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Here are the posts on the topic of statins here on DrCate.com

All Statin Articles

The following articles are about Statins or include a mention of the term.

Who Teaches Doctors About Cholesterol-lowering Drugs?

Table of ContentsThe Incredible Shrinking LDL Cholesterol TargetThe Perils of Low CholesterolDoctors Writing LDL Cholesterol Guidelines Need Money for ResearchIndependent Physicians Call for Less Aggressive Cholesterol-Lowering GuidelinesWell-funded Experts Slam Independent ReviewersDoctors Unaware or Unconcerned About Conflicts of Interest in ScienceConflicted Journal Editors Don’t Print the Whole TruthWhat Can You Do? It might seem like the…

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.

Deep Nutrition

In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.

Statisticians Can Easily Mislead Doctors About Statin (or any) Drug Safety

Doctors don’t go to medical school to become expert at interpreting statistics. Yet most of the articles that tell us how safe drugs might be rely on complex statistical analyses that go far beyond what I learned in my one credit course on Statistics for Medical Practitioners.

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High Cholesterol and Breast Cancer: Is there a connection?

Cholesterol is now blamed for breast cancer. Learn what the science quoted in the media actually says.

Statin side effects: Almost universal and often missed.

One of the most distressing things about practicing medicine these days is the blind faith that most people, doctors and patients, have in cholesterol pills like Lipitor, Crestor, Vytorin, and Zocor, just to name a few of the most popular statin drugs available today. This faith comes not from gullibility, but from carefully crafted drug…

Statin Side Effects Slowing You Down? Why your doctor may not be able to help.

When insurance companies pay doctors based on their prescribing patterns, you may not be told about potential medication side effects. This is particularly true when it comes to side effects of cholesterol medications called statins.

How starting a low-cholesterol diet leads to weight gain

The advice to cut cholesterol almost always leads to eating more carbs, which increases triglyceride and often LDL levels, which leads to being placed on cholesterol pills, which can cause diabetes.

Statins and Heart Failure: A Deadly Mix?

If you have been diagnosed with heart failure, statin drugs, which most cardiologists will prescribe to you if your cholesterol levels are not where they recommend, may need to be stopped.

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…

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

Cholesterol Pills For Kids – Stop The Madness!

I went for a job interview and was told that if I failed to get my patients LDL levels down to 100 (with drugs) “someone will sit down and talk with you.”

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…

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