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Lipoproteins: Beyond Good and Evil I've heard that there's

At last, we're getting to both good cholesterol
the heart of the matter. and bad cholesterol...

Now...is cholesterol Mwa So does the good one
really bad? ha battle the bad one?
ha

Cholesterol

Actually, cholesterol All cholesterol
itself doesn't come in starts out the
two separate "good" same, but...

and "bad" types.

Good Bad Cholesterol ...it's classified as
Whaaaa?! good cholesterol
or bad cholesterol
according to how

it's transported.

Shut up! No need to get worked up—
Good and bad I'll explain everything. Since
are the same?! lipids don't dissolve in water

directly, they cannot exist
independently in blood.

They are dissolved lipoprotein
together with lots
of other molecules blood
to create a water-
soluble form called

a lipoprotein.

lipoprotein

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