Podcast 31
April 3, 2010 by admin
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WELCOME TO THE 31st EDITION OF THE HEALTH AND HAPPINESS PODCAST
To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Norbert Wiener
Covering: AMD protection: Coffee: The JUPITER study:
A new meta-analysis of nine previous studies totaling 88,974 participants reports that consuming fish and omega-3 fish oils seems to reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration.
In a study of more than 125,000 Americans spanning 18 to 24 years finds no link between coffee consumption and increased risk of death. Even for those drinking six or more cups a day. In fact, heavy coffee drinking seemed to be associated with a decreased risk of death, especially from cardiovascular causes among women.
Both regular and decaffeinated coffee, were associated with a small decrease in risk of all-cause mortality.
Both men and women showed a trend toward decreasing risk of death as coffee consumption rose. The trend was statistically significant, though only among women, peaking at 26% reduced risk for those drinking four to five cups a day.
The JUPITER study is another example of a study that is a bad study but for different reasons. Crestor is a high potency statin. So it has all the bad side effects of statin drugs. It depletes the body of coenzyme Q10 causing muscle pain and weakness (14% of patents) also memory problems, liver toxicity and kidney problems. Those taking Crestor also had a significantly greater incidence of diabetes. The study was done in healthy people with normal LDL cholesterol levels.
If you read the print at the end of the study 11 of the 14
authors receive grants, consulting and lecture fees from a large number of pharmaceutical companies.
Reductions of 50% and 20% in relative risk for cardiac events and deaths seem impressive. Of the 8,901 men and women in the study who took Crestor: 83 or (0.9%) of them had a stroke, heart attack or cardiovascular death, compared with 157 or (1.8%) in a similarly sized group who took a placebo. This is not very impressive; it means that less than one in a hundred people received a benefit and most if not all received side effects.
In the Jupiter study all the participants were healthy with normal cholesterol. The study was to run 4 to 5 years but was terminated after just 1.9 years. If you want normal healthy people to take a drug with side effects, for the rest of their lives why terminate the study after 1.9 years unless something is starting to show that the drug is more harmful than the early results showed.
Half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people with normal LDL cholesterol. So the researchers targeted another biomarker linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease: high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP).
Researchers from the University of California Berkeley published a clinical trial just a month before the Jupiter study showing that compared to a placebo, Vitamin C decreased CRP by 34% in people with levels higher than 2—the same results as Crestor. Vitamin D also reduces CRP. So instead of taking Crestor and making the drug companies rich take Vitamin C with each meal and vitamin D 2000 IU and stay healthy
That’s all for PODCAST #31. I hope you found it interesting and informative. The next PODCAST will be the week of Feb. 1
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