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What Does Bad Cholesterol Do to You?

When do much LDL or bad cholesterol circulate in your blood, it can form deposits on the arteries that supply blood to the heart and brain. This will gradually lead to a hard plaque on the artery walls making them thick and inflexible. If this buildup is so great that there is a blockage on these arteries, one could get heart attacks and strokes - and there's no good way to spin either one of those results.

What Does Good Cholesterol Do to Help?

It carries the bad cholesterol back to the liver where it is passed out from the body. It also slows the buildup of the plaque on the arterial walls.

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