Cholesterol plays an important role in the body's nervous system and is vital to normal brain function, including signaling, synaptic plasticity and learning and memory . It is found in the cells in the body.
Cholesterol is abundant in the tissue of the brain and nervous system. Myelin is the cholesterol which covers nerve axons to help conduct the electrical impulses that make movement, sensation, thinking, learning, and remembering possible,
Sleeping enables our brain to make more cholesterol, and that's why sleeping is good for our memory and learning capabilities.
