Is it True that Eggs are as Bad for Your Arteries as Smoking? By Dr. Mercola Recently, news headlines were ablaze with startling information that eggs are nearly as bad for your arteries as cigarettes. After surveying more than 1,200 seniors, the researchers concluded that eating egg yolks on a regular basis is approximately two-thirds [...]
Do YOU Take Any of These 11 Dangerous Cholesterol Drugs? By Dr. Mercola Tens of millions of Americans are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs—mostly statins—and some “experts” claim that many millions more should be taking them. I couldn’t disagree more. Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, that is, they act by blocking the enzyme in your liver that [...]
LOW CHOLESTEROL AND MEMORY LOSS By Dr. Duane Graveline, M.D. MPH (Master of Public Health), from Spacedoc.com “Brain fog” when on statins has been widely reported and is one of the more common side effects. Do not let your doctor tell you it does not happen. Some researchers say the incidence of statin associated cognitive [...]
ALL ABOUT CHOLESTEROL AND LIPITOR by Dr. Mercola Cholesterol could easily be described as the smoking gun of the last two decades. It’s been responsible for demonizing entire categories of foods (like eggs and saturated fats) and blamed for just about every case of heart disease in the last 20 years. Yet when I first [...]
The Study was published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. If you are taking a “statin”: “Lipitor”, “Zocor” etc. you should talk to your doctor. High Doses of Cholesterol Drugs Raise Risk of Diabetes, Researchers Find By Michelle Fay Cortez, from Bloomberg “People who take high doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs such as [...]
Should People without Heart Disease Take Statins? By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. If you have had a heart attack and take statins to lower cholesterol, you probably should continue to do so. Statins help to prevent further heart attacks and strokes. However, if you have never had heart disease and are taking statins to help prevent [...]
LIPITOR — MOST FAMOUS “STATIN” FDA adds diabetes, memory loss warnings to statins Tue Feb 28, 2012 By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson From Reuters See Dr. Pinna’s comments below… Health regulators are adding warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, [...]
Statins Can Cause Diabetes Statins are the most prescribed medications in the world because they help to prevent heart attacks. However, a review of the medical literature shows that statins are associated with a nine percent increased risk of developing diabetes, and the higher the dose, the more likely they are to cause diabetes (Current [...]
