Amino Acids ?

[razr]

Hello, what would be the best chelated amino acids for cleaning of the arteries, or is it even possible?
Thanx.

[maxlharris]

Tough question:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=amino%20acid%20atherosclerosis
That should get you around the scholarly papers on the subject. You can refine the search.

Most of what I found used amino acid differences as markers for atherosclerosis (dirty arteries), rather than as a cure.

I think generally, off the cuff, sticking to a low carb diet will work, over time, to reduce the plaque in your arteries. I'm not a doctor and I don't do a lot of reading on atherosclerosis either, so this is not to be taken as advice in lieu of a medical professional or someone else who knows better.

[Roadstr]

razr... You might want to plug this in Google Scholar search, "Cholesterol Lowering and Plaque Regression After 6 Months" (http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/110/16/2336). This paper is about statins reducing cholesterol and showing a reduction in plaque by MRI. I'm not bringing your attention to this study because of the statins part, but because I think you may be interested in what can reverse arterial plaque,... besides amino acids you would be interested in this, yes?

I recently had a carotid artery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid_artery) ultrasound done and no build up was found and the comment by the neurologist was, "but, we don't know what your large arteries by the heart look like". That made me feel warm and fuzzy. :confused: But, the point I'm going to make here is that if you believe the studies that have been done and follow the main stream reasoning, no matter how bias you believe it is (and it may be) or how they arrive at their conclusions, it comes down to lowering LDL and increasing HDL. I will be the first NOW, to say that it's not healthy to have a low cholesterol level.

What I am telling you is that there is a general understanding that plaque buildup can be reversed... that's all, forget at this moment that they are talking about statins in the article, "There appears to be a significant correlation between statin-induced lipid lowering and plaque regression, as well as reverse remodeling characterized by cross-sectional luminal increase." and it goes on to say, "Our understanding of atherosclerotic plaque regression is largely derived from pathological studies performed in experimental animals and humans. There is a large body of evidence indicating that atherosclerotic plaque lipid content is depleted with plasma cholesterol reduction and that such reduction can be monitored experimentally by MRI."

So what is pretty much understood is that decreasing LDL will have an effect of reducing plaque. But, there's more besides LDL... The article recognized another study that raised HDL levels to causes plaque regression, "More recently, a small trial using intravenous apolipoprotein A-I Milano to raise HDL cholesterol levels has documented plaque regression by intravascular ultrasound after only 6 weeks of therapy. These observations challenge the current paradigm of atherosclerosis as a chronic process that evolves slowly and requires prolonged lipid-lowering therapy to regress." The story on the Milano lipid is pretty interesting.

This article (http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/113/8/1140) about HDL states in the Summary, "Low levels of HDL-C are a major independent risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and events, even in patients who are aggressively treated for LDL-C reduction. Although existing drugs have modest effects on HDL-C levels, this area remains a major unmet medical need in cardiovascular medicine." However, in the beginning of the paper it states, "High-saturated-fat diets raise HDL-C levels..."

I agree with Max, over time Power Protein will cause plaque reduction. It took me a while to come to this conclusion, but it's very simple... PP WOE can lower LDL AND MORE IMPORTANTLY increase HDL. Your doing what statins do, only your using food as the drug, if you will. You might have to tweak a few things that are within PP guidlines for you own metabolism, but not only will you do the same thing as statins do, but your HDL will also go up.

Hope this helps, if you do find something on amino acids reducing plaque it will probably have a reference to HDL and LDL.