| Masai all have atherosclerotic plaque build up and it is also present in their children. Childhood with plaque forces various adaptations to blood vessels. They get wider and more elastic to counter the reduced blood flow and rigidity. Anyone who isn't a child won't be able to make these adaptations and anyone who isn't on a starvation mimicking diet but is trying to gain or maintain weight on diets filled with dietary cholesterol will almost certainly start building up plaque. Yes, dietary cholesterol has a low effect on blood serum cholesterol after some amount. So yes, increasing the consumption of eggs from 5 to 10 a day won't linearly effect the blood serum cholesterol. Problem with fasting mimicking diets is that they are not a cure and are not long-term. Also, consuming only things that are easy to digest makes you digestion more fragile to varying stimuli in the future. Which is why people who are on these "rejuvinating" diets for a longer period of time tend to experience their disease symptoms much quicker when they go back to eating vegetables rich in antinutrients. Here's a very nice study where all Masai participants had atherosclerosis. Some even died from heart disease being less than 20 years of age:
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/95/1/26/167903 "These pastoral people are exceptionally active and fit and they consume diets of milk and meat. The intake of animal fat exceeds that of American men. Measurements of the aorta showed extensive atherosclerosis with lipid infiltration and fibrous changes but very few complicated lesions. The coronary arteries showed intimal thickening by atherosclerosis which equaled that of old U.S. men. The Masai vessels enlarge with age to more than compensate for this disease. It is speculated that the Masai are protected from their atherosclerosis by physical fitness which causes their coronary vessels to be capacious." |