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Does Drinking Alcohol Help In Preventing Clogged Arteries?

Does drinking alcohol help prevent clogged arteries. to me it stands to reason that alcohol is a form of solvent, solvent helps dispense grease, cholesterol is a form of grease therefor alcohol should in fact help emulsify an disperse cholesterol . What do you think. My wife is on my a-- about my daily consumption of bourbon. I justify my somewhat low grade alcoholism by justifying it consumption
Mon, 22 Sep 2014
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one to two drinks per day IS associated with a lower risk of cardiac disease.you have your theory I have mine
bad cholesterol drops off cholesterol from the liver to everywhere including vessels. after the bad cholesterol buckets (.ldl ) drops off cholesterol it becomes good cholesterol buckets that carry cholesterol out and back to the liver. many things that increase the distance the buckets travel by increasing the number of active vessels (. flush..blush) also lowers heart risk.
this includes exercise, sex, niacin, and alcohol.
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Does Drinking Alcohol Help In Preventing Clogged Arteries?

one to two drinks per day IS associated with a lower risk of cardiac disease.you have your theory I have mine bad cholesterol drops off cholesterol from the liver to everywhere including vessels. after the bad cholesterol buckets (.ldl ) drops off cholesterol it becomes good cholesterol buckets that carry cholesterol out and back to the liver. many things that increase the distance the buckets travel by increasing the number of active vessels (. flush..blush) also lowers heart risk. this includes exercise, sex, niacin, and alcohol.