According to a new animal study, the amount of cholesterol in a person's bloodstream is partly controlled by his or her brain. Researchers working with mice found that a hunger hormone in the brain acts as a sort of "remote control" for cholesterol traveling in the bloodstream throughout the body. The study counters previous assumptions that cholesterol levels are solely controlled by what people eat and by production of the substance in the liver.
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