Peter Attia· MD
and this whole idea of fat or cholesterol clogging your arteries like a pipe it's super like even when I was in medical school we knew that was not the case we know it's a response to injury that's why you get it at bifurcation points for example and you get smooth muscle proliferation and then the foam cells which go in and it's not clear whether the foam cells and all that is a response to the injury but it's because of that whole cascade that atherogenic cascade it's a response to injury but you get excess proliferation of certain things including smooth muscle cells and so on