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Sean Fane

Sep 20, 2020
3 min

Insulin Resistance & Alzheimers Disease

Various disorders qualify as dementia, and Alzheimers is the most common. Up to 80% of dementia cases are classified as Alzheimers Disease, and this affects 30 million people worldwide. This number is expected to double every 20 years based on the current trends. In 2017 nearly 13% of all deaths in the UK were attributed to Alzheimers and dementia. One in ten people (10%) of people aged 65 and older has Alzheimer's disease. About one-third of people age 85 and older (32%) hav

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Sean Fane

Sep 2, 2020
6 min

What Is A Ketogenic Diet?

Much has been written about ketogenic diets recently. Advocates pitch them as the antidote to many chronic diseases-of-the-day from heart-disease to cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia to obesity. They have also been used to treat epilepsy with much success. Ketogenic diets are also sometimes suggested as a weight-loss alternative to reduced carbohydrate diets (although both diets also seem to support the general principle that one should maintain a calorie deficit to lose weight)

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Increase In LP(a) & Heart-Disease Risk Factors On A Low-Fat High-Carbohydrate Diet

Sean Fane

Aug 19, 2020
3 min

Increase In LP(a) & Heart-Disease Risk Factors On A Low-Fat High-Carbohydrate Diet

If you don’t know your LP(a) statistics…you should do. 1 in 4 people has genetically high LP(a) and if you are one of them, your risk for heart disease has just increased dramatically. This is a subject close to my heart (literally) as I discovered after my heart attack that I have very high genetic LP(a). My LDL was low, triglycerides perfect, not overweight, non-smoker, and fit….but at 50 I had a near fatal heart-attack because my LP(a) is high, and I can’t get away with ev

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Statins Should Not Be Given To Patients With Heart Failure!

Sean Fane

Aug 12, 2020
1 min

Statins Should Not Be Given To Patients With Heart Failure!

Tavazzi L et al. Effect of Rosuvostatin In Patients With Chronic Heart-Failure. (The GISSI-HF Trial) a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Published in the Lancet 2008 Oct 4;372(9645):1231-9 The study (Gruppo Italiano Per Lo Studio Della Sopravvivenza Nell’Infarto Miocardico-Heart Failure: Rosuvastatin GISSI-HF) investigated the effects of rosuvastatin in patients with heart-failure. The study was held at the University of Pavia and was headed-up by Dr Luigi T

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As Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Decrease In The Diet, Rates Of Heart Attack & Death Increase!

Sean Fane

Aug 12, 2020
2 min

As Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Decrease In The Diet, Rates Of Heart Attack & Death Increase!

Frantz ID et al. “Test Of Effect Of Lipid Lowering By Diet On Cardiovascular Risk.” published in The Minnesota Coronary Survey. Arteriosclerosis. 1989 Jan-Feb;9(1):129-35 The Minnesota Coronary Survey lasted for 4.5 years, comparing the effects of two types of diet…the incidence of coronary events, sudden deaths, heart attacks and total deaths. The trial consisted of 9,057 men and women from open enrollment and was a single end-time double-blind, randomised clinical trial tha

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Increased Death Rates, Stroke & Heart Disease Are Associated With Low Cholesterol

Sean Fane

Aug 11, 2020
1 min

Increased Death Rates, Stroke & Heart Disease Are Associated With Low Cholesterol

Tilvis, RS et al. “Prognostic significance of serum cholesterol, lathosterol & sitosterol in old age, a 17-year population study” published in Annals of Medicine. 2011 Jun;43(4):292-301 Professor Reijo Tilvis, at the University of Helsinki, orchestrated this 17-year study investigating the effect of cholesterol on death rates in 623 people aged 75 and over. The results showed that: Total cholesterol declined with old age, and low cholesterol was associated with poor health. C

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Atorvastatin Increases The Risk Of Diabetes

Sean Fane

Aug 10, 2020
2 min

Atorvastatin Increases The Risk Of Diabetes

Atorvastatin Causes Insulin Resistance & Increase Ambient Glycemia in Hypercholesterolemic Patients - Journal of the Amercian College of Cardiology 2010 Mar 23; 55(12):1209-16. Koh KK, et al. Elevated fasting insulin is considered the single greatest marker to assess a persons risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. HbA1c levels are able to depict what a person’s average blood sugar levels have been over the preceding weeks or months. Insulin sensitivity describes how e

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Food Consumption & The Actual Statistics Of Cardiovascular Diseases: An Epidemiological Comparison.

