Statins are the most popular drugs in history. Drug companies made $26 billion selling statins alone in 2008. 25 million Americans take them, and the number is growing each year.One reason why statins are the best-selling drug category by far is that 92% of people taking them are healthy. The FDA has approved the prescription of statins to people at low risk for heart disease and stroke, who don't even have high cholesterol. ...
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Still think saturated fat is bad for you? Still think eating eggs raises cholesterol? Still think high cholesterol causes heart disease?If you answered yes to any of those questions, you really need to watch these videos. (But hey, you might learn something even if you answered "no".)In this presentation I:debunk the myth that eating saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease.
explain why LDL and total cholesterol are not useful markers for heart ...
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll know I'm not a big fan of supplements. I've always believed that it's preferable to get the nutrients we need from whole foods, as they're found in nature, rather than from isolated, synthetic sources (i.e. supplements).Unfortunately, modern medicine is obsessed with isolated, synthetic nutrients and has convinced itself that they have the same beneficial properties as nutrients found in whole foods.A gigantic dietary ...
Dr. John Briffa wrote a post worth reading on his blog today about the significant side effects of statin drugs, and the considerable effort pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment spend trying to convince people that these drugs are safe.Sadly, they've been largely successful. Some time ago a physician in the UK by the name of Dr. John Reckless (you can't make this stuff up) suggested that statins are so safe that they should be ...
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