A Statin-Free Life: A revolutionary life plan for tackling heart disease – without the use of statins

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Going back to more traditional ways of eating is a very powerful step in preventing or managing heart disease.

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He also introduces another way of understanding doctor-patient relationships whereby the patient is informed of the exact risk that not taking a given pill represents and compares it to the drawbacks of taking it and then decides freely, as opposed to a doctor dictating what to take and fear-mongering the patient into compliance.

Depending on your cholesterol levels and how healthy you are otherwise, you and your doctor or nurse might want you to try to bring your cholesterol levels down with a healthy diet and lifestyle first, before starting statins. In his new book, The Simple Heart Cure: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease, you’ll find this top doc’s groundbreaking, three-pronged approach to prevent and reverse heart disease — an approach honed by his study of cultures free of heart disease, and his decades of experience helping thousands of patients achieve a healthier heart at any age. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading - or even false? Dr Aseem Malhotra, author of the bestselling The 21-Day Immunity Plan and co-author of the bestselling The Pioppi Diet, examines the claims for statins and their role in lowering cholesterol and preventing heart disease.

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I found the sections about what your cholesterol numbers really mean was especially informative and not always explained by doctors. Fact: Cholesterol is only a minor player in the cascade of inflammation which is a cause of heart disease. You should have check-ups with your doctor or nurse and have blood tests to see how well your statins are working. Statin drugs and our overexaggerated fear of cholesterol’s role in heart disease (9:14 / 6:00)Are heart-attack and heart-disease death rates decreasing?

You will still be protected from pregnancy, but this could increase your chances of side effects from contraceptive pills.

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In this remarkable book on wellness, the two doctors tell us exactly how to lose weight, lose it quickly, and lose it forever.

After starting a statin, it takes about six weeks for cholesterol levels to stabilise, so most doctors would re-check your cholesterol after about eight weeks. when I subsequently saw a consultant cardiologist she said that she wouldn't recommend statins for me based on the results of my blood tests, and I am continuing to try to manage my risk factors through diet/exercise/reducing stress, etc. If you start taking statins, you’ll need to keep taking them in the long term – as your cholesterol levels will rise again if you stop taking them. If you take another type of statin, limit your intake of grapefruit juice to very small quantities or you may want to avoid it altogether. 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.

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It keeps your cells more sensitive to insulin and therefore means there’s less insulin required to maintain your blood glucose in normal range, and therefore less damage to the cells of the inner lining of the heart arteries. Fact–Cholesterol is only a minor player in the cascade of inflammation which is a cause of heart disease. What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change. If you want to stop taking your medicine, it's important to find another way to lower your cholesterol. As well as lowering your LDL-cholesterol, statins can lower your triglycerides too, and high triglycerides are linked to liver disease, heart disease and diabetes.

He presents more information that confirms that heart attacks are not caused by higher cholesterol levels especially in people over 75. Drinking more than the recommended weekly amount of alcohol (14 units) increases your risk of feeling more side effects. However, traditional heart disease protocols—with their emphasis on lowering cholesterol—have it all wrong.