Published May 25, 2015

The supplement combination that can increase your risk of kidney stones by 17%

There is no doubt that taking a vitamin D3 supplement will prevent and even correct osteoporosis. That's been proven. However, this is not true for calcium. Taking a calcium supplement is useless in this regard. But despite the overwhelming evidence that calcium supplements do not help make your bones stronger, many doctors continue to recommend that their patients take a combination of calcium and vitamin D3. Now a new study is showing yet another reason why adding that calcium in is not a good idea.

 

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Published May 22, 2015

Using these conventional heart treatments could cause a heart attack

Wow! A blockbuster review article just came out last month about one of my least favorite — and Big Pharma's most loved drugs. I'm talking about statin drugs. These drugs came out about 20 years ago and I don't even want to guess how much money the drug companies have made. I'm thinking it comes real close to our national debt! The drug companies initially pushed statins as a preventive for atherosclerosis and heart disease. And now, they push them as the best thing ever for just about anything that ails you. But the authors of a new paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal are possibly blowing the lid off these dangerous drugs. According to their report, the indiscriminate use of these drugs might actually be responsible for more cardiovascular deaths than they supposedly prevent.

 

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Published May 20, 2015

Why you should take testosterone before you get Alzheimer's

I love giving men testosterone therapy when they need it. It can turn back the clock and take them from a lazy, out of shape, moody, mentally slow guy to a happy, energetic, mentally quick lean-and-mean machine. But a surprising study came out just this past week that indicates that there is one case where it might be better to let a man stay in his low testosterone state.

 

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