Peter Attia· MD
so if the deposition of cholesterol is the problem I you don't if you ran to your doctor tomorrow and got your cholesterol checked uh uh checked and it's very high you don't have to rush out to see a cardiologist uh to check your arteries that day because it takes a long long time for this cholesterol deposition to occur remember we're talking about an a very small molecules here so and even the way that it's being deposited in your artery wall are very very tiny dump trucks they don't each carry four pounds of cholesterol so if they carriers of cholesterol are invading the artery wall it takes decades for this plaque to find get to a point where it's noticeable on some diagnostic image certainly uh it would take even longer for symptoms to occur and everything so it's a slowo process