Statin Side Effects: What the Science Really Shows (And Why Most Are Rare or Not Caused by Statins)

Statins are among the most widely prescribed medications in the world, and also among the most misunderstood. The internet is full of people trying to scare you away from statins, only to turn around...

Swedish Centenarian Study: Highest Cholesterol Lived to Over 100

In 2023, the internet world of Medfluencers got very excited over a study that was published supposedly demonstrating that centenarians had higher cholesterol than non-centenarians. The internet went crazy!

All the keto and carnivore...

Women and Heart Disease: The Complete Prevention Guide (Symptoms, Risks, Tests, and a Step-by-Step Plan)

By Dr. Abeer Berry DO, FACC Preventative Cardiologist Michigan

Women are the majority of patients. They are not a "specialty population". Unfortunately, for too long, we have treated women like...

Alcohol and Heart Disease: What the Science Really Says About Drinking and Your Heart

For decades, we were told that alcohol, particularly red wine, was “good for the heart.” This belief became deeply ingrained in both popular culture and even medical conversations starting in the 1990s. Multiple t...

Actual Longevity: How I Think About Living Longer by Avoiding the Diseases That Kill Us

I’ve been obsessed with longevity for the better part of two decades. Every day in my cardiology practice, I see people suffering—and dying—from diseases that could have been delayed, mitigated, or in many cases...

The Discovery Of Heart Disease In Rabbits Changed Everything We Know

The Mummies taught us a lot about heart disease, but the story didn't end there.

Fast forward a few million years.

Cholesterol was first discovered in 1769 by a French physician-chemist named François Poulletier de la Salle. He ...

Atherosclerosis Is Older Than Modern Society: What Ancient Mummies Teach Us About Heart Disease

Atherosclerosis has been around for millions of years. Researchers found evidence of atherosclerotic heart disease in mummies that lived over 4000 years ago. They used very hi-tech imaging methods to vis...

LDL Cholesterol and Heart Disease: Definitive Proof That LDL Causes Atherosclerosis

How do we know that LDL cholesterol causes heart disease? What's the proof? Has LDL met the criteria for causation in the scientific method?

For decades, both physicians and the public have debated the role of L...

Is Extremely Low LDL Cholesterol Dangerous?

Is extremely low LDL cholesterol good for you or dangerous? Luckily we have studies to answer this very question!

Many online influencers want to scare you into thinking that very low levels of LDL cholesterol are dangerous and that you will have a ton o...

Benefits To Treating Cholesterol In The Old And Very Old

You will see a lot of misinformation published by medfluencers truing to convince you that there is no benefit to taking statins if you are above a certain age. They tried so hard to find a study that didn't show benefit, and they couldn't fi...