If for some reason you chose to use this information for self-treatment, my recommendation would be to check with your physician as well as doing some research on your own. Be an informed patient. If you know of someone that would be interested in this newsletter, please feel free to copy it or distribute it. It is most common in the blood, brain tissue, liver, kidneys, adrenal glands, and fatty covers around nerve fibers. It helps to absorb and move fatty acids.
Cholesterol is necessary for the making of vitamin D on the surface of the skin.
It is also needed for the making of certain hormones, including the sex hormones. It sometimes hardens in the gallbladder to form gallstones. Cholesterol is found almost only in foods from animals and is constantly made in the body, mainly in the liver and kidneys. While some doctors say that levels as low as 130 are okay, it is believed by some that practice Natural medicine that levels lower than 170 can indicate a weakened or diseased liver. Total cholesterol levels are less important as a risk factor for heart disease or strokes than the total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio or the HDL to LDL ratio.