Cholesterol is a flexible, fatty substance that is the precursor for all of the body’s steroid hormones, hormones that are absolutely essential for life.  Cholesterol is the raw material of our vital hormones.   The sexual hormones have a remarkable similarity in chemical structure to each other and with the original cholesterol parent from which they are derived.  These hormones determine our sexuality, control the reproductive process, and regulate blood sugar levels and mineral metabolism. This substance that we have been taught to fear happens to be the sole source for our androgens, estrogens and progesterone, and other  less well-known essential hormones.