Anyone here know enough about biology and medicinal arts ? I'm wondering if my following hypotheses are true: - cholestrol is wide range of fatties that are from relative short carbon chains like c20 up to c40+.. - cholestrol gets used in the body in order of smallest first to greatest first..(the short ones get used first, then the longer ons, till finally the longest ones get used) - cholestrol chains that are TOO long for the body to biosynthesize into something needed or usefull, stay inside the body until whatever they stick to gets metabolized (cell forms, old cell dies, gets taken out and take sthe cholestrol with it..which ofc, does NOT happen to EVERY part of the body, like the brain..) - popular belief being that working out halts cholestrol progress in that manner, so just about any food can be eaten without consequences..even the highly saturated extra long carbon chain containing foods, while in fact, the extreme long carbon chains will stay with you since they almost never get used, or are even biosynthesized into anything else.. If you have an answer to this that is not simple copy paste from another site, but rather concluded with ur own knowledge as a basis, and subsequently even examind in practice, plz tell me so.. (if all you have is copy paste or reference material, plz state source...) Thanx..
would this help from Wikipedia Cholesterol is required to build and maintain membranes; it modulates membrane fluidity over the range of physiological temperatures. The hydroxyl group on cholesterol interacts with the polar head groups of the membrane phospholipids and sphingolipids, while the bulky steroid and the hydrocarbon chain are embedded in the membrane, alongside the nonpolar fatty-acid chain of the other lipids. Through the interaction with the phospholipid fatty-acid chains, cholesterol increases membrane packing, which reduces membrane fluidity.[1
If I remember correctly, the body makes cholesterol, since this chemical is used to regulate the membrane viscosity and fluidity. A cow with fatty meat, has generated lots of internal cholesterol. One can eat low cholesterol food and still have high numbers, due to their own internal production. The cow eats only grass, which has no cholesterol, but it can make nice marbled meat. When cell cycles begin, the viscosity of the membrane will decrease. This increase in membrane fluidity allows some cationic pump reversal, which alters the internal water activity; changes protein expression. Protein conformation is connected to water activity, which impacts the degree of protein hydration. Has anyone ever tried to use high cholesterol to fight cancer, since by making the cancer cell membrane less fluid, it would make it much harder for its cell cycles to progress. Has the low cholesterol fad made it easier for cancer by helping with the needed high membrane fluidity? We have better technology and treatments for cancer, but the hype says we need to be screened due to higher incident rate; like breast cancer. Is breast cancer connected to fluid cancer cell membranes, due to lower cholesterol, since the ladies tend to go along with medical fads in higher numbers? Men tend to hold out longer until their ladies push them to go along.
Membranes? That's not all. In men, cholesterol is used to make testosterone. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/01/15/how-testosterone-is-made/ A quote from this source: "4. Through a complex ('Rube Goldbergesque') process that I’m not even going to attempt to describe, our testicles’ Leydig cells convert cholesterol into testosterone. That’s right, cholesterol is the building block of testosterone."
