Questions about cholesterol may be yesterday's dilemma for you.
If you already get the whole real-foodie thing and know better than eating junk fats like soybean or canola oil, Crisco, or other fake “foods” (read more about healthy fats here), would you share this with your friends or family members who don't yet know what to believe?
The “biggest nutrition fiasco of our times”?
“Bad science started it. Careless government latched onto it. Profit-hungry pharmaceutical companies perpetuated it. Misguided, overloaded medical practitioners accepted it. Opportunistic food manufacturers made fortunes off it. And the health of our nation crumbled because of it.” (Source)
The Biggest MYTH in Medical History:
The following are a few excerpts from the video…
- Dr. Eades: “You very seldom see the words ‘saturated fat' in the public press unless it's with the words ‘artery-clogging', it's like it's all one term, ‘artery-clogging saturated fats'. That's not science, that's marketing.”
“Two ambitious trials costing over 250 billion, involving hundreds of thousands of patients, both failed to prove that lowering saturated fat could reduce your risk of dying from a heart attack.”
- Gary Taubes: “The way the authorities responded to this was to claim that they must've done the study wrong.”
- Dr. Sinatra: “I used to be the poster boy for the drug companies, when I was chief of cardiology, I used to write for statins all the time! I really believed in the cholesterol theory for heart disease…
Blaming cholesterol for causing heart disease is like blaming firemen for causing fires, because they're always at the scene.
Only oxidized cholesterol is inflammatory. The inflammatory theory of heart disease is more accepted, but the general cardiovascular community is still more focused on cholesterol, they need to focus more on inflammation. We've placed all this emphasis on cholesterol and taken it off sugar and that's the problem, then you're getting more insulin responses, and we know that insulin is the number one indicator for inducing what we call inflammation in the blood vessels.”
- Dr. Bowden: “Sugar is far more damaging to the heart than fat ever was, and we're beginning to see this now. This focus on cholesterol has been incredibly destructive because then we haven't looked at these real promoters of heart disease, inflammation, oxidative damage, sugar in the diet, and number one with a bullet: stress…
After the age of 47 high cholesterol is probably protective, the people who had the highest cholesterol lived the longest; much to the amazement of a lot of the researchers, people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most fat, actually weighed less and were the most active.”
- Dr. Curtis: “Once I got into the cardiology field itself, I was seeing people with heart attacks that had cholesterol all over the place. High cholesterol, low cholesterol, it didn't seem to matter…
Quite frankly, given the certainty with which we were taught this, it surprised me to find out how poor the evidence was, virtually non-existent…
Your body manufactures 80-90% of your cholesterol, really very little of it comes from the diet. Most people seem to have a genetically preset level for the cholesterol in the body, it may be in a range, but they'll generally stay in that range, so if somebody cuts all the cholesterol out of the diet, their body will just make more to stay in that range.”
More to check out:
- More on cholesterol myths from Dr. Berg
- The Benefits of High Cholesterol
- I love this movie about fat myths: Fathead
- Have you seen this post: The true cause of heart disease or this one: My Husband Just Had Quadruple Bypass Surgery – NOW Should We Avoid Fat?!
- Have you read this book by Jimmy Moore? Cholesterol Clarity — What the HDL is Wrong with My Numbers?!
Heather H says
Jeff, people like you are the reason that America is one of the sickest countries in the world, even though we have the “best” medical care in the world. According to the Presidents cancer panel, the average person has a 40% of getting cancer. Also, my health and blood work improved dramatically when I started making healthy saturated fats the majority of my diet. Blood work doesn’t lie. Things are a changing… don’t get left behind.
Julie says
Jeff is NOT the reason that we are a sick nation. He is doing his job and following the myths that all of us at one time have diligently agreed with. I said that he is deluded and that was not kind. We are living in times where anyone can get caught up in the smoke and mirrors of modern myths. We can hardly keep up with the technological boom that has so quickly entered our lives. Most of us, if any of us are free, whether it is politics, science, education, big agriculture or me sitting here typing a message to you on my computer. I would say to Jeff, keep looking for the truth. Science is not without serious flaws in our time and consequently the medical/science communities have been in bed with the corporations for a long time. Big agriculture is running politics and you only need to look at Wallstreet of which Barack Obama is a big proponent. Admittedly I voted for the guy. We have to search for truth and live our lives according to our reality and not illusory thinking. Check out Nourished Traditions by Sally Fallon. Read what she has written and think for yourself. It is good you found us on facebook. Jeff, we are not your enemies. Some of us found our way here because we were ill and AMA docs couldn’t help us except by drug therapy. That didn’t work for me. I had to advocate for myself. At 58 years old, I want to live and work again. I don’t want to survive on drugs which only masked my symptoms but never cured the problem.
