Video Library on Statin Harms and Controversy
Library of videos on statin harms and how the industry continues to suppress the truth about these cholesterol-lowering pills.
Cholesterol Pills (Statins) are Probably Really Bad for Your Brain
Dr. Cate gives you the peer-reviewed research revealing cholesterol pills are much more dangerous to your brain than doctors have been led to believe.
2 Videos Explaining How the AHA Misleads MDs and How Seed Oils Promote Inflammation
I support Zero Acre Farms in their mission to give the world an oil change by helping big food and all of us say goodbye to seed oils. I describe the nature of my relationship in this post.
Creating Fear of Cholesterol: Watch the Docuseries
The origin of the idea that cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart attacks is bizarre. It involves a US President and a former eel physiologist who put cigarettes in the US military K-rations and got millions of WWII soldiers addicted to tobacco.
Pay for Performance
Your Doctor May be Paid to Prescribe Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Do you know what a HEDIS measure is? Most patients don't, and few doctors do. It's a measure of how well your doctor is following certain practice guidelines. 90 percent of insurance companies grade doctors using HEDIS. And it's important to know that these markers include getting your LDL cholesterol numbers down with drugs. If you have diabetes or cardiovascular disease, your doctor can be rewarded for following these rules. On the other hand, doctors who don't will be financially penalized. This is one reason why I do not work with…
Does Every Diabetic Really Need A Cholesterol Pill?
An important study was stopped early, for reasons they don't explain. What has me worried is that the study appears to have stopped just as the death rates rose
More About Cholesterol Pills
Cholesterol pills can disrupt the function of every cell in your body in different ways, as described in this post, impairing brain, kidney, and heart hearth.
Cholesterol Pills – What You Haven’t Heard
You know cholesterol pills will lower your cholesterol. But do you know cholesterol pills don't prevent heart attacks by lowering cholesterol? They work by what the pharmaceutical companies call "a pleitropic effect" meaning they have so many effects we can't understand or predict them all. Isoprene: A Building Block for Cellular Health Cholesterol pills called statins lower cholesterol by blocking the enzyme that forms a chemical required for the earliest steps of cholesterol manufacture, the making of isoprene units. If you can't make isoprene units, you can't make cholesterol. But your body uses isoprene units for a whole bunch of…
