I’ve written before about the benefit of high HDL. This is your “good” cholesterol and protects you from heart disease. When it comes to predicting heart disease, HDL is more …
Protect Your Heart with Cranberries
Protect Your Heart with Cranberries # 326 This Thanksgiving, you can beat heart disease by enjoying one of the season’s favorite traditions: cranberries. That cranberry sauce your Grandmother used to …
Don't Let "Silent Killer" Sneak Up On You
Most people have heard that high blood pressure is the “Silent Killer”. Yet in my clinic, I often hear “How could I have high blood pressure when I feel fine?” …
If You Need Better Cholesterol…
Health Alert 287 Do you worry about high cholesterol? Patients often come to me after other doctor put them on a dangerous statin drug to lower their cholesterol. When I …
Your Most Important Supplement
Health Alert 294 The next time you hear a doctor say that there is no evidence that you need any supplements, ask him how he figures you’re going to get …
Children Growing Old Before Their Time
Health Alert 300 A new study shows that many children already have the early symptoms of diabetes and heart disease. A lack of good food and exercise is threatening their …
Strengthen Your Heart with an Herb Doctors Ignore
Health Alert 302 "Thanks Dr. Sears, but my doctor doesn’t agree with you. When I asked him about the supplements you recommended, he said," Well… we just don’t have any …
Man Dies after Taking Bad Advice
Health Alert 309 “Dr. Sears, my internal medicine doctor wants me to exercise for an hour a day. Sometimes I get so tired, I feel like I’m going to collapse. …
Is Your Cholesterol Healthy?
Patients continuing to feel pressured by other doctors to take drugs for healthy cholesterols constantly surprise me. Statins are now the most prescribed class of drugs in history. The newest …
Are We Winning the Battle?
Cancer has recently topped heart disease as the nation’s number one killer.(1) This seems to be good news for the fight against heart disease. But when you look a little …
Why Are You Hearing About CRP Now?
Not too long ago, a patient asked me, “Dr. Sears, what do you think about this new risk factor for heart disease called” C – reactive protein’?” “It can be …
Lower Your Blood Pressure with 3 Easy Tips
Health Alert 163 If you have high blood pressure, it is important to lower it to within the normal range. I am not a fan, however, of lowering blood pressure …
What Bill Clinton's Doctors Missed
Health Alert 236 Dear Subscriber: For weeks the media called former President Bill Clinton’s emergency heart surgery a “wake up call for baby boomers.” They did an excellent job of …
Ignore the Hype, Focus on the Cholesterol that Matters
Health Alert 164 Statin drugs to lower cholesterol have become the number one category of drug expense for America’s health insurers. They are also the most profitable drugs in history. …
Will Drug Companies & The FDA Learn from Vioxx? It Doesn't Look Like It…
Health Alert 237 Dear Subscriber: When Merck voluntarily recalled Vioxx on September 30th, 5 years and 105 million prescriptions after its debut, users were stunned. How could a drug billed …
Your Taxes and Drugs
Health Alert 167 Just in case you forgot, today is April 15th, tax day. Speaking of taxes, this year we have, in effect, a new drug tax. As if drug …
The Next FDA Earthquake
Health Alert 238 Dear Subscriber: Looks like the Vioxx disaster was only the first tremor in a major quake rumbling through the FDA. Now five more drugs are under fire …
Cholesterol Drug Found to Be Lethal
Health Alert 175 A new statin drug, Crestor, has hit the market. Clever television campaigns are targeting people who have “high” cholesterol. What the ads don’t say is that a …