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Typically, when you talk about cholesterol, people are afraid of it.

They're trying to avoid it.

But why does your body make so much?

It makes 3,000 milligrams every single day. The less you consume in your diet, the less the

body will make. If it was that dangerous, it doesn't make sense that the body would make so much of it.

Well, let's talk about why you need it.

First of all, you need it to make bile.

Bile is an essential fluid that helps you break down

fats. That helps you break down fats so you can extract the fat cybo vitamins and the essential fats like for example

omega 3 dHA from your food so your cells can use these healthy fats.

Then we have vitamin D which is really a hormone, but we're going to call it a

vitamin. But Vitamin D is probably one of the most important vitamins. Well, guess what? You need

cholesterol to make Vitamin D. All the sex hormones are made from

cholesterol, estrogen, testosterone, cortisol. Your brain is made up of 50% fat and 50% cholesterol.

In fact, out of all the tissues in the body that make up the organs,

the brain only represents like 2%.

Yet it uses a tremendous amount of cholesterol.

The brain synapses are lined with cholesterol.

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