Biotech Values

[biomaven0]

No, it's actually real - happened in a number of early trials:

Cholesterol and violent behavior.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8002683


Observational studies don't really back this up (some say yes, some no), but you would almost certainly expect people with low cholesterol to be be more likely to be non-smokers and less engaged in risky behavior. So I think there probably is a (weak) signal here - the brain certainly needs cholesterol. So not just a case of people driven to violence/suicide by a boring diet.

Peter