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The Truth About Statins
- Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Alternative & Complementary Medicine
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Could statin drugs actually harm you?
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- mary castle
- 01-17-18
Semi correct
So it’s true that a high fat diet lowers your risk for heart attack. I don’t believe she’s done enough research because statements like dr. Atkins died from a heart attack heart totally untrue he died from a head injury from falling on ice. I believe Atkins was on to something but he had the protein to high. “The art and science of Low-Carb living” is a much better book on how to reverse inflammation and heart disease
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- Wong Chi Chung
- 12-10-20
Informative and Adequately in-depth
I enjoyed this book a lot for the amount of information provided. It is a good read even for layperson like myself.
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- Ken Miner
- 09-02-20
Great Information
She throws a lot of numbers around which is good, just a little difficult when only listening. Has good examples/illustrations. Sites a lot of studies by name. Great book for helping make the statin decision.
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- Adamy
- 05-30-20
Difficult to follow
Important to know what it is or was said about stations and all of those tests
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- Derek Dean
- 10-24-19
Truly the Truth About Statins
Great overview of what has led up to current treatment therapies with stations. She addresses the problems & benefits, where benefits are misleading, and organizational problems such as related Associations, Drug Companies, and exaggerated evidence findings in controlled trials. Her take on this subject comes from experience as a doctor and as a study coordinator. This is a good resource for patients & providers alike. The amount of study info can be overwhelming without the book & solely listening to audio.
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- Wendy
- 08-16-18
Informative but dry scientific technical style
Very good information, but highly technical and dry for common reader. Fortunatly I am a scientist so no problem, but most readers would be bored to tears and quit.
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- RealWoman8
- 11-21-17
A look behind the research
Before you submit to a statin prescription, listen to this book (or any of the many others like it). It isn't an alarmist, tin-foil hat book, but one that presents the research, including the results that the drug companies may have played down or omitted in their desire to push their pills into the multi-billion-dollar market. The information presented here is especially relevant to women, since we women react differently to statins than men do and also have different CVD risks. I thought the author was very fair in presenting the facts. There are some situations in which statins are appropriate; however, to hand them out like candy to a wide variety of patients is dangerous, and the author clearly explains why this is so and how serious the side effects can be. She also explains how the baselines for cholesterol levels were established and what factors need to be considered in your decision to go on statins or not. Excellent book that everyone should read in this day and age of pill pushing.
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- Bryan D
- 12-14-15
WOW! Listen to what Dr. Roberts has to say!
This book needs to be read and or heard by all! My Dr wants to put me on a statin. I don't usually arbitrarily do what my Dr tells me with out researching side effects etc. It would for me being a lay type person hard to follow with reading and interpreting much of the numbers, staitics and medical jargon in this book, but did get alot out of the Audio version. Dr Roberts expains the many adversed side affects vs the relative small percentage of helping a patient She also mentions how the big drug companies are pushing their products and what that culture has seem to become with medical insittuions etc BOTTOM LINE! Do what ever you can not to get on Statins!