If you have high cholesterol, cutting your butter, eggs, and cheese may not be the right thing to do.
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No more free lunch for doctors
I’ve seen a lot of comments on the web about doctors getting free lunches from pharmaceutical companies as an explanation for why we hand out so many prescriptions. I don’t actually know anyone in my group of 30 or so doctors who sees drug reps anymore. The programming by we are influenced these days is [...]
Do you want your doctor to think for herself?
Does a good doctor think for himself, or rely on expert opinion? Who are the experts? Should their ties to industry be available to the public?
Statins and Heart Failure: A Deadly Mix?
If you are one of the five million people in the US with heart failure and you are taking a cholesterol-lowering drug called a statin (examples are lipitor, crestor, vytorin, zocor), you should know about two studies that your doctor probably hasn’t read. One is called CORONA and the other GISSI-HF. These two large studies [...]
The Lipid Cycle
Overview of The Lipid Cycle The lipoproteins must deliver fatty nutrients to the tissues that need them, and then be removed from circulation (by the liver) when spent. The cycle is continual, with new nutrients entering into circulation by way of the liver, the skin, and many other tissues, on a continual basis. Major inputs [...]
