I thought that, too. High meat, raw milk, raw eggs diet for my whole life. Lots of fruit. My LDL-C was always around 170mg/dL but went up to 259mg/dL as I aged. All other blood markers always have been perfect. Doctor ordered a carotid artery scan just to be safe.
They found soft plaque (CIMT of 2.1mm) at the age of 46.
The cardiologist wanted me on a statin and Ezetimibe but I wanted to try without.
I asked if we can reverse it. He said no. Very unlikely. You can stop and stabilize it but usually not reverse it.
He gave me a year to try it on my own way. I went on a WFPB diet (with the exception of daily mussel meat and seafood for B12) with lots of EVO and nuts.
I took high dose nattokinase, berberine, citric bergamot, aged garlic, Q10, vitamin K2 and 10 grams of psyllium husk before every meal. My LDL-C dropped to 95. And I felt great on the diet after I got used to the high amount of food you need to consume on this kind of diet.
After 12 months we did another scan.
30% plaque reversal. CIMT went from 2.1mm to 1.5mm.
The cardiologist was stunned. He asked me in his office and talked to me for 2 hours. He wanted to know everything I did, every supplement I took and every book I read.
Moral of the story: If your LDL-C/ApoB is too high at least get a carotid artery scan every couple of years. If you have plaque you gotta do something.
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Highly unlikely. Same cardiologist, same sonograph. He did the measurement over and over again, because he couldn’t believe it. In the end he told me there is no doubt. And then he took me in his office and questioned me (and took notes) for almost 2 hours about my approach, the supplements I took, my diet, the books I read.
He even said because of my athletic lifestyle and since I already ruptured an achilles he would not put me on a statin since he has so many cases of athletes in his office who ruptured an achilles on statins.
I have seen studies that show a slightly increase in tendon ruptures on statins. But the difference is not that high.
His office could be an outlier. But I don’t want to endure another achilles rupture. We’ll see what happens in December.
I probably first add Ezetimibe to see how low I can get.
And I don’t think 5mg of Rosuvastatin changes my risk of another tendon rupture much.
Maybe I am an outlier. Doctors told me after my achilles rupture I will never be able to walk again without surgery. At this moment I had to try it without surgery just to proof them wrong. Now here I am. Sprinting faster than before my surgery.
When we detected the soft plaque. I asked if it is possible to reverse it. The cardiologist told me plaque reversal is highly unlikely. If I take my statin and Ezetimibe, we can stabilize the plaque. So again, I had to proof him wrong.
I like a good challenge. But if I’m not successful I am happy to take pharmaceutical help since I am not an idiot.
I even worked in medicine for 2 years in the army before I went back to a fighting unit. It was fun and very interesting. Drawing blood, stitching up wounds, giving vaccines, assisting in surgery. I even memorized the medicine compendium on night watches in order to be on a comparable knowledge level to the doctors.
@LeroyLinientreu@AndreasMoser007 PKV für Beamte ist großartig. Sollte aber komplett von Euch Steuerzahlern finanziert werden. Ihr profitiert schließlich davon, wenn wir Beamte gesund bleiben.
I still don’t know how I decreased my CIMT from 2.1mm to 1.5mm within a year with an LDL-C of 95-110mg/dl (Apo B of 85)
Of course it was 259mg/dl before but still.
Maybe there’s more to a WFPB diet than we know now.
We’ll see what happens at my next screening in December.
If it has regressed further I keep doing what I’m doing. If not I will try 5-10mg of Rosuvastatin and 10mg of Ezetimibe to knock my ApoB down to 50 or lower.
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