Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Letter to your doctor about taking statins.

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If your doctor is pushing you to take a statin drug to lower your LDL Cholesterol you might consider printing out this letter and presenting...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Wheat and Heart Disease (Ch 10)

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"So it's not really about cholesterol. It's about the particles that cause atherosclerosis. Today you and I are able to directl...
Monday, February 6, 2012

60-Year Old Man Dies of High Cholesterol

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60-year old man dies of high cholesterol from Heart Scan Blog by Dr. William Davis Never saw a headline like this? Neither ha...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Link between Nerve Damage and Statin Drugs

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by Dr. Mercola Spending on cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins increased by $160 million in 2010, for a total spending of nearly $19 b...

Back to basics: Coronary calcium

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Back to basics: Coronary calcium Posted on January 30, 2012 by Dr. William Davis After having my attentions pulled a thousand diff...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Statin Drugs - To prescribe or not to prescribe.

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To prescribe or not to prescribe: That is the statin question, experts debate January 23, 2012 ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Doctors Threaten Strike; Others want us all to be guinea pigs

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Doctors Threaten Strike; Others want us all to be guinea pigs . . . A new medical threat proposed But there are now other threats to...

Don’t believe everything you read (including in scientific journals)

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Don’t believe everything you read (including in scientific journals) News broke last week (see here for an example) that a University of...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

There Is No Scientific Basis to Support Treating to LDL Targets

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  . . . There Is No Scientific Basis to Support Treating to LDL Targets First, no major randomized clinical trial (RCT) has tes...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Statins and Diabetes

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Statins and Diabetes If you are taking statins [Crestor, Lipitor, etc] and you are not a male under 65 with a previously existing he...