Plaque formation occurs in non-human animals, suggesting it is not solely due to a processed diet and may be related to arterial repair.

“the other thing I'll just mention about LDL for people or the process of plaque formation is that we know that plaque formation occurs in all animals in the world in elephants in giraffes in vegetarian animals it occurs in tigers I shouldn't say all animals are not a geologist but there are many animals that we've observed plaque formation in and I think this is such a great testament to the fact that this isn't necessarily due plaque formation is not necessarily due to a processed diet I think it could contribute to it for sure but it's probably just arterial repair”