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Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease Without Drugs

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Last week, I explained how preventing heart disease has very little to do with simply lowering cholesterol with statin drugs. Our current thinking about how to treat and prevent heart disease is at best misguided, and at worst harmful. We believe we are treating the causes of heart disease by lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar with medication. But the real question is what causes high cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood sugar in the first place. (i) I

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Tags: Coronary Artery Disease, Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, High Blood Sugar, Disease and Condition, Drug, Supplement

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