Phytosterols are more atherogenic and prone to oxidation than cholesterol.

“and again they can so this is an it's sort of an example of that desol point earlier where you can lower cholesterol but if you're really raising desol too much it can be more atherogenic than cholesterol in the first place so desol has shown up twice today it showed up in a good sense and in a bad sense so too much of it if you're using a drug that blocks the enzyme that comes after it was the thing that was producing too much atherosclerosis in the 60s too little of it could be a marker of two uh too little cholesterol synthesis in the brain and that can be a whole problem on in of itself”