When I was in college, healthcare costs were 11-12% of gross domestic product. Currently these costs are 18.3% (2021)… remember that healthcare costs inflate and the gross domestic product also keeps growing, but each does not grow at the same rate. There is no way that our current medical technology (drugs, CT scans, MRIs, cardiacContinue reading “Highly processed foods and fructose intake lead to elevated insulin levels and mitochondrial dysfunction, which, in turn, lead to 80% of chronic illnesses in the US.”
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Bempedoic acid (Nexletol and a combination pill called Nexlizit)…a new cholesterol lowering drug for people who don’t tolerate statins…
Cardiovascular and lipid experts don’t talk about this enough… for many years we’ve had several drugs that lower cholesterol or triglycerides but don’t improve morbidity or mortality (heart attacks, coronary artery stents, coronary artery bypass, strokes, and deaths). Statins lower LDL cholesterol and raise HDL cholesterol and show improvements in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. ThisContinue reading “Bempedoic acid (Nexletol and a combination pill called Nexlizit)…a new cholesterol lowering drug for people who don’t tolerate statins…”
I CAN…
help you to be less depressed and less anxious, but I cannot make you happy. help you have fewer cravings for your addictive substances, but I cannot make you clean and sober. help you decrease the risk of a second heart attack and stroke, but I cannot take away your atherosclerotic artery disease. help decreaseContinue reading “I CAN…”