Peter Attia· MD
cholesterol synthesis in the brain starts in utero early on Mom Supply in the little fetal brain with a lot of cholesterol but very rap rapidly second third trimester those brain cells start making their own cholesterol once a child is born there's a lot of cholesterol synthesis going on by virtually every cell that exists in the brain there's only like three of them but at a certain point somewhere between the ages of 5 and 10 the brain May has made all the cholesterol it needs