“…and that includes the skin. Skin is probably our biggest endocrine gland. Skin is the next, and then the ovaries, testicles, and adrenals. And the HDL has probably some more specific antitoxic effects where the LDL is more a delivery system of cholesterol itself. And toxins will tend to increase the HDL relative to the LDL. Toxins of most types will increase, both of them defensively, but the chlorinated hydrocarbons, radiation, estrogen, and alcohol, for example, will increase the HDL relative to the LDL because it has some more specific antitoxic effects.”