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Cholesterol | Why is it so important... especially for your HORMONES!

20 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining that cholesterol is the essential biochemical precursor for steroid hormones. The speaker states that sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) and steroid hormones (cortisol, aldosterone) are synthesized from cholesterol and emphasizes that insufficient cholesterol impairs hormone production.

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Cholesterol is super important for so many functions in our body. So our hormones, you know, when I say hormones, I can be referring to our sex hormones like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, our stress hormone, aldosterone, our blood pressure hormone. They are all made from cholesterol. Cholesterol is literally the backbone ingredient, the basic starting point to make those sex hormones, hormones and all those steroid hormones. So if you don't have enough cholesterol, you can't make those hormones properly.