Nutritionist Cholesterol has many important functions in the human body. Cholesterol is also the substrate from which the hormones testosterone, estrogen and cortisone are made. It is so important to our survival that our livers manufacture it.
Cholesterol is a waxy fat and blood is primarily water.
Low-density lipoproteins, LDL cholesterol, travel out from your liver to your body tissues which need it. They pick up cholesterol in the blood stream and cart it back to the liver where it is converted into bile and used for digestion. Arterial corruption, or atherosclerosis, starts as more LDL cholesterol is produced than the body can utilize. Researchers believe that LDL cholesterol becomes oxidized and embedded in arterial walls. Fortunately, atherosclerosis can be prevented and reversed.