There are times when it seems like the only answer in medicine is another drug. For heart stuff this is unquestionably statins. Have high cholesterol? Take Lipitor. Have a family history of heart disease? Take Crestor. Your dog’s litter mates’ cousins’ owner had a heart attack? Take atorvastatin. You get the idea. But when it […]
Arthritis in the typical 50 or 60 year old is not a surprise, but when it strikes our children it’s something to be heavily concerned about. In general, arthritis that strikes our kids is going to fall into the auto-immune type where the immune system has turned in on itself, attacking the joints of your […]
JUST HOW OFF BASE IS MEDICINE? Keep in mind that this particular article is an editorial. The author is writing for the British Heart Foundation. He believes that the use of a statin can zero out the negative health effects of a Quarter Pounder with cheese and a small milkshake. Have we really come so far down […]
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF STATINS (LIPITOR, CRESTOR, ZOCOR, VYTORIN, etc…)? It should come as no surprise to regular readers of my posts that the research just does not support the use of statins to prevent a first heart attack. The data is very, very weak. Which would be fine if it […]
No one has ever accused me of being a friend of the statin class of drugs to lower cholesterol. An entire eBook devoted to the side effects of statins and natural ways to lower cholesterol that do not involve statins pretty much cinches that. Despite all the continued evidence that statin drugs are only minimally […]
