Heart Attack
Why Grandma Was Right About Vegetables
Your grandmother may have told you to eat your vegetables. Ours certainly urged us to do so. If she did, she was right. Vegetables and fruits are good sources of flavanols, plant compounds that appear…
Show 1478: The Outdoor Prescription for Fighting…
Too many of us are spending our days staring at screens. Little screens on our phones, big screens on the television, medium-size screens on our computers at work. Our modern lifestyles mean that we s…
FDA Testosterone Reversal: Were Men Misled for a…
For more than a decade, federal regulators frightened doctors and patients about testosterone. They warned that this hormone might trigger heart attacks and strokes, fuel prostate cancer and worsen an…
COVID Vaccine Benefits: Did the CDC Try to Bury …
Americans love to hate vaccines. These days few medical topics generate as much anger, suspicion and outright hostility. That is why the latest evidence about COVID vaccine benefits may be hard for s…
Shingles Vax Reduces Risk of Heart Attack, Strok…
The anti-vaccine movement has been gaining momentum, but there is growing evidence that the shingles vax offers benefit far beyond protection against shingles. Several studies have demonstrated that t…
Diet and Exercise Prevent Diabetes as Well as Me…
Is There a Way to Prevent Diabetes? Fifteen years ago, a study called the Diabetes Prevention Program showed that diet and exercise work as well to prevent diabetes among high-risk individuals as taki…
What Are the Health Benefits of Coffee and Choco…
Americans have a puritanical streak. This way of thinking suggests that if something hurts or tastes bad, it must be good for you. Conversely, if it tastes good, you might conclude it's bad for you. T…
Which Diuretic is Best for Hypertension? HCTZ or…
When a patient is diagnosed with high blood pressure that is not controlled by diet, exercise or other lifestyle interventions, doctors start writing prescriptions. One of their first-line drugs is al…
VERVE-102: One-and-Done Cholesterol Cure–Mirac…
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 25, 2026) is generating huge headlines about a cholesterol "cure." VERVE-102 is a one-dose gene-editing therapy that is capable of producing very lo…
Why Didn’t Statins Protect Dad from Clogge…
Most cardiologists take it as absolute fact that cholesterol is a bad actor in the heart disease saga. They believe that LDL cholesterol in particular is responsible for causing clogged coronary arter…
Why Haven’t Statins Stopped Heart Disease?
Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. Atorvastatin (Lipitor) alone is taken by nearly 30 million people. If you add simvastatin, rosuvastatin, pravastatin and lovastatin, you get more than…
Lowering LDL Cholesterol Isn’t Enough: The Hid…
Most cardiologists believe that elevated levels of “bad” LDL are the number one cause of heart disease. The solution: lower the LDL cholesterol, prevent heart attacks! For many decades this idea d…
Shingrix Dementia Prevention: New Research &…
If your family and friends have escaped dementia, you are among the lucky ones. Almost everyone I talk to knows someone who has experienced the challenges of cognitive decline. More than 7 million Ame…
Cooking Oil Confusion: What’s Best, Olive,…
Health professionals have been confusing Americans about food for decades. We were told that cholesterol and fat were our enemies. Eggs, shrimp, nuts and olive oil were bad. That led the food industry…
Drug Effectiveness: The Missing Number Behind Ev…
You might assume that drug effectiveness would be one of the most important things a doctor would discuss when writing a new prescription. That almost never happens. Patients may be told what a medici…
Australians Live Longer with Vigorous Activity
New research shows you get a big boost from even a few minutes of vigorous activity. Of course, an exercise program that gets you to the gym several times a week is great. But even running up the stai…
Will Nexletol (Bempedoic Acid) Replace Statins?
