Hi
@danbcfc1 -
The narrative is often around that kind of thing - fatty deposits that form, or clog up, or somehow constrict... and it's a hugely powerful idea, and it seems to make sense...
except that it just doesn't.
If you look at the two sides of the story -
1 - there simply are no "fatty deposits" in the blood - fat just cannot dissolve in the water that makes up most of the blood. There is a hugely complex system of absorbing the nutrients from fat (of all kinds) and packing them into carriers that can exist in the blood to transport around the body - this happens from fatty acids absorbed from dietary fat in the lower intestine, as well as fatty acids that started off life as carbs digested in the gut and packaged up in the liver. The whole thing is pretty amazing, but there is no biological way for fat you eat to end up in the blood.
2 - the lining of the blood vessels in the whole of your body is also an amazing piece of engineering, and is able to interact with these carriers and extract the nutrients that they need. On top of this, there is a mechanism for healing damage. It gets pretty complicated from there, so I'll stop, but again, there really is no biological way for things to "form inside of blood vessels" the way that we talk about - like clogging up etc.
One simple test is to ask - if either of these things were true - why do we only see
arterial plaque. Why don't we get plaque everywhere in our blood vessels - why does it form these lumps in arteries? if it were clogging - wouldn't that be everywhere and equally in veins?
The answer is also too much for a forum post, but as a simple smell test it's worth considering.
What kind of circulatory issues are you seeing? for me, I'm a decade older, but I had the usual spread of cold feet, cramping in the night.. all of that is demonstrably improving after a year of ..I would say Keto positive.. I'm not quite strict Keto, but I do have measurable ketones most of the time.
