This is not my idea. The reader taught me. It turns out that some people believe that atherosclerotic plaques are hardened bile. And if you dissolve it, then the plaques will come off. Witty? Not that word!
Now I will try to figure out where this heresy grows from.
Bile can be associated with atherosclerosis through cholesterol.
Bile contains so-called bile acids. They help us digest fat. Cholesterol is a part of bile acids.
The liver takes cholesterol from the blood and makes bile acids from it. Bile acids are excreted in the bile. That is why cholesterol stones are sometimes found in the gallbladder.
Bile acids enter the intestines, help digest fats, and then are absorbed from the intestines into the bloodstream and again enter the liver. This is the normal course of things.
There was such a story with rodents and other rabbits. When scientists studied atherosclerosis, then, as expected, they experimented on small animals.
The animals were fed with fatty food and waited for the appearance of atherosclerosis. But he was not there.
It turned out that rodents are very effective in removing cholesterol with bile acids.
The rabbit's liver took cholesterol from the blood, made bile acids from it, poured this matter into the intestines, and the intestines, in turn, refused to suck these bile acids back. So cholesterol went straight to waste. Very effective.
And then scientists realized that if you bind bile acids in the intestines of a person, then the level of cholesterol in his blood will drop.
This is a crude method. But it works. If a person has any hereditary metabolic disorder with high cholesterol, then you can try.
It turns out that in life the solution to the problem turned out to be no less elegant than in that story about solid bile in the vessels.
Have you heard about this?