Sean Fane

Aug 6, 2020
2 min

Food Consumption & The Actual Statistics Of Cardiovascular Diseases: An Epidemiological Comparison.

The aim of this ecological study was to identify the main nutritional factors related to the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in Europe, based on a comparison of international statistics. The mean consumption of 62 food items from the FAOSTAT database (1993–2008) was compared with the actual statistics of five CVD indicators in 42 European countries. Several other exogenous factors (health expenditure, smoking, body mass index) and the historical stability of resul

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High Levels of LDL Cholesterol are Associated with Lower Death Rates and Lower Death Rates of CVD!

Sean Fane

Aug 5, 2020
1 min

High Levels of LDL Cholesterol are Associated with Lower Death Rates and Lower Death Rates of CVD!

In “Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol & Mortality in Older People” Journal of American Geriatrics Society 2005 Dec; 53(12):2159-64 Tikhonoff, V et al, noted that: Men who had the highest LDL cholesterol had a 34% decrease in death rates compared to men with the lowest LDL cholesterol. Women who had the highest LDL cholesterol had a 48% decrease in death rates compared to the women with the lowest LDL cholesterol. Men who had the highest LDL cholesterol had a 8% decrease in

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Death Rates In Stroke, Heart Failure & Cancer Are Elevated In People With Low Cholesterol Levels

Sean Fane

Aug 3, 2020
2 min

Death Rates In Stroke, Heart Failure & Cancer Are Elevated In People With Low Cholesterol Levels

In “Low “cholesterol is associated with mortality from stroke, heart disease & cancer: The Jichi Medical School Cohort Study” by Nago, N. et al, it was noted in the Journal of the Epidemiology (2011;21(1):67-74) that “low cholesterol was associated with increased risks of cancer, hemorrhagic stroke and heart failure excluding myocardial infarction”. The senior investigator in this study was Dr Naoki Nago from the Tokyo-kita Social Health Insurance Hospital. Dr Nago studied 12

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Do Heart Attack Survivors Live Longer If They Have High Cholesterol!?

Sean Fane

Aug 1, 2020
1 min

Do Heart Attack Survivors Live Longer If They Have High Cholesterol!?

In "Long-term prognostic importance of total cholesterol in elderly survivors of an acute myocardial infarction" Foody, JM. et al noted in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2003 Jul;51(7):930-6) that heart attack survivors live slightly longer if they have higher cholesterol. After studying the sample group for 6 years, it was found that those with lowest cholesterol levels (less than 140 mg/dL or 4.1 mmol/L) at the end of the first year had 5% more deaths than

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Increasing Cholesterol Reduces Death Rates!

Sean Fane

Jul 30, 2020
2 min

Increasing Cholesterol Reduces Death Rates!

Cholesterol is consistently blamed for causing heart disease, when the data supports the opposite.

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Lowering Cholesterol Levels Increases Death Rates!

Sean Fane

Jul 29, 2020
2 min

Lowering Cholesterol Levels Increases Death Rates!

As counter-intuitive as it seems, with the misguided health information perpetuated by the media today on a regular basis, the lower your cholesterol level is, the greater your risk of dying from cardio-vascular disease! In "Cholesterol and mortality: 30 years of follow-up from the FRAMINGHAM study" Andersen, KM. et al noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association (1987 Apr 24;257(16):2176-80) that there is a direct association between falling cholesterol levels an

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