I can't have gluten, and I was a beer brewer.

Life is a sadistic shithead. Are you brewing gluten-free beer now or did you have to drop the craft altogether?

Same for me. Gluten makes my tummy cramp (painfully), and that in turn makes me angry. For some reason, beer seems to be especially bad (maybe because it's liquid).

Statins would not have helped. My cholesterol was ideal. What got me was stress and anger. They, and their buddy hypertension, create tears in your blood vessels which the body patches up with our organic spackle...cholesterol. Even if your lipid levels are ideal, the core function of cholesterol would still kill you if the core cause of the tearing is not addressed.