5 Exercises That Lower Blood Sugar By 58% 

Blood sugar control is not complicated. It is not about finding one perfect workout or one magic supplement. It is about moving your body consistently, and the science behind it is remarkably strong. I am going to show you five specific exercises backed by...

Rosuvastatin vs Atorvastatin (Crestor vs Lipitor): Which Is Better?

Rosuvastatin (Crestor) and atorvastatin (Lipitor) are the two statins I use more than any others. They are both excellent. But they are not identical, and people ask me all the time which one is better. So let me walk you through t...

Which Statin Should You Start?

"Which statin should I take?" might be the question I hear most often in clinic. People have heard of Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor, and a half dozen others, and they want to know whether it matters. It does. So let me tell you exactly how I do it, in plain English, and wha...

The First Year After A Heart Stent Playbook

If you or someone you love just had a stent placed, the first year matters more than almost any other stretch of your heart health. I see people walk out of the hospital relieved, and they should be. The blocked artery was opened. But a stent is not the e...

Why Are Women Under Treated In Heart Disease?

Women have been undertreated for heart disease, and not in some vague, hand-wavy way. There is real research behind it, with real numbers, and I think every woman deserves to see that research laid out plainly instead of hearing it as a slogan. So this ...

Statins and Dementia in Type 2 Diabetes: Starting Early Was Associated With 15% Lower Risk

If you have spent any time on the wellness side of the internet, you have been told that statins rot your brain. That they cause dementia. That the cholesterol in your neurons is being stripped away by a drug...

You're home alone. Maybe it's the middle of the afternoon, maybe it's 3 in the morning. There's a pressure in your chest, or a strange ache in your jaw, or you're suddenly short of breath and sweating for no reason you can name. Nobody is in the next room. Your first thought is probably, "Let me wai...

Silent Atherosclerosis: 57% of Healthy Adults Already Have Plaque

A new study just imaged the arteries of 16,808 adults who had no known heart disease. No prior heart attack. No stroke. No stents. No bypass. Just ordinary people between 18 and 70 years old who would tell you, if you asked, that the...

Repatha Cut All-Cause Death by 20% in People Who Never Had a Heart Attack

Most large cholesterol trials are built to show fewer heart attacks and strokes. Very few of them are built to show fewer deaths (all-cause mortality). Studies aren't generally powered for all-cause mortality. This is an impo...

Colchicine and Heart Disease: Reading the Negative Trials Honestly

I want to walk you through one of the more interesting stories in cardiology right now, because it is not a story about a drug that failed. It is a story about what happens when a genuinely good hypothesis meets a genuinely large tr...