Low vitamin D/High Cholesterol?

Question

I have seen that vitamin D and cholesterol both have the same precursor. I was wondering if your body is not converting the 7-dehydrocholesterol into vitamin D due to lack of UV light, would any excess then be turned into more cholesterol therefore increasing your cholesterol levels?

Answer 1

You have just stumbled on to another good reason not to artificially lower your cholesterol levels. Vitamin D is actually a hormone that helps prevent cancer among other things. You are just looking at it backward. Cholesterol is needed for your body to manufacture vitamin D. Any increase in cholesterol from lack of sunlight would be small and of no importance. Your body produces the amount of cholesterol that it needs. If you lower your cholesterol any way except with drugs, your body just makes more. It is that important. Lowering it with drugs causes more problems then you could ever imagine. This website is devoted to all of those problems. www.spacedoc.net

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