This information came in very handy when I was researching the negative impact that statins have on glial progenitor cells in the brain.

Doctors like you are truly a blessing by providing straight forward and unbiased information to the public.

Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

- Julie

Glad you enjoyed the post.

“Vitamin E (as mixed tocopherols) 20 International Unit 67%
Fish Oil Concentrate (from anchovy, mackerel, sardine) 800 Milligrams *
Borage Seed Oil 800 Milligrams *
Flax Oil (seed) 800 Milligrams *
alpha -Linolenic Acid (from flax seed oil) 424 Milligrams *
Linoleic Acid (from borage & flax seed oil) 416 Milligrams *
Oleic Acid (from borage & flax seed oil) 362 Milligrams *
Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA)(from fish oil concentrate – anchovy, mackerel, sardine) 240 Milligrams *
Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA)(from fish oil concentrate – anchovy, mackerel, sardine) 160 Milligrams *
Gamma -Linoleic Acid (GLA)(from borage seed oil) 152 Milligrams”

Having read your opinion about GLA, do you think I should avoid this formula all togother and stick to just omega 3 EFA and DHA? I’ll also purchase NKO and curcumin as you suggested because I believe it will help me. I’m sticking to a low carb lifestyle, avoiding cow dairy but I’m occasionally eating goat cheese. I need your input!!!
Thank you so very much for doing so much good to all of us with such great research, info.
and knowledge.
1st timer

If you are truly following a low-carb lifestyle, I would avoid borage oil and other oils with a high content of GLA. Lower insulin levels seems to allow these to convert to arachidonic acid more easily. I have had many patients who were taking GLA (from whatever source) for back and/or joint pain. When they switched to a low-carb diet, their pain got a little worse. When I had them stop the GLA, the pain went away. So, I always have people on low-carb diets avoid GLA.

Why exactly were these specific patients excluded from the study?

I don’t know the precise reasons these criteria were excluded, but most studies have exclusion criteria to make both arms of the study as equal as possible while limiting confounding variables.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/health/research/30heart.html?hp

As long as there are big, big bucks in statins, the data will continue to be tortured. I haven’t read the paper on statins and clotting yet, but when I do, I’ll let everyone know my opinion. It may be that the drugs work for clot prevention, but at what expense? And do they work better than the old tried and true methods? Who knows?

Have you checked out Stephan’s post on his blog “whole health source?”
It’s a very interesting review of a recent Dutch study on the effects of Vitamin K2 on heart disease. Here’s the link:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

I’m subscribed to both posts and comments with Bloglines. Most blogs don’t have a way to subscribe to comments without subscribing to each post’s comments individually. I sure hope you keep it.

I’ll keep it. I don’t have a clue as to how to get rid of it even if I wanted to.

Possibly he is calling this a newsletter, it seems to be the blog posts delivered by email instead of a blog reader:

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Ah, maybe so. I don’t even know how that got set up. Maybe one of my former tech gurus set it up, because I certainly didn’t. Not that there is a problem with it, I just don’t even know how it works. Do you get it that way? If so, were the apostrophes screwed up? Maybe I had better subscribe myself so I can see what comes.

I recently subscribed to your weekly newsletter and am still exploring the wealth of information on your various sites.

However, there are two very annoying aspects to the weekly publication. First, I get a script error message every time I attempt to access your emailing. Every time I return, the message also returns, and must be disposed of. Please try to have this fixed.

Secondly, today’s communique about Fat Head had the very irritating defect of having a double-space in the place of every apostrophe. This interrupts the reading flow, and makes it very difficult to appreciate the content. Surely this can be fixed easily.

Aside from those two problems, I’m loving it. I bought “The Slow Burn…” a couple of years ago, and it’s fantastic. Now I’m also a low-carb eater, and a disciple of Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s opinions regarding cholesterol and heart disease. What a bill of goods the public has been sold by the Judas-like physicians and others who make up the NIH, the NCEP board and the FDA. As far as I’m concerned the facts are irrefutable: Cholesterol does not cause heart disease, and low cholesterol can be dangerous or fatal. But Big Pharma has so enslaved the medical establishment that it will be a long, long time before your personal physician is likely to accept this truth.

I am clueless as to what’s going on here. I don’t have a weekly newsletter, so I don’t know what you’re actually getting. Second, I’ve looked at the Fat Head post on a couple of other computers, and it looked fine on all. Maybe some other readers can chime in on this one because I don’t know what to tell you.

I agree 100 percent. But there is no patent protection for individual nutraceuticals, so there simply isn’t the money to test them extensively. And as far as snake oil goes, if I’m going to take snake oil, I would rather take snake oil that costs me $15 per month than snake oil that costs me $150 per month and carries with it a host of side effects, some of which can be fatal. As far as I know, no one has ever died from bilberry or saw palmetto.

Daniel

I wouldn’t say the benefit was overwhelming enough to justify stopping the study. I suspect a little confirmation bias was in play.

I’m not trying to mislead people, but to present these studies as I see them. And I don’t think I indulged in academic dishonesty.