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The New England Journal of Medicine study that came out in the early 2000s (I don't have a citation for you) concluded the opposite: It's the alcohol that kept
by dhimes 5y ago
The New England Journal of Medicine study that came out in the early 2000s (I don't have a citation for you) concluded the opposite: It's the alcohol that kept the arteries clear. Their study was motivated by the observation that the cadavers med students work on are typically homeless or strongly disadvantaged alcoholics. The bodies were often disease-ravaged, but their blood vessels were in very good shape.
I think of it as an "alcohol as a plaque solvent" model.
- pvaldes 5y agoAnother way to see it is that if you starve and don't eat well and try to store as sugar in your liver (but you can't because the liver has exit the room) you don't have much remaining fat in any part of your body, including the blood vessels.
- dhimes 5y agoThey probably considered that.