Knight9
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Scary thing is that it doesn't take a whole bunch of plaque building up and blocking your coronaries to kill you. You can have what happened to me. They think a small plaque broke off in my right main coronary artery and then my blood freaked out and made a huge clot. The clot blocked blood flow, not atherosclerosis and plaque. Once they cleared out my clot it was 100% open. Surgeon was wanting to put a stent in but they didn't have one large enough for my artery. So I didn't really need one.
I think the high blood pressure you get when lifting really heavy is what did it for me. The pressure blows that plaque right off and it is seen as damage to the vessel. Blood starts a clot. I was squatting real heavy for me. Doing 455 for sets of 8 to 10.
I also came across something recently where a doctor was saying Vitamin K softens plaque and that might be exactly what you don't want to do...because you'd rather have hard plaque than soft plaque that is usually the kind that easily breaks free. I need to look for this and post it up...I'm not really sure if this is how it works or just some random doctor trying to have a different opinion.