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Eating fat from animal foods gives your body cholesterol that it needs to make important hormones, and it might also help keep your blood sugar and stress levels steady.

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Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses suggest that high dietary lipid levels facilitate ovary development through the enhanced arachidonic acid metabolism, cholesterol biosynthesis and steroid hormone synthesis in Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis)

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2019 Dec 14

The study found that more fat in the diet helped fish produce hormones needed for reproduction, which supports the idea that dietary fat aids hormone production.

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