Death by Medicine

Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.  Until now, Life Extension could cite only isolated statistics to make its case about the dangers of conventional medicine. No one had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That has now changed.  A group of…

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How the ‘Cholesterol Hypothesis’ Came to Be

Those who have challenged the importance of LDL cholesterol say we’ve been measuring things incorrectly. What researchers are learning is that cholesterol may not be a direct indicator of heart disease and total cholesterol — the accumulation of three types of fat in the blood — could be a useless metric. Paying attention to triglycerides, however, might be the best number to monitor regarding heart health. Lustig, an outspoken critic…

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