The best-selling book on Heart disease, updated with the latest research and clinical findings on high-fat/ketogenic diets, sugar, genetics, and other factors.
Fact: Statin drugs reduce inflammatio.
Myth: Statin drugs are useful in middle-aged men with coronary artery disease because of its impact on cholesterol.
Fact: Statin drugs do the best job in middle-aged men with coronary disease.
Myth: Statin drugs are useful in men, women, and the elderly.
Fact: Statin drugs can be extremely toxic including causing death.
Myth: Statin drugs are safe.
Fact: There is no data to show That statins have a significant impact on longevity.
Myth: Lowering Cholesterol with statin drugs Will prolong Your life.
Fact: There is no correlation between Cholesterol and Heart attacks.
Myth: High Cholesterol is a predictor of Heart attack.
Fact: Higher Cholesterol protects you from gastrointestinal disease, pulmonary disease, and hemorrhagic stroke. ? Myth: The higher the cholesterol, the shorter the lifespan.
The killer fats are the transfats from partially hydrogenated oils.
Fact: Saturated fats are not dangerous.
Myth: Saturated fat is dangerous.
Fact: Cholesterol is only a minor player in the cascade of inflammation which is a cause of Heart disease.
Facts Myth: High Cholesterol is the cause of Heart disease.
Myths vs.
Best-selling health authors Jonny Bowden, PhD, and Stephen Sinatra, MD, give readers a four-part strategy based on the latest studies and clinical findings for effectively preventing, managing, and reversing Heart disease, focusing on diet, exercise, supplements, and stress and anger management.
The Great Cholesterol Myth reveals the real culprits of Heart disease, including: inflammation, fibrinogen, triglycerides, homocysteine, belly fat, triglyceride to HDL ratios, and high glycemic levels.
Even doctors at leading institutions have been misled for years based on creative reporting of research results from pharmaceutical companies intent on supporting the $31-billion-a-year cholesterol-Lowering drug industry.
Emerging science is showing That Cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of Heart disease and That standard prescriptions for Lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of Heart disease.
However, traditional Heart disease protocols--with their emphasis on Lowering cholesterol--have it all wrong.
Heart disease is the #1 killer.
The best-selling book on Heart disease, updated with the latest research and clinical findings on high-fat/ketogenic diets, sugar, genetics, and other factors
