Is surgery the only way to actually remove the plaque in our arteries?
Fiber from almonds and fruits
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No it does not.
Cholesterol is the linking factor here, through complex mechanisms over years and decades it can clog important arteries to cause things like heart attacks and strokes. It comes from food, if we get less of it in our food, the risk of those things goes down.
If you’ve heard of bile, that has cholesterol in it too. Our body releases cholesterol into our intestines but it gets resorbed again. Fibrous food such as oatmeal actually binds it and we poop it back out. Thus, lower cholesterol and therefore lower risk of heart attack.
The tricky part about the clogs is they aren’t just cholesterol, they have other fats, immune cells which tried to eat/destroy all the fat and are hanging out, irritated vessel wall cells, and so on, and all that took many years to develop. So if I just eat a bowl of oatmeal, maybe it will lower my cholesterol, but that won’t be able to help the big complicated clog that formed.
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