The question is whether cholesterol ever really was a difference maker here. A fair amount of evidence that it wasn’t.
Natto melts fibrin. Fibrin scours for cancer, also makes blood clots. Six of one , half a dozen the other.
I said that myself... my 53 yr old husband had 5 bypasses three weeks ago. He has controlled diabetes completely with Atkins. He just has a double dose of bad genes from mom and dad causing an endogenous dyslipidemia.
The thoracic surgeon who open ended him up said diet won’t correct the profuseness of his disease because diet didn’t cause it.
Makes sense, we eat proportionally the same diet. He was told he will have another open heart within 10 years, so cardio 5 days a week now to survive it.
He is on increasingly high levels of statins. He tried them after his stent 5 years ago, but couldn’t tolerate.
We thought controlling the diabetes would fix it.. we thought diet would fix it.
We were wrong. I hope the statins and cardio give us another 10 years.
Total cholesterol isn't. HDL vs LDL most definitely is. Low total and high HDL = bad. High total and high LDL = good (though low total and high LDL = better).
If you take statins, also take CoQ10. Just like if you must take antibiotics, also take "probiotics".