Why Cholesterol is Essential for Optimal Health
There's some serious confusion about cholesterol, and whether high cholesterol levels are responsible for heart disease.
There's some serious confusion about cholesterol, and whether high cholesterol levels are responsible for heart disease.
Long criticized wrongly as something evil, a new study just published from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows how important cholesterol is in regulating proteins in cells.
The preoccupation the medical and scientific communities have with cholesterol have convinced many of us, doctors included, that ‘cholesterol is bad’ so ‘cholesterol reduction is good’.
New research flies in the face of a new theory that statin drugs may be of value in those suffering from osteoarthritis, while they actually are likely contributing to the epidemic of knee osteoarthritis in patients.
Have the nerve-damaging properties of statin drugs now been confirmed? There are over 300 adverse health effects associated with the use of statins.
Another cholesterol-lowering drug is in the pipeline. This new drug was approved by the FDA despite concern about its safety and effectiveness.
‘Heart failure’ is a term used by doctors to describe a state where the heart muscle has become quite ineffective at pumping blood around the body. This problem can manifest in a variety of ways.
A new study published in the journal Atherosclerosis found that statin use is associated with a 52% increased prevalence and extent of coronary artery plaques possessing calcium.
We have been led to believe that cholesterol is a major cause of heart disease. A numbers of doctors and researchers have been challenging this hypothesis for decades.
We have all been taught that LDL cholesterol is bad, but new research shows that it might not be as harmful as we believe.