History tells us that steroids are made from cholesterol?

where do they get all that cholesterol, from people?

When steroid hormones are synthesized in your body they are produced from cholesterol.

However, as far as industrial production goes, plant sterols are normally used. These molecules are similiar to cholesterol in structure, but huge amounts of them can be cheaply produced from soy beans and then altered to have the same structure as human androgens.

Also I steroids are not technically the same as cholesterol. Cholesterol is one molecule, and steroids are different molecules. They are therefore not the same thing although they both contain a sterol ring structure.

cholesterol is not fat...

anyway, cholesterol is a functioning unit of our body, and technically steroid hormones can be made from cholesterol, but not in the colloquial sense of the term.

the carbon makeup of steroid hormones is derived from that of cholesterol. the cholesterol you eat is technically the same thing, being made out of the same elements, but is not the correct structure and therefore does not function as a hormone. your body deconstructs then reconstructs these pieces to make a functioning hormonal unit.

steroids are hormones, and this is the medical basis for their function. a synthetically made steroid does not need to be harvested from humans, but can be made in a lab, packaged nicely and given to you as a pill.

steroid hormones include female and male sex hormones, metabolic hormones etc. the colloquial term for steroids is that stuff that makes your muscles bigger, but that is just one type of steroid, and there are many others that are medically functional.

so to put it simply, yes steroids are technically cholesterol, but not the EXACT SAME cholesterol that is stated on the back of your bigmac box.

i'm pretty sure chemistry would tell us that type of info. Not history.. also I never heard that and don't believe it. How could fat be a drug?