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  1. haidut

    The fraud unravels - statins cause, not prevent heart disease (CVD)

    While the news that the statin fraud is finally being exposed is certainly good, it is sad that it took so many decades to admit to something so biochemically obvious. Namely, since statins interfere with the synthesis of mevalonic acid, as a consequence they also inhibit the synthesis of the...
  2. haidut

    LipOdd - Liquid Product With Odd-Chain Saturated Fats (SFA)

    More than a decade ago, when I was just beginning my exploration of bioenergetics, one of the first indications that Ray's writings were onto something when it came to SFA vs. PUFA was the fact that while mainstream medicine ruthlessly bashed SFA in general and promoted PUFA, virtually very...
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    Heart Disease "Found In 100% Of Kids By Age 10." We All Have Heart Disease? (Video)

    Youtuber Dr. Gregor is a vegan activist and targets high cholesterol as the major factor in vascular disease. His 10 year old video has no breaking news but includes studies worth being aware of imo. Heart Disease Starts In Childhood View: https://youtu.be/AkWd0R05ZEs?t=5...
  4. haidut

    Cortisol stimulates its own synthesis (peripherally), drives obesity/diabetes/CVD

    Synthetic/bioidentical glucocorticoids (GC) are perhaps the most widely used steroids clinically. In addition, the HPA axis, culminating in cortisol production, is one of the most widely studied mechanisms in regards to many chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, CVD, mental conditions...
  5. haidut

    Raising DHT levels even only in the brain reverses systemic atherosclerosis

    As my readers know, I have been a fan of the strong, non-aromatizable androgen DHT for a long time. One of the first signs for me that DHT is beneficial was the uniform and relentless propaganda against that steroid by mainstream medical publications, despite the obvious (and increasing)...
  6. haidut

    Niacinamide may lower blood pressure in humans by raising NAD+

    The study actually used the now-banned NAD+ precursor known as nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), but, as I keep reminding people, multiple studies have demonstrated statistically equivalent rise in NAD+ levels from equal doses of any of the known NAD+ precursors such as niacin, niacinamide...
  7. haidut

    Vitamin K reduces vascular stiffness, blood pressure in humans

    The topic of vitamin K and blood pressure has been coming up for years among followers of Peat. He mentioned several cases, of which he had first-hand knowledge, where people managed to significantly and rapidly reduce their blood pressure by taking large doses of vitamin K. A number of...
  8. haidut

    Vitamin D may prevent atrial fibrillation (afib)

    Some good news to all the people with this condition. Their numbers are, unfortunately, steadily rising and Big Pharma has produced "wonderful" (and actually, fraudulent) new drugs such as Xarelto to "help" them, with the end results of afib rates still rising and Xarelto becoming one of the...
  9. haidut

    Low androgens, not low estrogens, linked to heart disease in aging women

    One of the most pernicious myths medicine created (and has been promoting for the last century) is that menopause is a condition of estrogen "deficiency". Other, similarly pernicious myths are that estradiol is a "female" hormones while testosterone is a "male" hormone. These myths have...
  10. haidut

    Hair glucocorticoid levels predict future cardiovascular disease (CVD)

    Ever since we launched our hair/nail steroid analysis service couple of years ago, I have been seeing a steadily increasing number of studies on using hair/nail steroid analysis to predict future risk and also assess severity of (already existing) many chronic conditions. While most of the...
  11. haidut

    Keto diet linked to higher risk of heart disease (CVD) and stroke

    The controversy over low-carb diets is steadily increasing. While such diets are still all the rage on popular podcasts and blogs, many academic researchers and practicing clinicians have started to distance themselves from the diet and no longer recommend it to their patients due to the...
  12. haidut

    Zero-calorie sweetener (erythritol) linked to clotting, heart attacks and strokes

    A striking finding but this new study below, and it is even more striking due to the fact that it involves erythritol - one of the non-caloric sweeteners thought to be the most harmless. You see, many studies have already demonstrated negative health effects from artificial zero-calorie...
  13. haidut

    Declining DHT in aging linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD)

    Yet another study demonstrating that the "villain of all males around the world" - the dastardly androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT) - actually is, in all likelihood, beneficial for males, at least when it comes to their cardiovascular health. However, since CVD is one of the risk factors for...
  14. haidut

    Atherosclerosis linked to high estrogen/cortisol/serotonin, low androgens

    The findings of the study are not surprising, but I wanted to post it on the blog since it is one of the few studies I have seen that examined more than one of the "sickness" mediator levels in a major chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), and found all of them to be elevated...
  15. haidut

    Mitochondrial dysfunction is a major cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD)

    At a first glance, mitochondrial dysfunction (a "functional" problem) has little in common with the build-up of plaque on arterial walls (a "structural" problem). However, as my readers know quite well, structure and function cannot be separated and a functional pathology is perfectly capable...
  16. haidut

    Blocking serotonin, promoting dopamine may reverse cardiovascular disease (CVD)

    The claim in the title stems from the fact that bromocriptine - the drug used in the study below - is an approximate 5-HT antagonist while also being full agonist on several dopamine receptors. IMO, the study is a monumental success since CVD is largely considered a progressive condition, for...
  17. haidut

    Pregnenolone (P5) blocks stress-induced anxiety, hypertension and cocaine cravings

    A great new study, and with humans too! As the study aptly demonstrates, the primary driver of cocaine cravings is likely stress and the anxiety it causes. This finding is another corroboration of the findings of the great Rat Park experiment/study on "addiction". In the study below, the...
  18. haidut

    Low vitamin D levels linked to premature death

    Another way to phrase the findings of the study is that vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of death from any cause. Another important finding of the study is that it was the levels of 25-OH-D (calcifediol, a biomarker of of cholcalciferol (vit. D3) supplementation) and not 1,25-OH-D...
  19. haidut

    Iron drives heart failure by fattening the heart; iron chelators may prevent/cure

    Recommending high intake of iron is one of the most common dietary recommendations of registered dieticians, as well as many doctors. The fact that lipofuscin - a highly insoluble complex of iron and PUFA peroxides - increases with age is conveniently ignored in those recommendations. The...
  20. haidut

    NSAID drugs, except aspirin, linked to heart failure

    The link between NSAID usage (except aspirin) and heart attacks is not new, but I decided to still post this study due to the fact that it is the first to suggest those non-aspirin NSAID may actually damage the heart themselves rather than cause CVD events indirectly. Notably, once again...
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