Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pomegranate: Anti-cancer, protects the heart and cardiovascular system
Blueberry: Lowers high cholesterol, protects the nervous system from oxidative damage (many people can eliminate statin drugs by eating more blueberries)
Acai: Anti-cancer, reduces digestive cancer risk, supports healthy nervous system function
Noni: Extremely potent anti-cancer, immune-boosting fruit (tastes terrible, though, if it's real)
Cherry: Anti-inflammatory. Reduces or ends arthritis pain. Anthocyanins are also anti-cancer. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 A ten-month study evaluated the effect of aged garlic extract (AGE) on the lipid profiles of men with moderately high cholesterol. Platelet adhesion and fibrinogen (makes blood sticky, increasing risk of clotting) was reduced by approximately thirty percent in subjects taking AGE.
REDUCED RISK OF PREECLAMPSIA DURING PREGNANCY: Researchers in London found that garlic may help to boost the birth weight of babies and decrease preeclampsia complications at birth.
CANCER: Nearly thirty studies have shown that garlic has some cancer-preventive effect. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Okay, so let us say you have a disease like high blood pressure, high cholesterol or maybe your physician says you are obese. At this point, you can join a weight-loss program and write off the cost of the enrollment or other fees to participate; however, you cannot write off diet food as a part of the program. Joining a fitness club or purchasing a piece of home exercise equipment to achieve your goals doesn't meet the IRS definition of a weight-loss program. So, you can go on an approved diet and get a deduction, but if you want to exercise you're ineligible. |
| But consider how obesity, coupled with physical inactivity, dramatically increases the risk of developing heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea and various types of cancers.3
As was the case with my father who drank, smoked and ate poorly for years until one of the arteries in his leg clogged and threatened his life, few take the potential of disease seriously until diagnosed with one. Will you wait to make the same ill-fated choice or will you change your mindset and lifestyle to improve your quality of life today? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sometimes people have high cholesterol and they're very concerned about it. If it's all HDL that's fabulous, or even if it's mostly HDL.
A lot of people out there may have high cholesterol. Check your lipid panel or lipid profile and get the different subsets. See what your LDL is, see what your HDL is. A combination of things makes up the cholesterol.
Mike: Can you tell our viewers what a healthy HDL is?
Goodman: We have National Cholesterol Education, or NCEP, guidelines for where your HDL should be. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One person I spoke with had been given a prescription for a high cholesterol drug by his doctor, and was told that changing his diet alone could only lower his cholesterol 10 points. He was told he would need to be on statin drugs for the rest of his life. Refusing to believe that information, he did not fill the prescription and instead started altering his diet, removing animal products, cheese and fried foods, and boosting his consumption of blueberries and other nutrient-dense superfoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At the beginning of the ad, the actors' lives appear to be in total disarray while they're suffering from some symptom (such as migraine headaches, restless legs, high cholesterol or whatever). Then, after getting on the drug, the actor's life is magically transformed into a state of perfection: They're happy, everything is cheery, life is glorious, all their personal relationships are suddenly successful, and so on.
Of course, the narration never directly says these drugs will transform your life and make you a happy, youthful, organized and successful person. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Anyone taking prescription drugs, especially statin drugs for high cholesterol, needs to be taking a superfood supplement like LivingFuel Rx Super Greens. Why? Because most prescription drugs -- and statin drugs in particular -- cause nutritional deficiencies. LivingFuel Rx Super Greens helps overcome those deficiencies, giving your body the nutrients it needs to return to full health.
"I strongly recommend LivingFuel Rx Super Greens to anyone who wants to improve their health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Giving a patient something, even something that is inert, and telling them it will help them causes positive changes in about one-third of all medical conditions, including depression, blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes and more. The placebo effect works on just about everything.
Yet, conventional doctors dismiss this. They do not understand it and, in fact, misuse it. That is where they first do harm to patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's a few thousand dollars a year. Have high cholesterol? Another few thousand. Got cancer? Fork over several thousand dollars each month for yet more chemicals sold at monopoly prices to a nation of health consumers who have been financially enslaved as Indentured Servants. I once talked to a cancer patient who was about to fork over $14,000 per injection for an experimental cancer drug! That person's life savings would have been wiped out in just one month while enriching the richest corporations in the world: drug companies.
Modern medicine is the new indentured servant plantation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Lowers high cholesterol.
Repairs "sludge blood" and reverses "sticky blood".
Boosts the oxygenation of your blood.
Eases inflammation and soothes arthritis pain.
