In school, I loved stuff like this... (from Reproductive Physiology Class in 2009)
Cholesterol is THE essential building block/precursor to all major sex hormones - and a few others to boot!
And it sounds silly, but this is part of the reason I would eat tablespoons of grass-fed butter when we started thinking maybe we wanted to have a baby.
As another personal side note, my blood cholesterol at this time (nursing) is SKY HIGH (>300). But I don't see this as a bad thing. My HDL is also sky high (~100), and my triglycerides are right around 50.
Breastmilk is derived from blood...I wonder how much cholesterol she is getting!
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