Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. For years that’s how we’ve been told to think of the waxy, fat-like substance in blood playing a key role in determining whether we get heart disease.
On one side, there is HDL (or high- density lipoprotein), the ‘good’ version that scoops up excess cholesterol particles in our blood vessels and escorts them to the liver, where they are broken down and removed as waste.
On the other side is LDL – or low-density lipoprotein. It sticks to the inside of our arteries forming deposits, called plaques, which can then break apart and form blockages that can
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