KitchenKop says
Thank you for this Julie, and thank you everyone for keeping this very important conversation going.
Kelly
Julio Zamora says
It is interesting how we see medicine in our lives, and how much we really know about the medicines that are made. I would have to question Jeff on his leaning toward science, as his major source for what he chooses. I believe that in what I have read, science is not a perfect science. This is the case, because man is not perfect.
You can read one day about a reputable medical journal state a study, then have another reputable medical journal state the opposite. You can also have two groups of highly educated and highly acclaimed cardiologists, biologists, scientists, what ever profession, come to different conclusions about a study.
I am not against drugs. they have their place. But I know through wisdom as a layman, that drugs are toxic, by reading the makeup of how they are made and their contents, and by watching what they do, once taken internally. We do know more than the doctors, since we know our bodies and how it functions, and what drugs do to us, by the reactions to them. I am not naive about what is good and bad. I do not blindly give myself to all a doctor says, because they are not always right. We all make mistakes, but I know my body.
Remember that they had said the world was flat. But it is round. I trust my body. It knows what is good and what is bad, because it tells me so. Sorry I do not have a Phd, or studied biology, or advanced molecular biology. But I have been given wisdom to know what is right for me, and what is wrong for me. We must be vigilant. this world is big, and many do not have our best interest. But what is good has a good foundation, a good blueprint.
I will look toward this. Not just any science that tells me how to think.
Jeff says
Really I am janitor? I am a Certified Registered Nurse Anethetist, I trained at ORMC a level 1 trauma center. I have worked at Florida Hospital, a nationally ranked hospital, both a CRNA and an ICU nurse. I have worked at USFs college of medicine as a researcher and have published articles in peer reviewed Cancer journal. I have degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Nursing and Anesthesia. I have done anesthesia for every area with a lot of vascular surgeries. Now I do mainly endoscopy because it has better hours. I make $180,000 a year, not that that matters, but no one would pay a “moron” or a janitor that kind of money. So for those who think I am nothing because I did not mention my credentials I am not a janitor.
Oh by the way neither I nor 99% of doctors make a dime from the drug companies. They don’t even hand of pens any more. A doctor is not going to prescribe a drug that is not working because their is no incentive to. Just like I would not use a drug that did not work. Doctors would not prescribe statins if they did not lower cholesterol and lipids levels.
I do not eat margarine either trans fats are worse than saturated fats according to research. I govern my practice as do most professional people by science which is objective in nature. Sugar not the enemy unless you are an uncontrolled diabetic. Excess sugar turns to fat in the liver, but I advocate for whole grains. However you can eat your saturated fats and cholesterol and not take medications that have dramatically increased the average life span. You are free to believe it is all a big conspiracy and science is nonsense because someone at the mom meeting told you that sugar causes all the diseases. I am not the naive one though. I will stick with objective science and the people that spend decades trying to help people rather than the ones who make up their opinions on hearsay, gossip, and random thought without any reason, education, or research. Same type of thinking that resulted in us getting Obama.
Jeff says
First, my degree areas are Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Anesthesia. Yes I did not review my post or check spelling. Yes Cholesterol is vital, but your body can make 100% of your cholesterol. Cholesterol is not a vital nutrient, both HDL and LDL are made in the liver. Dietary cholesterol is not necessary. You can add some from your diet, but it should be limited. Cholesterol gets stuck in the arteries because of an imbalance go LDL (mostly from diet) and HDL (mostly manufactured). The purpose of HDL is to bring LDL back to the liver. When too much LDL and not enough HDL you have build up of plaques. It is rarely a injury issue in terms of cholesterol. Given that theory the angioplasty and stent placement would increase cholesterol plaques not decrease them. I was an RN too in the ICU I am surprised that someone who learned disease process in school would decide to support a low carb diet over a low fat diet.
