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- I have said it before and I will say it again. In sales Perception is everything. A product doesn't have to be good for you to sell well. As long as the public perceives it to be good for you that's all that matters to score the sale.Food sales are...
- Statins increase Coronary Calcium? Yes, according to this study in 2012. Ask your Doctor if increasing Coronary Calcium is right for you.Progression of vascular calcification is increased with statin use..http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22875226
- Several years back a group of us put our heads together and came up with an acronym of what the letters in statins stand for. Here it is!ScamTherapyAnd TreatmentInduced Neuropathy
- Medical studies andthe cholesterol guidelines. How they are set.Excellent article written in 2013. Still holds true today. Think the guidelines were written for the benefit of patients? Think...
- Every medication has a risks and rewards. For many drugs the reward is recognized almost immediately. If you have a headache and take a pain reliever, most will experience the reward within 30 minutes. If you have heartburn and take an antacid,...
- If you take cholesterol lowering drugs, or any other drug for that fact, you will probably be interested in this easy to read article in Newsweek about big pharma's influence on Doctors. Its eye opening, and explains alot why statins are being...
- Bears are interesting creatures. One thing that makes them so interesting is their SKY HIGH cholesterol when they hibernate. Bears can eat until they are 50% body fat. The bear can then hibernate and his cholesterol will be so high its off the...
- Decades ago the pharmaceutical industry was about making drugs that saved and improved patients lives.Today its about creating the next blockbuster drug and entertaining your physician.
- Dr Mercola on cholesterol truthshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjeV969ecLM
- I remember the 70's well. This is when the cholesterol theory was propelled into popularity.I must admit the theory sounded good and I accepted it myself. Eating saturated fat increases cholesterol levels, thereby causing arteries to clog up like...
- Nothing could be more ludicrous than healthy people taking a drug for a disease they don't have. Yet millions of people are doing exactly that.How did this happen?Fear and assumption. Fear of developing heart disease and treating with a pill, with...
- For the past decade the medical world has drilled into our heads how important it is to reach target goals of lowering "bad" cholesterol and raising "good" cholesterol.Is everyone here aware this has been abandoned?Yes ABANDONED by the new...
- If we track heart disease over the last 100 years, we can see a rise in heart attacks beginning around 1920. This continued to climb after WWII and the 1950's and 1960's were the biggest heart attack decades in the United States. Heart attack death...
- There is a huge relationship between thyroid function and blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.Think of your body's metabolism as a gas furnace. If thyroid hormone gets too low, ( hypothyroid) your body's internal flame goes down and burns...
- One day in the future, the fad of lowering cholesterol will be over. Forums like this about "managing cholesterol" will fade into history, just like the 8 track tape player.