Protects the body from oxidative stress.
Prevents kidney stones and protects the body from oxalates in coffee and tea.
Alkalizes the body, helping to balance overly acidic dietary habits.
Cures ulcers, IBS, Crohn's disease and other digestive disorders.
Reduces high blood pressure natural, by treating the cause, not just the symptoms.
Nourishes the body with minerals, vitamins, enzymes and glyconutrients. |
| When you consider that blueberries are also powerful cholesterol-lowering medicines, you realize why the Good Cause Wellness Aloe Vera + Blueberry product is such a smart idea: Both ingredients lower high cholesterol! Plus, this is far safer than using statin drugs, which have extremely harmful negative side effects while depleting the body of nutrients such as CoQ10.
My advice to anyone on statin drugs is to strongly consider using high doses of aloe vera + blueberries to safety transition off statin drugs (all under the supervision of a naturopathic physician, of course). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Then when you combine our self-inflicted obesity with the lack of physical activity, you get an elevated risk for a variety of diseases, such as high blood pressure (which can lead to blowing a gasket in your brain with a stroke) or high cholesterol (which quietly and without warning clogs your
Obesity: Fact or Fiction? arteries until the restricted blood flow causes you to drop on the floor in agony while clutching your chest because you are having a heart attack) or in some cases, you just die. I know that sounds harsh, but these are the consequences related to our actions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In modern medical lingo, any statement about "controlling high blood pressure" or "controlling high cholesterol" or even "controlling blood sugar" actually means taking pharmaceuticals to control those numbers. So when researchers say that people need to "control their high blood pressure" what they're really saying is that people should take high blood pressure drugs.)
It's a message that might as well have been announced from the Big Pharma Glee Club, or the FDA cheerleading squad. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| There are thousands of natural remedies promoted for all types of illnesses from allergies to high cholesterol to diabetes to cancer. When it comes to illnesses, maladies and conditions, whether subtle or acute, it is critical that you approach them from a position of strength. Do your research. Find a good health food store with knowledgeable staff. Look for a good herbalist and nutritionist. And above all, as recommended in chapter two, find a physician that you trust, who practices integrative medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Eggs cause high cholesterol.
Vioxx is perfectly safe.
Monosodium glutamate is safe for infants.
Everyone should drink fluoride to have healthy teeth.
Thalidomide harms no one.
High fructose corn syrup doesn't cause obesity.
Tens of millions of children need to be on Ritalin.
Food coloring chemicals are safe for children to consume in unlimited quantities.
Pesticides are not harmful to humans.
...And aspartame is safe.
Yeah, sure. And the emperor's clothes are invisible, too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But even if Trudeau got on camera and told the most blatant lies in the world about weight loss, they would pale in comparison to the massive lies being told to the American public today about everything from breast cancer screening (a massive cancer recruiting scam) to high cholesterol (another huge scam designed to sell statin drugs that can kill people). ADHD is a scam to sell drugs to children, antidepressant drugs are extremely dangerous (and cause massive weight gain), and type-2 diabetes is, in fact, readily curable. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Whereas high blood pressure was predictive of a heart attack 25 percent of the time, and high cholesterol 29 percent of the time, low blood levels of vitamin E was predictive almost 70 percent of the time.174
There are, though, negative studies on vitamin E's effect in cardiovascular disease. Although vitamin E was shown in animal studies to be beneficial for hypertension,175- 176 a human trial found that relatively modest doses, 500 IU mixed tocopherols per day for six weeks, led to an increase in blood pressure and heart rate in diabetic patients. |
| Some groups have more women on statins (drugs for high cholesterol) and others have more overweight women, smokers, or previous users of HRT. These are just some of the significant variables involved in comparing one study to the next.
Recommendations for the Use of HRT
The following summarizes the areas of consensus recommendations for the use of HRT,143 along with some additional input for clarification and discussion.
Evaluation Prior to Starting HRT. |
| Use of statins to treat high cholesterol has been associated with muscle pain and decreased exercise tolerance that has been correlated with a reduction in CoQIO.201-204
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50-150 mg per day
Calcium. Calcium is most well known for its effects on bone health, but it can also be used to treat elevated cholesterol and hypertension. Calcium supplementation may produce modest reductions in blood pressure, usually only 1 or 2 points. |
| The American Heart Association dietary recommendations are designed to reduce high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and excess weight. These are the dietary guidelines:
• Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Choose five or more servings per day.
• Eat a variety of grain products, including whole grains. Choose six or more servings per day.