Julie glad you lost weight, but anecdotal evidence does not mean anything. Medicine goes by research and controls not personal stories. I drink excessively and not have an issue for a long time and state their is nothing wrong with drinking excessively because I am fine. However this does not mean excessive drinking is not damaging. Glad you lost weight though.
Jen what cardiologist have changed their mind. All the vascular surgeons I work with and the cardiologists in the cath lab advocate a low fat, low cholesterol diet. The rest of your comment is over generalized and there are clearly other lifestyle or dietary modifiers at work. Once again why anecdotal evidence is not used in medicine.
Kate that is the most convincing argument, I will give you that. Only time will tell Lipitor and most of the statin have came off patent. Now it is projected to make $3 Billion but that will drop as everyone starts writing for generic because insurance won’t pay for brand name. It is a good argument, but I just disagree because I know there is a very established link between high fat and high cholesterol diets and cardiovascular disease. Some patients do have genetic issue and some have an inflammatory issues, but they are not the most prevalent causes. Kate that is a good argument though.
For those that care to look at journal articles in included some citations to look at:
The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 113, Issue 9, Supplement 2 , Pages 13-24, 30 December 2002
Randomized clinical trials on the effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate on plasma lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease
Current Atherosclerosis Reports
November 2010, Volume 12, Issue 6, pp 384-390,
Open Access
Saturated Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: Modulation by Replacement Nutrients
Patty W. Siri-Tarino, Qi Sun, Frank B. Hu, Ronald M. Krauss
https://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/FatsAndOils/Fats101/Saturated-Fats_UCM_301110_Article.jsp
Commenter via Facebook says
I am an RN, and you couldn’t PAY me to take a statin! I’ve seen the horrible side effects of these things! You also couldn’t get me to eat fake fats anymore either. I trust cows more than chemists.
Kate Punivai says
The reason the myth is still perpetuated is two-fold, and has nothing to do with science.
First, Lipitor (cholesterol-lowering drug) is world’s highest selling drug, raking in about 7.7 billion per year. Another cholesterol-lowering drug (Crestor) is also in the top 10 of bestselling drugs, with 4.4 billion revenue per year. If the whole myth is exposed, there is a LOT of income lost for the drug companies. Hell, they’d have to invent a whole new disease in order to recoup those lost profits…
Second, there’s a lot of status involved in being a specialist or medical “expert”. Imagine the status and credibility lost if they now come out and say “Actually, we were wrong. Fat is not the problem… Sugar is! Sorry about that!”…
Commenter via Facebook says
I don’t think he is a troll and ill tell you why… Jeff is under the same assumption as most of the world. What we’ve been taught for the past 30 years, since whole foods and local farmers started becoming a thing of the past. The majority believe cutting edge science and trust their doctors. It makes sense doesn’t it? Do no harm? 8+ years of schooling and training must count for something? It’s a very frightening thought to realize you’ve been damaging your body by following a doctor’s advice. I feel sorry for all the Jeffs out there when the light bulb comes on and they see the truth. It’s going to be difficult to accept.
I’ve been in the medical profession for about 22 years. I’ve worked in 2 hospitals and am currently a full time EMT. I cringe whenever someone tells me they’re taking statins. My great grandparents had a small farm in Maine. They piped frigid water from a mountain spring, had a cow for milk, butter, cream and cheese, chickens for eggs and meat, basically everything a farmer in the early 1900’s had and did. They rarely caught a cold and lived to be almost 90 years old. With a county doctor that made house calls for people and animals alike. I have found that progress is not always a good thing. Most people will never realize that. So don’t let people like this upset you. Educate those who want to learn and don’t worry about the rest.
Commenter via Facebook says
Sadly, too many medical hold on to wrong science to the bitter end. More than likely they have best interest at heart, just have a closed mind. Probably still eat margarine.
Commenter via Facebook says
David Dain Smith lookout! She’s going to call you names for disagreeing with her! That ought to convince more people that her beliefs are science-based and not confabulations.
Commenter via Facebook says
Kelly that isn’t the point, the point is large studies exist that refute your statement that statins do not save lives. That somebody paid for them doesn’t make them wrong.
The fact that no one will pay for food based studies doesn’t make the studies that do exist wrong.
The profit motive might make us suspicious (that’s why you do peer review) but it doesn’t make the data or the studies wrong.
Yes the China study has its flaws, mythology isn’t one of them. It is at least, data.
My objection isn’t with your food choices, it is with your rejection of peer reviewed science.
