In this interview, Dr. Duane Graveline, a family doctor with 23 years experience and a former astronaut, discusses the health implications of cholesterol, statin drugs, and coenzyme Q10.
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by Dr. Mercola
Dr. Mercola’s Comments:
Dr. Graveline has an interesting background that makes him particularly suited to speak on the topic […]
from Healthy Diets And Science
High cholesterol, rather than being a malignant condition that would predict a short life expectancy, is actually associated with higher longevity, and not only with longevity but also with a healthy life. Below are the stastistics for healthy life expectancy from 163 countries.
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The association between higher cholesterol […]
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Past studies have noted that milk, even though it is high in saturated fat, does not appear to increase risk of heart disease. Could the saturated fat in milk have some effect that doesn’t increase total and bad cholesterol?
Research coming out of the University of Copenhagen suggests that milk might actually help maintain […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments:
Sheldon Zerden uncovers old research linking hypothyroidism to heart disease. Since he makes a correct observation that the medical system in place today only treats the symptoms rather than the disease when it comes to heart disease, and that the cholesterol myth and statin drugs are much more profitable, and […]
by Dr. Mercola
People without heart disease get little or no benefit from cholesterol-lowering statins, researchers have warned.
A review of the medical literature showed that many of the reports they looked at — including all but one of the reports funded by drugmakers — were seriously flawed. Only half provided information on the side effects […]
by Mark Hyman, MD
THE SINGULAR FOCUS on treating cholesterol as a means to prevent heart attacks is leading to the deaths of millions of people because the real underlying cause of the majority of heart disease is not being diagnosed or treated by most physicians. For example, I recently saw a patient named Jim […]
by Stephan Guyenet
The diet-heart hypothesis states three things:
Dietary saturated fat increases blood cholesterol
Elevated blood cholesterol increases the risk of having a heart attack
Therefore, dietary saturated fat increases the risk of having a heart attack
To evaluate the second contention, investigators have examined the relationship between blood cholesterol and heart attack risk. Many studies including MRFIT […]
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.*
Joseph Goebbels (pictured left)
Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that […]
