heart disease

Dr David Unwin tweeted about this today : Improving diet gives hope of cancer prevention The video he re-tweeted is this: Eat real food! It's more than merely Obesity, the ingredients of Ultra Processed Food can damage Mitochondria, as can some medications. Better to avoid/prevent the...

John Campbell interviews Dr Aseem Malhotra. Highlights: Insulin resistance associated not only with T2 diabetes , but with 80% of Heart attacks ( more than high Total Cholesterol or high LDL. Prescription medicine side effects are 3rd biggest killer in USA. Absolute versus Relative benefit is...

Zoe Harcombe reviewed this paper today. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/12/e028638 The conclusions of the paper are that high LDL cholesterol is beneficial for survival of heart attacks, heart failure, cancer and other major causes of death. The higher your LDL, the better your chances, just...

Could this spell the end of the cholesterol hypothesis? A long read by Dr.Malcom Kendrick Article is too big to copy n paste into this thread. See link below...

Hi Everybody, Did a post on this earlier under Diabetes Discussion 'new therapies?' but see this might be the best place for it. Clemson University researchers published a way of reversing hardening of the arteries in Chronic Kidney Disease, and it seems to apply for wider diabetes where...

Has anybody seen the Clemson University breakthrough on reversing hardening of the arteries in Chronic Kidney Disease? CKD occurs in a lot diabetes patients and so does hardening of the arteries. It's a major cause of mortality and quality of life issues, so reversing it is a breakthrough for...

Experts Say High Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease Not sure if this has been cited elsewhere: https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/experts-say-high-cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease-595056/ Major quote from the expert reviewers: “in our analysis of three major reviews, that claim...

Looks like we've been mislead rather: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/

This is an awesome forum I have been following awhile- its 50 years ahead of diabetes education in Australia! I'm 'diet controlled type 2', in fact my numbers often show I'm 'not diabetic' but the symptoms are still there, I have hypos (two nearly killed me as they are not widely recognised in...

Great site. Thank you. Wish I could follow DBUK advice Me 67yo male T2 for 21 years, on dialysis for 30 months waiting for kidney transplant. Got all the usual diabetic troubles, ageing body cardio hypertension hypos bloods all mostly self-inflicted. My problem is lifestyle. Wrong foods...

Do Statins Raise Odds for Type 2 Diabetes? Maybe, but heart benefits likely outweigh any potential risk from the drugs, experts say Listen By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins may lower your risk of...