Imagine your arteries as pristine, flexible highways designed to transport oxygen-rich blood smoothly to every corner of your body. When you are young, these highways are slick, wide open, and…
In cardiovascular medicine, a stent is a tiny, expandable wire mesh tube. It is used to prop open an artery that has become severely narrowed or blocked by plaque buildup,…
The liver isn’t just scrubbing cholesterol to keep your arteries clean—it is pulling it out of your bloodstream because it critically needs that cholesterol as a raw material to keep…
If you or a loved one has recently been told that you have elevated cholesterol or a buildup of arterial plaque, the word statin has almost certainly entered the conversation….
Fatty liver disease progresses through four distinct stages. It starts as a simple, silent accumulation of fat, but if left unmanaged over many years, the chronic irritation can slowly alter…
Most people think fat and cholesterol are the same thing. They aren’t. In fact, one of the biggest misconceptions about heart health is believing that eating fat simply “turns into”…
I think it was August 1997. I was wandering through the streets of Triplicane, looking for a room. That was when I happened to run into my college senior, Chidambara…