Cholesterol is essential for human physiology, forming cell membranes, hormones, bile, and myelin sheaths.

“our lipid bilayer and our cell membranes is cholesterol and I remember thinking I was like how can cholesterol be bad for us we we literally are made out of cholesterol and uh so many of our hormones our bile our brain about 20% cholesterol Mile and sheath you know insulating our axons uh are largely uh cholesterol and saturated fat”