- Part of the cholesterol pathway
- Every hormone in our body is made from cholesterol
- Lowering cholesterol can be taken too far, to the point that a person cannot make hormones, leading to premature aging and neurodegenerative diseases
- Your brain runs on cholesterol
- Pregnenolone is one of the first byproducts of cholesterol metabolism
- Cholesterol rises in the winter months
- Pregnenolone converts into progesterone and DHEA; both important
- Progesterone is implicated in scoliosis
- Females with scoliosis have about half of the available progesterone that those without scoliosis have
Pregnenolone
April 9, 2024
In this episode of Scoliosis World, Dr Morningstar covers the effects of the cholesterol pathway and pregnenolone in patients with scoliosis.