• Include fat-free and low-fat milk products, fish, legumes (beans), skinless poultry, and lean meats.
• Choose fars with 2 grams or less of saturared fat per serving, such as liquid and tub margarines, canola oil, and olive oil. |
| One clinical trial used 1,800 mg of artichoke extract versus placebo for six weeks for the treatment of high cholesterol levels.315 The decrease in total cholesterol values was 18.5 percent in the artichoke group versus 8.6 percent in the placebo group. Also, LDL values fell by 22.9 percent. For patients with gallstones or other bile-duct obstructions, globe artichoke supplementation should be avoided due to the choleretic activity of the extract. This product is currently available as a nutritional supplement in the United States. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 This side effect is, in fact, a side benefit in many cases, for example, in patients suffering from arthritis and high cholesterol levels.
Liver Toxicity
Between 1940 and 1950, when the toxicity of niacin and niacinamide was first studied, the LD,0 for rats was determined - the amount, if given as
138 one dose, that would kill 50% of the test animals. It was very high, about 4.5 g per kg. However, at autopsy, the animals showed elevated fatty acid in the liver.
In 1950, a deficiency of methyl groups was known to cause fatty livers. Niacin and niacinamide are methyl acceptors. |
| Hoffer's research in niacin therapy for high cholesterol levels derived from his earlier work in treating schizophrenia. In 1952, he was the Director of Psychiatric Research in the Department of Public Health for the Province of Saskatchewan. This department was responsible for two large mental hospitals and a school for the mentally challenged, which together housed over 5,000 patients. One half were schizophrenics. At the time, there was no viable treatment for this illness; these patients could expect to spend the rest of their lives in such facilities. |
| Orthomolecular Medicine
Since Hoffer's pioneering work with large doses of niacin for treating high cholesterol and schizophrenia, others have taken up the torch, showing the efficacy of niacin and other vitamins in treating a wide variety of diseases and disorders, none more notably than Dr Linus Pauling in his highly influential books Vitamin C and the Common Cold and Cancer and Vitamin C (co-authored with Dr Ewan Cameron).
Pauling coined the term 'orthomolecular' to describe the use of nutrients in large doses (megadoses) to treat specific conditions, including psychiatric conditions. |
Charles Barber
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 In 2007, however, Lilly added strong warnings to Zyprexa's label, indicating the drug's tendency to cause weight gain, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol.)71 The company has been under federal and state investigation for its marketing practices for Zyprexa.
Lilly is not alone. Almost every major drug company is being investigated criminally or civilly for alleged efforts to promote their drugs beyond their approved uses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As JoAnn Manson, MD, chief of Preventive Medicine at BWH and principal investigator of WACS said (with my translation in brackets), "This research underscores the importance of focusing on proven methods for preventing cardiovascular disease, including physical activity, healthy diet, controlling high blood pressure and high cholesterol [i.e. using pharmaceuticals], maintaining healthy weight, and avoiding tobacco."
In other words, she's saying:
Antioxidants are "unproven."
Cardiovascular disease can only be prevented, in part, by using pharmaceuticals. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 A good, simple, healthy goal is to aim for your waist circumference to be ood news for women: If you're less resistant to insulin and thus lower postmenopausal and have a BMI of your risk for chronic conditions including
30 or above, losing just 5 percent of your body weight can make your cells diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart attacks.4
Your easy first goal is a waist the hips and thighs, which is considmeasure less than your hip mea- ered to be protective. If your waist is i sure. |
Jack Challem
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 Y/N
I've been diagnosed with high cholesterol, triglycerides, or blood pressure. Y/N
I don't have a lot of energy, and I often feel like I have to push myself to get things done. Y/N
I am usually very tired by the time I get to bed. Y/N
I keep waking up and have trouble getting a good night's sleep. Y/N
Explanation: Answering yes to two or more of these questions suggests that your eating habits are not ideal and may be pushing you toward a diabetes-like blood sugar pattern. Elevated blood fats and blood pressure, as well as a lack of energy, are often signs of blood sugar problems. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 And the evidence strongly suggests that high cholesterol is a result of excess inflammation in the body. That excess inflammation seems to be a more likely root cause of dangerous changes in the cardiovascular system.
You don't have to go any further than the medical literature—the dozens of studies published each month in medical journals and presented at medical conferences—to see this. It just hasn't hit the mainstream's radar yet. You now have the inside scoop: when you're concerned about preventing heart disease, think reduce inflammation, not lower cholesterol. |
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