It is now clear that cholesterol lowering drugs cause diabetes. But the proponents have clearly stated that the risk was in those already at risk. Ironically, pretty much everyone with cholesterol issues is, to some degree, already on his or her way to developing diabetes. Giving a drug that is now proven to push patients […]
Despite all the less-than-stellar research on cholesterol lowering drugs, the powers-that-be want us to take even more of it. The latest “cholesterol guidelines” released late in 2013 have drastically increased the number of patients who would potentially be given a statin. They have finally dropped the fallacy that total cholesterol has any value (you know–total […]
Everyone’s doin’ it. TV ads say you should be doin’ it. Your doctor says you should be doin’ it. But should you really take aspirin for your heart? For a very long time, this answer was a strong, positive “YES.” After all-aspirin thins the blood so it would make sense for aspirin to lower your […]
IS YOUR MIGRAINE DANGEROUS? Other than the obvious brain tumor causing a headache (which is actually not common for some brain tumors like gliomas), the answer is YES. First off, let’s clarify something. Many, if not most, patients who come in telling me they have a migraine do not actually, have migraines. Most are tension […]
Despite the complete lack of evidence about whether it has any benefit, a day does not go by that I don’t hear a commercial on the radio for male sexual dysfunction. By the end of the commercial, you are led to believe that the only reason for male sexual dysfunction is low T. Even worse, […]
