Looking at the effects of cholesterol

Cholesterol basically gums up the arteries and causes blood flow problems to occur should you have too much of the "LDL" kind of cholesterol in your system.

New research shows that higher-than-normal cholesterol levels happen because cholesterol causes a decline in the activity of a chemical called transforming growth factor, aka TGF. Now, that's not a sci-fi line form a movie.

TGF may now be a research area with growth potential since it was found that cholesterol was found to weaken the response of TGF. Oddly, statin drugs increased the activity of TGF while lowering the amount of cholesterol.