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hey dr. Berg here in this video we’re

going to talk about clogged arteries or

a thorough score on ik plucking there’s

confusion in that area in that most

people focus on the cholesterol they

want to lower the cholesterol to avoid

clogged arteries and they want to do it

by eliminating butter fat eggs animal

meat okay but what I want to bring up is

some additional data that has to do with

the chain reaction that occurs before

the cholesterol even comes in there in

the chamber beds the first thing that

happens is you get this thing called a

lesion or an inflammatory State in the

lining of the muscle in the artery okay

so it’s a little tiny muscle muscular

layer that you get this inflammation now

in a vein you don’t get clogged arteries

because you don’t have those muscle

contractions veins are a bit more

passive they don’t have that contractile

muscle tissue so you don’t have this

situation it’s only in arteries so you

have this first thing that occurs with

inflammation now what comes next is the

cholesterol but cholesterol the purpose

of this cholesterol is to help heal that

inflammation it acts as a band-aid

that’s what it’s there for I don’t know

if you knew this but your body makes

2,000 milligrams of potassium every

single day every cell wall is made from

cholesterol all your hormones

specifically sex hormones and other ones

are made from cholesterol or your body

makes a lot of it one egg yolk is only I

guess it’s 300 milligrams your body

makes 3,000 if your body makes so much

why is it bad so the point is it’s

trying to heal this inflammation okay

because you also get calcium formation

on the same plaquing so you have this

cement that goes in there to try to heal

it as well and so we got a combination

of calcium plaque cholesterol plaquing

and fibrin plaquing what’s fibrin

vibrant is a kind of like a connected

collagen tissue

a fibrous tissue to help seal off that

wound just like any scar would be so

we’re getting scarring on the inside of

our artery with these three things right

here there’s some other things that

accumulate too like the polysaccharides

I’m not going to get into that it’s a

little too confusing but the point is

that we must understand the first thing

that happen is the inflammation and then

these things happen secondarily so if

we’re going to come in late on a chain

and start dropping calcium and fiber and

cholesterol did we really fix anything

well people say well I went on a

plant-based diet and I healed my body

well that’s because you healed

inflammation and your cholesterol is

going to come down because there’s no

longer needed to heal this let’s talk

about what causes inflammation stress

that’s that cortisol very destructive on

the body stressful foods junk foods of

course and an insulin that’s all the

refined grains breads pasta cereal

crackers biscuits sugar all that stuff

our body an average American consumes

149 pounds of sugar every single year so

that’s a lot of insulin of course that’s

going to create inflammation in your

arteries the desserts the alcohol that

will do it as well

and also not having enough omega-3 fatty

acids it’s like fish oils things like

that or flax oil so there’s a lot of

things here that can cause it smoking

can cause that other chemicals in your

body but the point is that the real

cause of a clogged artery is bad habits

creating inflammation and then all these

are just the things that it’s kind of

like the icing on the cake it’s the

thing that comes later so now that you

understand this then we can actually get

rid of these things and then watch this

go down because I’ll have people tell me

I went in a plant-based diet a

vegetarian diet and I got rid of my

cholesterol my clogged arteries well I

also have other people that went in a

meat diet and got rid of their the what

the cluster went down to why because

they stopped having the carbohydrates

the refined carbohydrates the insulin so

that’s some deeper data on the clogged

artery mechanism I’ll see in the next

video