Also referred to: LDL, HDL, Hypercholesterolemia, Hyperlipidemia, Hyperlipoproteinemia

High Cholesterol, Plaque, And Coronary Artery Disease.

Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that occurs naturally in all parts of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to work properly. Your body uses cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods.

But if you have too much cholesterol in your blood, it can stick to the walls of your arteries and build up. This is called plaque. Plaque can narrow your arteries or even block them.

Special arteries, called coronary arteries, bring blood to the heart. Narrowing of your coronary arteries due to plaque can . . .

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Thankfully, actor Kelsey Grammer, best as Frasier in the sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier," is still alive and well after his recent heart attack. He told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, that he knew then he was dead from a heart attack. Kelsey Grammer told Jay Leno he was amused at the later news reports which made it sound like mild heart disease, while he knows the heart attack killed him.

Actually, at the time, his spokesman Stan Rosenfield said it was a mild heart attack, and sort of started the downplayed reporting. Kelsey Grammer said  "It felt like somebody was actually trying to . . .

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Actress Estelle Getty, who was just short of her 85th birthday, succumbed to Lewy Body Dementia. Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a disease with symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Dementia. Estelle Getty was born Estelle Scher in New York City on July 25, 1923. Getty set aside early acting ambitions to become a "housewife in Bayshore, Queens," according to the New York Times in a 1982 article. As Actress Estelle Getty, then 58, told the newspaper she thought she . . .

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Crohn’s disease, like Ulcerative Colitis (Colitis), and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS, is caused by inflammation of parts of the digestive tract. The digestive tract is the pathway food travels through in the body. This pathway is also called the gastrointestinal, or GI, tract. It goes from the mouth to the anus. IBD – Inflammatory Bowel Disease, is a common category which refers to this class of diseases and conditions.

Inflammation is the common cause in these and many other diseases.  The inflammation causes pain, swelling, redness, and heat. That’s why you have diarrhea, stomach cramps, and other symptoms. Diarrhea is the most common sign of IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, with frequent visits to the bathroom— up to 20 or more times a day. Sometimes, in addition to inflammation, . . .

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