Peter Attia· MD
as i said at the very outset cholesterol is a lipid and if you remember a little bit from a chemistry class you'll know that a lipid is not water soluble it is hydrophobic as opposed to what we say is hydrophilic so things that are hydrophobic can't move in water just as you would dump olive oil into a glass of water you would quickly realize how much they repel each other so we have this totally essential thing that we have to move around the circulatory system otherwise we would die and we can't do it directly because the medium through which we need to transport it repels the thing we're trying to transport aha there's a solution we need to create a vehicle that we can transport this in and that vehicle is called a lipo protein