Cholesterol is important in the human body because it

Explanation

Cholesterol is a steroid and the starting material for testosterone, oestrogen, bile salts and vitamin D, and it also sits between the phospholipids of animal membranes and regulates their fluidity. Its bad reputation comes from the deposits it forms in artery walls when the blood level is high, not from any lack of function. Triglycerides, not cholesterol, are the energy store of adipose tissue.