600,000 people die from heart disease every year. That is a pretty scary effect of disease if you ask me.
I don’t care if you don’t take a statin, that isn’t my point. They certainly aren’t without risk (nothing is). What concerns me is the assumption that they have no benefit.
What if someone reads your post and stops taking their dr prescribed medicine without consulting their healthcare provider? Are you so sure you haven’t harmed them?
Diets today are terrible. The cholesterol hypothesis doesn’t explain everything but it is based on the hard work of dedicated scientists and deserves more than a flip dismissal.
KitchenKop says
“What if someone reads your post and stops taking their dr prescribed medicine without consulting their healthcare provider? Are you so sure you haven’t harmed them?” – This is why I do my best to make it VERY clear to anyone who reads my stuff, and I say this ALL OF THE TIME, just ask my regular readers: “I am not a doctor, do not blindly follow me or *anyone* else – DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.”
Kelly
Commenter via Facebook says
that fact that he believes statins save lives is enough for me to know he’s a MORON….
Commenter via Facebook says
His comments make little sense. I’m not one to pick on spelling and punctuation as some of the most intelligent people I’ve met can’t do either. But when writing without known or expressed credentials, careless language tends to reduce respect.
The same thing holds true when you muddy your educational credentials. Who says “I have done research as a profession and have journal papers published. I have over a decade of education…” Yeah, well by the time I was a junior in HS, I could say the same thing technically. What education, what papers published in what journals? He’s trying to hard to engender respect while couching his phrases.
And when he says, “sit next to anesthesia, where I sit”. I have no idea what that means other than that he’s not really a medical professional, but he wants you to think he is.
Commenter via Facebook says
Haters gonna hate … a truism because it is true and usually unrelated to subject at hand. Some people are hide-bound and not open to new ideas regardless of their effectiveness. Carry on Kelly, I appreciate your information.
Commenter via Facebook says
He drank the “conventional medical wisdom” kool-aid the was purchased through a grant and medical school funding by big pharmaceutical companies.
Commenter via Facebook says
If he has so much issue with your posts, I suggest he doesn’t read them anymore!
Commenter via Facebook says
Sugar is the silent assassin.
Commenter via Facebook says
Well, his ego has touted his philosophy for this long and he apparently feels a need to defend it. Eventually, he’ll go back to science and realize he’s wrong. No need to worry…he’ll get there, but on his time.
Commenter via Facebook says
Erm, the brain is made of saturated fat. That is just a fact. Where is the common sense in people??? Oh, that’s right…there is fluoride in the water. SMH
Commenter via Facebook says
Statins stop the liver from creating an enzyme needed in cholesterol production. That same enzyme helps the body metabolize CoQ10. Without CoQ10 the heart fails. So statins will eventually cause heart failure. Cholesterol is part of the healing process and is a component of every cell membrane in the body. Lowering it artificially stops the body from healing properly and from producing healthy cells. Statins save lives? Yeah, right. Maybe if heart disease was caused by high cholesterol. But it isn’t.
Commenter via Facebook says
Your body produces cholesterol for a reason or two. Steroid hormones which are vital to our existence, it produces bile which aides in digestion to metabolize fat which can cause issues with the heart, and it is in every cell as a barrier protecting the cells. It is also produced to combat inflammation in the body. Inflammation most likely caused by a poor diet, lack of movement, and overuse of medications.
Commenter via Facebook says
If statins are such life savers why are we still seeing so many heart attacks and strokes (both first timers on preventive meds and repeat “offenders” )? I am an 18 year RN and “highly educated” (bachelor’s degree, working on master’s) and I am a firm believer in the power of foods, the right ones, ability to heal. I eat butter, use coconut oil and eat red meat.
Commenter via Facebook says
As a retired nurse and mom, I would strongly suggest that everyone do the research and decide for themselves. If you would rather take pills with questionable benefits and significant side effects instead of changing your diet and exercising, help yourself. People have lived for Thousands of years on real food and natural remedies; can’t say the same for any drug.
