When an individual's diet shifts from glucose to fat as a primary energy source, cholesterol plays a crucial role in transporting lipids via lipoproteins.

“if you and i choose to be powered less by glucose and more by fat then that has to do a lot with cholesterol why because cholesterol is the cargo that's carried on these lipoproteins you just described those lipoproteins i know we hear about them all the time in the context of carrying cholesterol but that's not the only lipid they carry they carry triglycerides which we are powered by we are powered by fatty acids those same fatty acids that are sterified into these triglycerides as part of their cargo”