Just say no to Statins…..and yes to reducing sugar intake Part 2

Then there’s the issue of your insurance premiums increasing because your cholesterol is over 200 and now you’re supposedly at risk for heart disease. Another study, a meta-analysis review of scientific literature was conducted by Dr. Taylor and The Cochrane Collaboration, a prestigious and respected review in the UK. The researchers found no benefit to [...]

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Just say no to Statins…..and yes to reducing sugar intake Part 1

In my practice, I evaluate a large number of patients and assist with managing cholesterol levels. Even though I was a heart surgeon for many years, I don’t prescribe statins as I believe heart disease, cancer and diabetes are caused by inflammation – not cholesterol. Two Cases In Point The first patient in her late [...]

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The Low Fat Diet or High Carbohydrate diet causes heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.

For decades, high carbohydrate diets (low-fat) have been recommended in order to limit the amount of fat and cholesterol consumed, in the simplistic belief that eating fat will make you fat and eating foods high in cholesterol will cause heart disease. These statements, promulgated by processed food and sugar lobbyists, are so absolutely incorrect. More [...]

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Statins – Let the truth set you free

What would you do for 39 billion dollars a year? Not a measly 100 million, but 39 billion dollars? If the entire existence of your company depended on this discovery, what would you do? Would you keep doing research, despite 9 out of ten of the studies proving that your miracle drug doesn’t work? Would [...]

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Reasons Not to Take Lipitor, Crestor, Vytorin, Besides Making Healthy People Patients And Increasing Your Insurance Premiums

The controversy involves this question: which people without evident occlusive vascular disease (true primary prevention) should be offered statins? The authors note that in formulating recommendations for primary prevention, the authors of the guidelines did not rely on the data that already exist from the primary prevention trials. Indeed, the authors note that the guidelines [...]

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The Myth of Cholesterol

Robert Carlson, MD, FACS Chances are if you’re over 30, your doctor wanted to put you on a statin drug to lower your cholesterol. He probably filled you with terror about your elevated levels (and probably didn’t give you your HDL AND LDL numbers.) Please read this twice: Statin drugs are not your friends! They [...]

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So how important is Cholesterol?

It is the foundation for all of the hormones that are so kind to you. It helps build Vitamin D. It keeps your digestion working better and allows you to remember where you put your car keys. It’s NOT the bad guy, inflammation is the bad guy. Inflammation causes cancer, heart disease, pain and agony. [...]

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