Commenter via Facebook says
he is brain washed!!!! just like my old neighbor who firmly believes glyphosate does no harm – no matter how many opposing studies i send him
Commenter via Facebook says
My husband’s cousin is a cardiologist and believes that my husband and his whole family should be on statins due to their father’s death at age 53 b/c of an aortic aneurysm. The only way we found out that statins could potentially cause diabetes was the additional test his GP was doing when his cholesterol results came back and our insurance would not cover that test (I think, the doc said it was for hypoglycemia). That same day I saw an article online that described that very senario of statin use being linked to diabetes. At that point, I insisted that my husband see a naturopathic doc who specializes in high cholesterol and get him off the statins. Oh, and that cousin who is the cardiologist…we have yet to get into a discussion about it because we know that since we are not doctors ourselves, that conversation would go nowhere. I almost sent him the book Wheat Belly since a cardiologist wrote it. I haven’t gotten up the nerve.
Commenter via Facebook says
Once I gave up processed starches and sugar, full fat helped me lose 35 lbs and bring my blood sugar to normal levels.
Commenter via Facebook says
Funny that people think medicine isn’t pseudoscience.
Commenter via Facebook says
All kinds of strange people work at hospitals ( I do too lol) but I go with the evidence that shows natural fats are good for us
Commenter via Facebook says
Memory loss has also be rebutted. Again, not perfect by any means but where or where is the data that says they don’t save lives? The Heart Protection Study (again, 20k patients) says they do. So does the Scandinavian Simvastain Survival trail (only 4444 patients).
Again, I am all for vegan/vegetarian but for statins have data. And for folks that aren’t likely to go vegan, they are an option.
So “suck.it.” is really pretty childish, and Forbes is not a peer review source thank you.
Commenter via Facebook says
I don’t think such commentors are easily classified. If you happen to subscribe to what is the last 50 years of medical thinking on statins and the lipid hypothesis, teaching an old dog new tricks is rather difficult. They are simply stuck with old outdated science.
Commenter via Facebook says
It’s hard to take someone seriously when they can’t spell and use punctuation properly.
Commenter via Facebook says
For what it’s worth, a plant based diet is probably the best thing ever for health. But don’t spout bullshit about statins when you really haven’t read the scientific literature please. They aren’t perfect at all, and vegan is great, but pseudoscience sucks.
Commenter via Facebook says
That’s so funny that you want a 20,000 person study. See, even though they did that the drug companies and the FDA still missed the fact that statins are incredibly dangerous to women. They had no clue until millions of women all came down with diabetes. Oops. I’ll stick with real food and chuck the drugs.
Commenter via Facebook says
Statins save ppls lives..
By giving them diabetes….
Commenter via Facebook says
Unless you have a 20,000 patient study that says otherwise, yes, stains save lives. 4S, HPS and lots of others show at least a 30% all cause mortality benefit primarily via reductions in cardiac events.
I would be happy to see your large randomized, placebo controlled peer reviewed study that demonstrates statins do not provide benefit.
I don’t know “Jeff” but I am rather familiar with statin data. All drugs have risks, but heart disease has more.
For what it is worth I happily consume grass fed butter when I eat butter and generally follow a vegetarian diet but be careful what “science” you subscribe to.
Commenter via Facebook says
I’d rather eat and drink what my grandparents did and live to 100, than take medical advice and die at 60.
Commenter via Facebook says
WOWZERS!! I was on so many meds for the varying things I had that I had to take meds to counter act those meds – I have since stopped ALL meds and have gotten so much better by going back to what my ancestors ate in the purest forms that they did and that I did as a disease free child. Jeff I was in the traditional medical field and I think YOU are the one who needs to do a little research…
Commenter via Facebook says
Statins pay for vacation homes
Commenter via Facebook says
I’d rather eat full fat than the ingredients in margarine. At least I know what I’m eating!
Commenter via Facebook says
I want real butter not chemicals.
Commenter via Facebook says
I think what he means is “how dare you think for yourself and not take the word of most doctors as gospel. That’s dangerous!” So no, I don’t agree at all.
Commenter via Facebook says
My great grandparents didn’t have any of that crap and they all lived into their 90s. Also I believe the ants are smarter than I am. If an ant won’t eat it, I won’t eat it. Ants won’t even walk over some of the crap that gets passed off as “food” these days.
Commenter via Facebook says
I believe I’d rather eat full fat dairy and I also hear horror stories about statin.
Commenter via Facebook says
Hahahahahahaha! Statins save lives?! Please Jeff… You’re too funny. I love how our science isn’t real because it doesn’t agree with what they want to believe.
