If you had dangerously low levels of cholesterol in your body, what could be a potential side effect?
a)increased levels of FSH
b) all of these
c) decreased cortisol production
d) increased levels of GnRH
Answer: All of these.
Dangerously low levels of cholesterol in the body affects the production of steroid (cholesterol derived) hormones like cortisol and hence there will be decreased levels of cortisol in blood.
FSH and GnRH are polypeptide hormones and hence their synthesise is not affected. But due to decreased levels of estrogen and progesterone (as they are steroid hormones), there will be positive feedback to the hypothalamus and pituitary leading to increased production and secretion of GnRH from hypothalamus and FSH from pituitary.
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