Tag: cholesterol

  • Losing Our Minds, part 2

    Losing Our Minds, part 2

    Losing Our Minds part 1 Yesterday Medscape published an article (Alzheimer’s set to Skyrocket):  “approximately 47 million Americans currently have preclinical AD.  That number is expected to jump to more than 75 million by 2060.”  The numbers are staggering. The article then spoke about the process, or what little we know of the process, of how the disease…

  • Losing our Minds

    Statin medications were approved for use in the US in 1987. Suggested guidelines from 2015 say that 56 million American adults, or almost half those age 40 to 75, should be advised to take statins. A large percentage, about half, of these do, providing revenues in the area of 30 billion a year. Although they…

  • Some Clarity on Cholesterol

    Here are the basic mechanics – the first in a 3 part series on Cholesterol, Fats and Heart disease.  The mis-information is too great, the beliefs are skewed, and the truth is that most of you can eat cheese and butter (and eggs!) and never get heart disease.  But first you have to understand how…