While cholesterol gets a bad name, it's "essential" for our bodies to function as it helps to make hormones and vitamin D among other vital processes, the doctor says. However, he warns that our livers make enough of the fat-like substance so there's no need to try and "add any more through diet".
In fact, adding more cholesterol to your body is like "adding sand to a beach", he says. "It's just not needed."
