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Originally posted by Orthogonal:
Many years ago I was one of a number of scientists employed by a large pharmaceutical corporation, in the R&D dept. charged with the development and approval of new drugs. A normal step in the that process is the testing of such drugs in animal models. We had many varieties of animals from mice embryos to fully grown cattle and everything in between except monkeys. I do recall that the entire staff, including several veterinarians, had widely threatened they were leaving the day that the first monkey ever came in(none ever did) as they were considered hateful to tend to.

Anyhow, one of the drugs being developed and tested for reducing arterial clogging deposits of the known-to-be -deadly cholesterol was sodium-dextro-thyroxine, the right hand molecule of the commonly prescribed thyroid drug sodium-levo-thyroxine. It worked remarkably well and was a precedent to the more modern 'statin' drugs but it also had an undesirable side effect(a CNS stimulation) that any prescribing physician had to pay close attention to and hence fell into disfavor (that has left it in the dust although it was approved and is still for sale AFAIK). The statins were another 2 decades in the future at that time.

For the testing of the drug in the selected animal species(several, prior to any subsequent human testing) the animals were fed special diets that produced very startling clogging on the walls of their major blood vessels. The animals had to be sacrificed and then their blood vessels were sectioned for seeing the extent of closure at varying levels of the drug dosages from none to high. I saw many color photos of slides of these sectioned vessels that readily displayed the cholesterol deposits therein. They looked exactly like the photos you have seen of very old water pipes that have handled heavily mineralized water for many decades, commonly to the point of closure.

The specialized animal diets needed only two additives that produced those high levels of deposits of cholesterol, viz., coconut oil and egg yolks. FWIW

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Originally posted by smlsig:

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Originally posted by Orthogonal:

The specialized animal diets needed only two additives that produced those high levels of deposits of cholesterol, viz., coconut oil and egg yolks. FWIW

I guess many here didn’t bother reading your last paragraph....

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Get him in touch with someone with a competition background.

If his trainer/coach/mentor isn't experienced in a strength sport/natural bodybuilding, he will be wasting his time.