Studies on the influence of dietary cholesterol on cholesterol metabolism in the isotopic steady state in man.

Abstract

it can quantitatively account only for a degree of protection equal to that amount ordinarily syn- thesized in the liver, whereas the serum cholesterol remains virtually stable despite the in- gestion of quantities of cholesterol many times this value. Second, the ingestion of cholesterol could cause an increase in the rate of degradation of cholesterol to bile acids. This phenomenon