Seeing as the brain while being only 2% of body mass contains 25% of all cholesterol in the body, it has good reason to want to regulate cholesterol, it needs it to function.
Cholesterol is an essential component of every cell membrane and important for myriad physiologic functions. When Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD looked at the medical literature he found something quite surprising had been documented there. On average people with higher cholesterol live longer.
You can read on this here http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html if interested.
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Seeing as the brain while being only 2% of body mass contains 25% of all cholesterol in the body, it has good reason to want to regulate cholesterol, it needs it to function.
Cholesterol is an essential component of every cell membrane and important for myriad physiologic functions. When Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD looked at the medical literature he found something quite surprising had been documented there. On average people with higher cholesterol live longer.
You can read on this here http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html if interested.
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