What's the bottom line on being fat? Can we be healthy and fat? We need fat for brain function, to manufacture our sex hormones and to lose weight. I used to think that some of my overweight patients were healthy. They had great energy and showed no metabolic syndrome disease. We would joke that they were keeping some of their energy in reserves. Now that "fat and healthy" thinking is coming into question.

A coronary artery calcium score study revealed that metabolically healthy obese people have a higher prevalence of coronary calcification compared to metabolically healthy people with normal weight. A large meta-analysis showed an increased risk for death and cardiovascular events in metabolically healthy obese adults compared to normal-weight counterparts.  Is healthy fat a myth?  

Big Pharma has been aggressively pushing statins for the past 15 years.  They have been able to dodge bullets from causing elevated liver enzymes, creating mitochondrial dysfunction with a rash of muscle aches and body pains, increasing the risk of diabetes to making users feel generally unwell in less than six weeks. 

Researchers looked at data about individuals who were prescribed statin therapy for high cholesterol because once you take a pill the cholesterol will go down and you're good, right?  

Celiac disease affects one in 133 Americans.

It is four times more common today and 80% of individuals with celiac go undiagnosed or wrongly diagnosed for years. Celiac and other autoimmune diseases; lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease are all linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Do you have celiac disease and don't know it?

There is nothing fishy about a recent Finnish study that showed a diet rich in fatty fish changed the HDL's or good cholesterol even in men and women who had elevated blood sugar levels.

LDL and HDL levels did not change, but the polyunsaturated fatty acids in the fish increased the size and number of HDL particles. Why should you care?

If you've seen our website or other blogs you have probably seen that we offer ozone chelation therapy for a variety of conditions, but what exactly is ozone chelation? 

Strophanthus "The Insulin of the Heart"

Cardiovascular disease is no joke. Is your doctor ordering accurate and predictive tests for your heart health?

I have treated firefighters for the past 15 years, blogged about their increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease and now about their obesity associated mortality.

Is there a connection with anxiety and heart disease?