Statins overwhelmingly dominate pharmacy sales. At last count, over 50 million people take statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs such as atorvastatin, rosuvastatin and and simvastatin. That does not …
Heart Disease and Stroke = Our # 1 Killers! What…
Last January the American Heart Association (AHA) reported its latest stats on heart disease and stroke (Circulation, Jan. 21, 2026; JACC, Jan. 12, 2026). The analysis revealed that 915,973 Americans …
Sauna Bathing, Immune Stimulation and Other Heal…
Finnish researchers have been studying the health benefits of sauna bathing for years. A study published several years ago in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings reviewed the evidence for cardiovascular and o…
Make Sure Your Vegetarian Diet Is High Quality
A vegetarian diet can be beneficial, but the quality of the diet matters. Last year, a meta-analysis of 25 randomized controlled trials covering more than 3.5 million participants found that there can…
High-Dose Flu Vaccines Against Dementia: New Dat…
The idea seems almost too simple: prevent infections, protect the brain! Yet a new study in the journal Neurology (April 1, 2026) suggests that seniors who receive a high-dose flu shot may be less lik…
The Dangers of Diclofenac and Other NSAID Pain R…
Doctors love NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). That’s largely because they don’t have a lot of other tools in the toolkit when it comes to treating pain and inflammation. Opioids have…
How to Improve Cholesterol and Triglycerides wit…
After several decades of striving to avoid fat in general, Americans have finally gotten the memo: some fat is good for us! Scientists have been studying omega-3 fatty acids for decades. Now many folk…
PPI Side Effects: Fearmongering or Legitimate Wa…
Millions of people rely on proton pump inhibitors to calm heartburn and heal ulcers. But when researchers warn about possible PPI side effects, are they offering prudent advice, or just fearmongering?…
Could a Zero Calcium – CAC Score – Mean You …
Statins are routinely prescribed for anyone with an elevated LDL cholesterol. That includes people who no family history or symptoms of heart disease. What if a person’s arteries appear completely f…
Can the Flu Trigger a Heart Attack? Fever Today,…
Cholesterol has taken the hit for heart attacks for decades. But what if a virus is sometimes the spark? During a nasty flu season, like the one we are now experiencing, new evidence suggests influenz…
Will Certo and Grape Juice Help Your Sore Knees?
People with sore joints face a terrible dilemma. Pain interferes with quality of life. On the other hand, medications like diclofenac and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can make p…
Show 1460: Calming Chronic Inflammation Without …
Inflammation is a double-edged sword. When you have a sudden injury or infection, your body responds by calling immune cells to the site of the problem. It may become red, swollen and painful, but all…
Treating Gout with Drugs Benefits Heart Health
Gout is a common inflammatory disease that is just now starting to get the attention it deserves. Roughly 4% of adult Americans suffer from gout attacks, at least from time to time, Scientists believe…
New Dietary Guidelines Flip-Flop on Saturated Fa…
If you aren’t bewildered, perhaps even exasperated, by the constant contradictions in nutrition advice, we would be astonished. People often assume the experts know for certain, but doctors, dietiti…
Will Semaglutide Prevent Heart Attacks & St…
Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss are now familiar brand names for the pharmaceutical compound semaglutide. Seven years ago, when Ozempic was first introduced to treat type 2 diabetes, d…
Will Reversing Prediabetes Save Your Heart and K…
The high blood sugar of diabetes is associated with damage to the heart and kidneys. Just how much does slightly elevated blood sugar, termed prediabetes, affect health? Doctors define prediabetes as …
Aspirin and Cancer: The Overlooked Protection Hi…
When you think of aspirin you probably think of 1) a pain reliever, 2) a fever reducer and 3) heart attack protection for high-risk patients. But for more than three decades, we have been talking abou…
Saturated Fat Reconsidered: New Research Challen…
Have you ever heard the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"? It's not true. Many old dogs learn new tricks with the right training and motivation. It turns out that it could be a lot harder…
Possible Brain Side Effects of Repatha to Lower …
In 2015, the FDA approved evolocumab (Repatha) based on its remarkable ability to lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol. It was initially intended for people with inherited high cholesterol or those at ve…
Chelation Therapy: Hope, Hype, and the Latest He…
, iChelation therapy for heart disease has been controversial for decades. It has been praised by some as a lifesaver and dismissed by many cardiologists as quackery. Mainstream medicine has mostly in…
Are Some Vegetable Oils Worse than Saturated Fat…
For decades, the number one dietary evil in America has been saturated fat (sat fat). Ask most doctors and nutrition experts the one thing you should remove from your diet over everything else, and yo…
Rethinking Saturated Fat: Were Nutrition Experts…
For more than 50 years, saturated fat has been portrayed as the primary culprit behind heart disease. Nutrition experts we admire and have interviewed many times are absolutely convinced that sat fat …
FDA Approves Heart Benefits for Wegovy Weight Lo…
Obesity is a world-wide problem. It’s no wonder, then, that injectable drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) have become incredibly popular. Last year, Wegovy…
Rosuvastatin Linked to High Blood Sugar
Statin medications lower cholesterol; doctors prescribe them to lower the risk for a heart attack. While people likely to suffer a heart attack generally welcome the protection, others may weigh the c…