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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The following video quickly and easily dispels the popular myth that high cholesterol is the cause of heart disease.  While cholesterol plaque of the blood vessels is involved in the development of heart disease, the amount of arterial […]

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The above video is obviously “tongue-in-cheek”, and my apologies for the sarcasm, but REALLY bad ideas like giving statin drugs to children deserve to be ridiculed.  Yes, childhod obesity is a growing problem and obesity does predispose people of all ages to a long list of chronic health problems.  There […]

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On a regular basis in my practice I see patients who have experienced a sudden onset of severe pain that can eventually be traced to some medication they are taking.  I have previously commented on the painful side-effects of  statin drugs for lowering cholesterol, but they are not the only culprits (it’s just that […]

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While cholesterol continues to be portrayed in the media and in advertisements as a deadly poison to be eliminated at all costs, the real story is gradually making its way to world - and it’s not what the drug companies want you to think!  Here’s a couple of other perspectives on cholesterol from the […]

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Despite all that you’ve heard about high cholesterol being the vilain in heart disease and circulatory disorders, it a very minor player in comparison to a substance called homocysteine.  Homocysteine is a compound produced as a normal part of protein metabolism and it is highly toxic and damaging to several tissues in the body, particularly […]

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