Cholesterol: The Molecule Everyone Loves to Blame
Why Your Body Needs It and When It Becomes Dangerous
Cholesterol has spent decades being treated like a villain.
But your body makes it on purpose.
You need cholesterol to build cell membranes, produce steroid hormones, make bile acids, and support normal human biology. So why is it also so closely tied to heart attacks and strokes?
In Episode 2 of Inside Your Biology, we go inside the bloodstream to separate cholesterol itself from the particles that carry it.
We break down LDL, HDL, triglycerides, apoB, remnant particles, Lp(a), and the difference between cholesterol concentration and…
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