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Saturated Fat: The Great Debate

Follow the series “Debunking the Fat Dogma” here. In this series, we will break down the actual health effects of vegetable oils and whether they are better alternatives to saturated fats. Follow this series to find out whether what you are using to cook with is really the best option. For more than half a century,…


Are Vegetable Oils Killing Us? We Swapped Them in for Animal Fats 50 Years Ago

Our switch from cooking with animal fats, like butter, to cooking with vegetable oils runs back more than fifty years. It was thought that this would lower cholesterol and the rate of heart attacks. Has switching to vegetable oils benefited our health overall or is the trend going the other way? Dr. Joseph Mercola says…


Do Eggs Raise Your Cholesterol?

For years, there have been debates in the nutritional world about how healthy it is to eat eggs. Some people believe that eggs can cause cardiovascular disease due to their high cholesterol content and say that you can eat egg whites but not egg yolk. Dr. Wu Hongqian, the author of “Egg Therapy,” deciphers the…


U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Amgen in Patent War

In a closely watched patent battle, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled against California-based drugmaker Amgen, affirming a lower court’s decision that Amgen’s French rival Sanofi didn’t infringe on patents on a cholesterol-lowering antibody drug. The long-running feud involves two rival drugs: Praluent, developed by Sanofi and New York partner Regeneron and greenlit…


Why Dietary Cholesterol Is Important, Plus Recipes

Cholesterol is not the evil, dietary monster it is made out to be! It is one of the most misunderstood substances on the planet, and consuming it in your diet could be lifesaving. We would not be able to survive without it because it is such a vital nutrient. Cholesterol, located in the plasma membrane…


Does Eating Eggs Increase Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease?

Recently, there has been a sort of mini-crisis from egg shortages in several countries around the world. The price of eggs has soared in the United States, and in Taiwan, people have had to wait in line to buy eggs. All this fuss about eggs may have you wondering whether eggs are really an indispensable…


You May Not Need Statins, Even With Elevated ‘Bad’ Cholesterol

For decades, the answer to lowering cholesterol to prevent heart attack or stroke was a statin prescription. Unfortunately, many people prescribed statins stop taking them due to side effects, while others question their efficacy. One study even found that doctors have overprescribed statins worldwide, which can potentially be harmful. Is statin therapy suitable for you? A…


Animal Fat Might Not Be Bad for You

We have been led to believe that consuming saturated fat increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, but is this really the case? There is another harmful fat hidden in many delicious foods, but it is usually overlooked. Saturated Fat May Not Be the ‘Culprit’ of High Blood Lipids Saturated fats from lard and coconut oil…


Cardiologist Speaks Truth About Cholesterol and Statins

Is elevated cholesterol really a problem? In a word, absolutely! However, beyond that assertion, there is a lot about cholesterol that is little known or completely misunderstood. Elevated cholesterol levels feed the growth of obstructive plaques in the coronary arteries, and the higher the cholesterol levels, generally, the more rapid the growth of the plaques. Very elevated…


Berberine: One of the Most Powerful Tools We Have to Regulate Insulin

While at the Brownstone Institute retreat near Hartford, Connecticut this weekend, I heard Dr. Paul Marik speak on repurposed drugs. Of course, this has been one of my passions since the Ebola outbreak of 2014, with the realization that a safe and effective vaccine could not be developed fast enough for any newly emergent highly…