Peter Attia· MD
so the apeway one or the what we call the nascent HDL has you know eight way one has phospholipids and it has what I'm going to call free cholesterol and this is a concept that you may or may not have addressed before I can't remember which is cholesterol itself as a molecule can have a fatty acid attached to it when you attach a fatty acid to a hydroxyl moiety on the cholesterol molecule you create what we call a cholesterol Ester and the cholesterol Ester is even more hydrophobic or oily than the free cholesterol because it has this additional fatty acid sticking off it which is obviously oil it's absolutely critical for HDL for the HDL maturation process to have this fatty acid attached to the cholesterol