[readthenotes1]

A family member went on the ornish-like diet + atorvastatin for 7 years* after open heart surgery for block in the left main.

Hen tested (via ultra fast CT scan) the blood flow after the experiment -- there was no change.

It may sound depressing, but it's actually very good for what is normally a progressive disease.

The experimenter is currently now doing another 7 year experiment, eating a somewhat healthier than normal diet + statins.

After getting off the ornish diet, there was hardly any change in total cholesterol.

*The diet was ornish-like because it was hard to get anything to eat when going out. The experimentar ate salmon if there was nothing better.

[Aurornis]

> Hen tested (via ultra fast CT scan) the blood flow after the experiment -- there was no change. > It may sound depressing

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of enforcing low cholesterol.

The goal would be to prevent further damage and restriction. By all accounts that test is a positive result.

Atherosclerosis is correlated with lifetime exposure to high cholesterol. Once you reach the point of having open heart surgery for severe problems, the goal is to slow further progression as much as possible.

Hoping to reverse a lifetime of accumulated exposure to high cholesterol with 7 years of slightly below average cholesterol just isn’t going to happen. Stopping further progression is great though!

[emptiestplace]

Did you stop reading at the end of the part you quoted? Their very next words literally say this.

[hyuuu]

i didnt realize that the diet im doing right now has a name, ornish! Just to clarify, so this diet actually works in preventing further damage?

[readthenotes1]

The relative was also taking statins, so it is hard to say.

following the normal course of events leads to subsequent surgical interventions based on the people I've seen...