Posts Tagged ‘Statins’
|Diet changes improve older adults’ cholesterol too
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Tags: aging, alternative treatment, Cholesterol, Diet, HDL, LDL, lifestyle, naturopathic treatment, Statins, triglycerides
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Pomegranate Juice Interacts With Medications
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
A man taking Crestor and Zetia started consuming pomegranate juice and three weeks later was admitted to the emergency room with a creatine kinase level of 138,030 U/L. Normal is < 200 U/L.
Tags: alternative cholesterol treatment, Cholesterol, Crestor, drug supplement interaction, natural cholesterol treatment, naturopathic cholesterol treatment, pomegranate juice, Statins, Zetia
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Do Statin Drugs Cause Vitamin D Deficiency?
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Ninety-two percent of patients who were given statin drugs for muscle pain were relieved of all pain after they were given 50,00 IU of vitamin D for 12 weeks.
Tags: Cholesterol, Statins, vitamin D
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Naturopathic Views on Statins
Sunday, October 16th, 2005
Listen to Statins Podcast
In this podcast, Portland naturopathic doctors, Dr. Greg Eckel and Dr. Greg Nigh discuss statins, drugs that are prescribed to lower cholesterol. They discuss what the risks are in using statins to balance out the cholesterol, rather than addressing the underlying cause of the imbalance. Drugs are the most common way that conventional medicine will use to address high cholesterol. They will explain to you the naturopathic way of addressing it through fixing the underlying cause of the elevated cholesterol, which will ultimately give you the ability to bring your cholesterol level back down, in a way that is healthy, safe and often permanent.
Tags: Cardiovascular disease, Cholesterol, Dr. Greg Eckel, Dr. Greg Nigh, HDL, LDL, lipitor, Statins
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CRP, Diet, and Drugs
Friday, May 27th, 2005
Conventional medicine has long used cholesterol levels to determine heart disease risk. Millions and millions of people are prescribed one of the statin drugs (Lipitor, Lovastatin, etc) only because their cholesterol measures over 200. Statins are also said to have anti-inflammatory effects as well, and so are being heralded as wonder drugs for those with heart disease.
However, over the past few years medical researchers have found that another lab marker, called C-reactive protein (CRP) is more predictive of heart disease risk than cholesterol. CRP levels indicate the amount of inflammation happening in the arteries, and heart disease is much more likely in those whose level of inflammation is elevated. (more…)
Tags: C-reactive protein, Cholesterol, CRP, Diet, Heart disease, Nutrition, Statins
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