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Your body needs cholesterol to make sex hormones

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Despite decades of aggressive dietary fearmongering, your body naturally produces massive amounts of this waxy substance because without it, you couldn't synthesize essential testosterone or estrogen.

Your body needs cholesterol to make sex hormones
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