19 Scoliosis World w/ Dr Morningstar: Pregnenolone

• Part of the cholesterol pathway
• Every hormone in our body is made from cholesterol
• Lowering cholesterol can be taken too far, to the point that a person cannot make hormones, leading to premature aging and neurodegenerative diseases
• Your brain runs on cholesterol
• Pregnenolone is one of the first byproducts of cholesterol metabolism
• Cholesterol rises in the winter months
• Pregnenolone converts into progesterone and DHEA; both important
• Progesterone is implicated in scoliosis
• Females with scoliosis have about half of the available progesterone that those without scoliosis have