Andrew Huberman· PhD
when you're born your serum cholesterol levels are very low so children infants and children have very low levels of cholesterol they would have uh and I should explain one thing that's important they're not melinated yet right I mean they're they're sorry to interrupt but milin of course the the sheathing around uh neuron neuronal axons which accelerates the propagation of nerve signals and which is deficient in things like multiple sclerosis is essentially fat made up of phospholipid um and requires cholesterol for synthesis but but young children are not very well m i mean the spinal cord is M you know spinal tracks are so this is what's interesting right we would all agree that cholesterol is more important to infants and children than to anybody else right it would be the most important substrate for CNS development and yet infants and children have virtually unmeasurable levels of cholesterol