by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Cholesterol & Heart Health
The release of the new cholesterol guidelines on Nov. 10, 2018, shows that the American Heart Association and Co. have doubled down on the cholesterol theory of heart disease and the related notion that statins are the solution to everything.
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Cholesterol & Heart Health, Everything Else, Nutrition, Weight-Loss
Not too long ago, I picked up the Tuesday New York Times and went immediately to an article in the Science section on heart health. Seeing that it was written by Jane Brody, I felt the all-too-familiar knot in my stomach whenever I see her by-line (for reasons which...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Cholesterol & Heart Health
As I’ve said many times, lowering cholesterol is easy. Lowering the risk of heart disease, on the other hand, is quite a different matter. Cholesterol just might be the most misunderstood molecule in the whole world. Dr. John Abramson, professor of medicine at Harvard...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog, Cholesterol & Heart Health, Everything Else
Not long ago, a medical reporter friend of mine, Lynn Allison, asked me to comment on a recent article in The Daily Mail, the title of which was: MORE experts claim statins are a waste of time. The article went on to say that studies show that cutting cholesterol...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog, Cholesterol & Heart Health, Everything Else, Nutrition, Recipes
It’s heart health month, the time of year when I typically get apoplectic reading all the bullshit about how important it is for us to check our cholesterol. And with a new class of cholesterol lowering drugs about to hit the market, you can count on aggressive...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Cholesterol & Heart Health, Everything Else, Nutrition
Diabetes, inflammation and Jonny’s fish tank I’ve been making the case for a long time that inflammation is probably the most important contributing factor to degenerative disease. There’s an inflammatory component to cancer, to obesity, to diabetes, to heart disease...