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The statin that raises your risk of diabetes and cataracts

Post author By Carolyn Gretton
Post date December 21, 2024

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Statins are prescribed to lower cholesterol. But, they come with a laundry list of side effects, including a higher risk of dementia, kidney damage and muscle pain. Now we’re finding some statins increase the risk of diabetes and cataracts…

Tags Cataracts, Cholesterol, Saturday4, Side Effects, Statins, Type 2 Diabetes

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Beef tallow: Benefits, risks and truths behind the trend

Post author By Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC
Post date April 28, 2025

Comfrey ointment made of fresh Symphytum root and rendered pork lard

You can’t scroll through a social media feed without running across someone touting beef tallow’s benefits. From nutrition to skin care, this “ancestral fat” is definitely having its moment. Should you just jump on the bandwagon?

Tags Cholesterol, Fatty Liver, Inflammation, Insulin resistance, Thursday3

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Low omega-3 levels? You might as well be smoking

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date July 14, 2021

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Omega-3 fatty acids are good for your heart. Smoking is bad for your heart. Those are two well-known truths, right? Well, here’s a new and shocking one: Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that low levels of omega-3s are just as powerful in predicting early death as smoking.

Tags Health News, Nutritional Deficiency, Omega-3 Support, Smoking

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Are your iron supplements putting you at risk for a serious skin infection?

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date July 15, 2019

Excess iron can reduce your risk of high cholesterol… which is great. That means it could help prevent heart disease and strokes. But this benefit comes with some baggage… Too much increases your risk of some potentially dangerous skin infections. So how do you get just enough?

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Health News Prescription Drugs

The dark truths about Atorvastatin that some doctors play off as myths

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date June 24, 2019

Recently, I read an online article about 7 common myths surrounding the cholesterol-lowering medication Atorvastatin, also known as Lipitor. The author minimized well-reported adverse side effects to the degree I might expect from a pharmaceutical representative. Let me set the record straight…

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Dangerous pharmacy slip-ups that could kill

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date September 18, 2018

In the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” young George Bailey stops the town pharmacist, who is distraught over the death of his son, from mislabeling a prescription in a way that would have had lethal consequences. Today, things are not that personal, and human error is rampant…

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Improve focus and concentration through meditation

Post author By Dr. Mark Wiley
Post date October 11, 2017

The practice of meditation is thousands of years old and there are many ways to do it. In the U.S. the methods of mindfulness meditation and transcendental meditation are most popular. But, if you’re new to meditation, you might find this method particularly helpful, especially if you need focus…

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