Actor Ray Romano revealed that he had to have a stent placed in an artery after his doctor found that 90% of his main artery was blocked.
"I just had to have a stent put in," he told Marc Maron on"I got kinda lucky that we found it. I had 90% blockage in the main artery, what they call the ‘widowmaker.' I had a stent put in."
The conversation started because Maron was discussing how he'd started a vegan diet to see if his health improved or if he felt better. He said he had been taking a medication toRay Romano revealed the main artery in his heart was 90% blocked. "I had high cholesterol, you know, 20 years ago, and my guy always told me, ‘Why don’t we go on the statin?'" Romano said, referring to a"Every time, I said, ‘Let me do it myself, let me do it myself,’" he recalled."I would go home, and I would eat right, not vegan, but I would eat a little healthier and get it down a couple ticks. …
"I go back, and it was 280. Now it's 220. I go, ‘Ah!’ And he'd go, ‘OK, now you gotta get it down more,' and I'd go home and think I was hot s---. I got it down already, so I'd start cheating, cheating. And that was the start of the cycle.
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