another great post of yours:
The Plaque-Reversing Study Cardiology Willfully Ignored for Over Two Decades
The Story of a 2004 Study That Should Have Changed Everything
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-plaque-reversing-study-cardiology
In the pomegranate group, mean IMT at baseline was 1.5 mm. What they observed over the following year was a progressive, stepwise regression:
At three months: 13% reduction in IMT.
At six months: 22% reduction.
At nine months: 26% reduction.
At twelve months: up to 35% reduction—with mean IMT dropping from 1.5 mm to 1.1 mm.
The control group, receiving identical standard cardiac care without pomegranate juice? Their mean IMT increased by 9% over the same twelve-month period—from 1.45 mm to 1.58 mm.
Read that again. One group reversed. The other progressed. Divergent trajectories from matched starting points. The only variable was a food. Pomegranate juice every day!