Jeff Westover says
Wow you are frightening. You have managed to pepper a little truth in that an inflammatory model is gaining acceptance as one cause of heart attacks with complete BS. Do you have ANY medical training clearly not. If you did you would not be so irresponsible. You go to a hospital and sit next to anesthesia, where I sit and you see a vascular surgeon pull out yellow lard out of a clogged artery and tell me saturated fat and cholesterol are okay. People in this day and age of sedentary life should not be eating full fat dairy. I mean come on people will have heart attacks and stroke because of you. Did you delineate between HDL and LDL nope. Do you even know the difference? You can think whatever crackpot pseudoscience idea you want, but when you spread such manure to other people you can cause harm. I have done research as a profession and have journal papers published. I have over a decade of education and can tell you that a diet high in saturated fat and LDL cholesterol will lead to a shorter life, it is much worse that sugar. Yes sugar will turn to fat but a pound of fat is a pound of fat. A pound of sugar is 4 pounds of fat. The inflammatory model is just one model, the hereditary is another. Statin save people lives. There are multiple reasons you can have a heart attack. Of course you do not want to hear that because it blows up your little “myth”. Perhaps you should get an education before you start endangering gullible peoples heal. You go to school and work at the hospital and you will learn that maybe all the scientists, MDs, RNs know what there are talking about.
E. R. says
For having so much education you would think that you could use punctuation properly as well as the correct form of “their.”
Cholesterol is vital. Taking it out of the diet would not be the right thing to do. Cholesterol gets stuck in the vessels due to damage of the artery walls. To reduce the risk of heart attack, correcting the damage to the vessels would probably be a better solution.
I am an RN, I know how to read scientific literature. Oh wait… It doesn’t agree with you so it must have been published in a pseudoscience journal.
Julie says
You’re deluded, I think I’ll go and eat a stick of butter. Oddly enough I’ve lost 50lbs since I quit eating wheat and grains and have begun eating fat again.
Jen says
Okay, Mr Smarty Pants Jeff, how do explain that when I increased my fat and cholesterol intake my blood cholesterol numbers improved and all kinds of other health issues cleared up, too?
Also, I’ve run into countless older people that scratch their heads, tell me how mystified they are that they STILL needed heart surgery after all these years on a low fat diet.
Or why there are MANY cardiologists going public and writing articles about how WRONG the medical community has been about saturated fat = heart attack.
Shauna says
This issue is so important to me. I whole-heartedly agree with eating whole foods including full-fat dairy and saturated fats. My struggle is with statins. My huysband’s father had his first heart attack at age 30 and died from his third at age 50. His mother also had a heart attack at age 67. They diagnosed him as having a genetic pre-disposition for cholesterol issues and prescribed a statin. He takes the statin, but we eat a traditional or whole foods diet. We just don’t know what to do about the statin. He is 50 now – the age that his father had is 3rd and final heart attack. I wish there were more doctors out there that could be more helpful about this. They are all sold out to the “low-fat/low cholesterol diet myth and so are not helpful to talk to about this. Ugh.
KitchenKop says
Hi Shauna,
Wow, I can understand how scary this must be for you!
My only suggestion is to just research this like CRAZY. Check out the links in this post, read through this one: https://kellythekitchenkop.com/2009/03/statins-after-a-heart-attack.html and also read through the links at this post: https://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/08/healthy-fats-oils.html – hopefully if you and your husband BOTH do this research together (and not just these links from my site, but research many other sites as well), by the time you’re done you’ll know what’s best.
Keep us updated on what you decide, OK?
Kelly
watchmom3 says
Shauna, I worked at a hospital for 30 yrs and I know the damage these drugs can do. I would find a naturopath and go asap and find a way to get him off, if possible. God bless you in your search and journey. It is often about what we put our faith in.. I am not a zealot about alternative medicine, but I have seen things that don’t add up and not many who question…
Jane says
There is a great book “Is Your Cardiologist Killing You” by Dr. Sherry Rogers. It has a wealth of information on heart disease. She goes into great detail on what we need to do to take care of our health in a way that is understandable to the lay person. She includes valuable resources as well. I can’t say enough good things about her. Her books are available on Amazon. I hope this helps. God Bless you.
Julio Zamora says
Thank you for posting this.
Many people are placed on statins that do not need them for precautionary reasons.
Seems like we are so cautious, that we take drugs, and then they become the problem.
Suzy Spears says
Thank you.