I have a bit of “bad blood” in my family. I mean, bad blood, as in heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, you know, that kind of bad blood. The other kind of Taylor Swift bad blood is beyond the scope of this blog!
Anyway, it seems the magic number was 50 for me. As I approached the age that my family members have succumbed to these negative chronic blood related illnesses, I decided to be a little proactive and go in for a medical checkup. What came back was not to my liking. Cholesterol trouble. High cholesterol by any other name is… still bad blood. I knew the results of uncontrolled cholesterol can lead to significant long-term chronic illnesses including heart disease. Even more alarming, my cholesterol reading wasn’t just my concern. It turns out my cholesterol reading was way more than what the doctor wanted to see for a patient that presents with a family history of bad blood.
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