If a person has CV disease with arterial plaquing and blocked coronarys suppose you starved them severely?
until they be skeletal. To the point where almost all heavy was gone and they were burning their muscles and organs for fuel. Like the Jewish folks in the concentration camps that be skin and bones. Do you think that eventually the material in the coronary arteries and the systemic arterial plaquing would reduce as it was used for glucose synthesis? Do you have an idea that CV disease in arteries may be somewhat or greatly reversable via severe long term starvation?
Answer: That is a really-off the wall hypothesis.
A man beside cardiovascular disease and
arterial plaqueing and blocked coronaries is
about 95% dead already.
Then you want to subject this creature to
starvation? How long do you think he would
last?
Plus, if you do anything to produce that
plaque break off in chunks, the first one
to hit a highest artery or his lung, he's dead!!
Please. You have an investigative mind
and should probably be contained by Research, BUT
this idea is really whacko.
Ask yourself, how many childlike and healthy
people in fact made it out alive after
being starved--to death surrounded by the concentration camps? You have forgotten something. It doesn't appropriate long for "long-term starvation" to kill a person..
The aterial plaquing is not in fact fat stuck to the wall of the artery. Its a fibrous scar tissue that forms.
Arterial plaques initially form when LDL cholesterol is adhere to the wall of an artery. Then macrophages (a type of white blood cell) engulf them in an effort to remove the LDL. The macrophages releases an oxidative burst which oxidises the cholesterol, and become a foam cell. This foam cell is large and causes impair to the arterial wall. When the arterial wall heals a scar forms.
Its not certainly fat stuck to the arterial wall. You cant use it for energy. Fat is not converted to glucose anyway. Fat is converted to ketone bodies (2x acetone) contained by the process of b-oxidation.
Starvation is not the solution to any problem. Least of all CVD. one you have plaques, they are near for good..
it's never been studied, but if I have to guess it would probably reduce the plaquing on arterial walls.
However since the person be being starved, it would be somewhat of a mute point since their liver (which gets rid of the plaques components surrounded by the blood stream) and heart would fail from starvation, so you might slightly reduce one aspect of heart disease, but die from it anyways.
The biggest dietary treatment I have found to be effective is completely adjectives chlorine from one's diet (including getting a shower filter). It's not that commonly talked about, but it's my view chlorination of water is the primary cause of athersclerosis.
There are plenty of dietary therapy which work (ie less meat and junk food, more fresh vegatables), and I'd specifically wager a decent diet is much more effective than starvation.
Who know though, if you can set up the study you're welcome to find out what happens!