>You need to be brought up to date: only oxidized cholesterol is
>dangerous. Lowering your cholesterol raises your risk of cancer and
>other "diseases." Thus, what you really want to do is to make sure you
>don't eat oxidized cholesterol and also that you don't eat foods that
Very low cholesterol is rather a sign that cells use cholesterol for
new cell synthesis faster than liver can provide it, not being a
reason for the high cell division speed.
Low cholesterol feed from liver would rather slow down cell division
since all new cells do need cholesterol for stiffening the cell walls,
like carbon function in iron to make steel, not soft carbon free iron
or too rich in carbon.
Marshall Price - 26 May 2006 13:09 GMT
I think you're confusing cell membranes (also called "plasma membranes")
with cell walls. Plant cells have walls (outside their plasma
membranes), which contain cellulose, which makes them rigid.
Animal cells don't have walls, just cell membranes. (And various
membranes inside, too.)
Cholesterol is a building block of steroids, which are hormones. I
think it is also converted to vitamin D by the action of sunlight on the
skin.
I don't think it has anything to do with cell membranes or cell
division, though -- but I'm willing to learn!
(This doesn't mean I agree with montygram, though.)
>>You need to be brought up to date: only oxidized cholesterol is
>>dangerous. Lowering your cholesterol raises your risk of cancer and
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> like carbon function in iron to make steel, not soft carbon free iron
> or too rich in carbon.

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Marshall Price - 26 May 2006 13:22 GMT
Oops. I spoke too soon.
I just noticed cholesterol is needed for bile acid synthesis, too.
Don't know (yet) about cell membranes, but learning quick. :-)
>>You need to be brought up to date: only oxidized cholesterol is
>>dangerous. Lowering your cholesterol raises your risk of cancer and
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> like carbon function in iron to make steel, not soft carbon free iron
> or too rich in carbon.

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