I know that lowering cholesterol, with drugs such as statins, tends to lower the protective steroids like progesterone and DHEA. But would using a statin (or another cholesterol lowering strategy) also lower the more "end metabolites" of the hormonal cascade, such as cortisol and estrogen? It seems that even estrogen derives from cholesterol
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