Atherosclerosis may be a normal vessel repair mechanism that becomes problematic when it escalates beyond the body's capacity.

“is atherosclerosis protective until it's not is atherosclerosis part of this protective process are these macrophages and the endothelium with these lox receptors purposefully you know i think it's reasonable they're supposed to be taking up this oxidized aldo they're clearing it and we're all going to get some oxidized ldl from time to time it's when we overwhelm the system that we get more and more plaque build up and then eventually the body is just trying to repair repair repair and then they rupture”