There is general research that shows that after about two weeks of limited inputs, bacteria colonies will go dormant, retreating into the structural matrix ("sl

There is general research that shows that after about two weeks of limited inputs, bacteria colonies will go dormant, retreating into the structural matrix ("slime") that bacteria produce for themselves. If fed, they will come roaring back relatively quickly. To mostly kill off a species of bacteria, it can take months (6-ish?) of starving them during their dormant state. Sorry, no links, just reporting recollections from general reading that I have been doing. Stop reading now unless you are interested in cardio-vascular disease. I started researching this a little over a year ago when I got a cardiac stent to prop open a 99% blockage in the left anterior descending artery. Yeah, I was probably within weeks of having the classic widow-maker heart attack. (I didn't, and I'm now fit and healthy, so I consider myself lucky.) I eventually found a line of research out of the Cleveland Clinic, work done by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. His work is based on this: 1. CVD is the result of an injury to the endothelium that first attracts white blood cells to the damage, then cholesterol joins the party and they form "foam" cells that can get under the endothelium and eventually calcify. 2. The endothelium produces Nitric Oxide gas that is both a vaso-dialator and also helps the endothelium repair itself and cleanse itself of non-calcified foam cells. 3. The primary driver of CVD that is associated with the standard American diet is that the diet destroys the Nitric Oxide blood gas. How does that destruction of Nitric Oxide happen? 1. Carnitine, lecithin, and other proteins found in meat, fish, diary, and oils are metabolized by a colony of gut bacteria to produce tri-methyl amine (TMA). 2. TMA travels to the liver and is metabolized into tri-methyl amine oxdide (TMAO). 3. TMAO enters the blood stream and annihilates nitric oxide, robbing the endothelium of its self-defense mechanism. Eating a meal that feeds that bacteria colony will suppress nitric oxide blood gas for 6 to 8 hours. So, if you eat the SAD at every meal, the level of nitric oxide will never recover. I am on a mission to starve those little bacteria bastards out. Kill'em all with gleeful murder in my heart. So for about a year I have been on a diet that is most easily described as vegan, with the additional restriction of no oils and high-oil foods. I wish I had some good way of measuring my blood TMAO levels. I don't, so I'm just going by the general rule of being as strict as possible for several months to try to knock the bacteria out as best as I can.