Overweight? Here’s how to avoid heart disease

If you’re overweight, your doctor has probably warned that you’re at a much higher risk of heart disease. In fact, you probably already have the first signs of it — high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It’s true that excess body fat is a major risk factor for heart disease. But two new studies suggest you don’t have to die of a heart attack.

Both studies looked at the impact of a fruit juice cocktail on major heart-disease risk factors. The results are stunning.

How much vitamin D is too much?

Last week, I introduced you to Millie. Millie is a thin woman who is at high risk for osteoporosis. Because of her high risk, I wanted to make sure her vitamin D, calcium, and parathyroid hormone levels were all in the optimal ranges. When I found that her parathyroid hormone was too high, I recommended she take 10,000 IU of vitamin D to lower them. Here’s what happened...

After two months, I measured Millie’s calcium, vitamin D, and parathyroid hormone levels again. 

Inexpensive therapy improves 71% of herniated discs

A friend of mine recently hurt his back. When he went to a chiropractor, the diagnosis was a herniated disk. The chiropractor wanted to put him on a machine that stretches out the back and relieves the herniated disk and the pain. The cost of his spinal decompression was going to run $200 per treatment. And it would take 20-25 treatments.

Fortunately, there’s a treatment that works even better for herniated disks. It works much faster and it costs a fraction of the $4,000-$5,000 this chiropractor hoped to make off his patients.