High cholesterol and blood clotting are evidently linked to one another. In addition to the way cholesterol builds up in the arteries, a research conducted by the Michigan State University (MSU) has found an additional phenomenon regarding the behavior of cholesterol, when there are uncontrolled levels of cholesterol in the blood.

It is well known that when there are high cholesterol levels in the blood, excess cholesterol tends to build up within artery walls, turns into plague that hardens and narrows the arteries. This dangerous condition also called atherosclerosis, caused when no attempts are made to lower cholesterol, interferes with blood flow to the heart and brains and can often lead to serious health problems such as heart disease and strokes.

In addition to this studied phenomenon, it seems there is another, not less risky, occurrence regarding high cholesterol. The phenomenon is called increased clotting and it occurs due to the tendency of blood cholesterol to crystallize, expend and explode. It seems tat cholesterol acts like ice in freezing environment: it expends and as it melts (like ice in a bottle), small pieces of it travel through the water.

The debris of the expended bursting cholesterol is then distributed into the blood stream and interferes with the natural clotting process of the blood. As small pieces of the bursting cholesterol come in contact with clotting “in the making” the result is larger clots that can eventually lead to severe artery blockage, heart disease and fatal strokes.