to build cell membranes, insulate nerves, and produce vitamin D, hormones, and bile acid for digestion. It even helps provide antioxidant protection when your vitamin and mineral stores are low. However, cholesterol seems to have got a bad name. In fact, Cholesterol is so crucial, in fact, that each cell is equipped with the means to synthesize its own membrane cholesterol, to regulate the fluidity of those membranes when those membranes get too loose or too stiff.

The steroid hormones, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone are manufactured from cholesterol. In addition, the adrenal corticosteroid hormones that regulate water balance through the kidneys and through cortisone and the anti-inflammatory hormone that controls our stress response, all come from cholesterol.

the liver makes all the cholesterol your body needs. But sometimes, because of our poor dietary habits and sedentary lifestyle, we produce way too much cholesterol. This can increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and stroke.

Cholesterol moves in bloodstream in the form of substances called lipoproteins. Cardiovascular risk can be assessed by measuring total blood cholesterol, as well as the proportions of the different types of lipoproteins in the bloodstream.

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