Paul Saladino· MD
now cholesterol is a fat and it cannot float around in a bloodstream so it needs to be packaged up into these things called lipoproteins
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now cholesterol is a fat and it cannot float around in a bloodstream so it needs to be packaged up into these things called lipoproteins
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Cholesterol needs to be trafficked around the body, but there is a big problem with doing so because it is not water-soluble.
the point I want to make is that you can't traffic or move around cholesterol in the bloodstream because blood appraoch makes water and so the things that move freely in the blood have to be things that are what we call hydrophilic or things that would be soluble in water so something like glucose can move around the bloodstream very easily but cholesterol cannot and therefore it needs to be packaged in something that is itself water soluble and that something is a lipoprotein