by | | Diabetes, Heart Health / Cardiovascular Disease
The FDA is now requiring drug companies to add an additional WARNING to their cholesterol-lowering statins (or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors). New studies have shown that statins greatly increase the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes. Statins Increase HbA1C...
by | | Heart Health / Cardiovascular Disease
Go Beyond Cholesterol Testing and Into Genetics Is Cholesterol Testing A Thing of the Past? In the past few decades, standard health care had used basic cholesterol testing as the cornerstone for the treatment of heart disease. However, more than 50 percent of those...
by | | Heart Health / Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the NUMBER ONE PREVENTABLE cause of death in the United States. One of the first symptoms of a Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) is…death. CVD often takes decades to develop. Most standard lipid tests (total cholesterol,...
