Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

healing journey. We hope you enjoy it.

Okay, we have another deep dive episode for you. This one is all on cholesterol and how it can impact our hormones, plus a lot of other things. And I'm really going to be focusing on all the different functions of cholesterol in the body. I will cover how it impacts our hormones, how our hormones can impact cholesterol. And then I'm going to dig into different things that you

want to consider when you're looking at your cholesterol levels. And with that being said,

this podcast is for informational purposes only, as always, especially when I go into lab test

results. I know it can be like a little

hairy because people often think like, oh, well, mine's not optimal or mine's high or mine's

low and they want to know exactly what to do or if I'm mentioning certain things, it could be helpful.

They want to know if it applies to them. And you just can't interpret labs without having a person to

compare it to. I think that's like the most important thing to always keep in mind. So if something

really hits home for you and you're like, yes, I feel like this could potentially be a good fit for

me. Talk with your doctor. I am linking a ton of references in the show notes for everything. So

you'll have a lot to work with if they want to see any data or science on it, hopefully they're looking that up themselves.

But if you want to bring them something and say, hey, I think X, Y, Z could be a good fit for me.

What do you think?

Here's some more information.

All that's going to be available for you in the show notes.

So let's get into this cholesterol deep dive. So what exactly is

cholesterol? It is a fat like substance that is transported throughout our bodies via the blood.

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