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🚨 If you are a woman scared of statins, stop and read this first. Muscle pain is not proof the drug is failing you. And "statins do not work as well for women" is not true either. But the data says otherwise. 🩺 I am a cardiologist. In my own practice, about 1 in 10 women on a statin report muscle

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How can vegans and plant based eaters have high cholesterol_ #cholesterol #vegan #vegetarian

🚨 Crash dieting before your wedding will not get you down the aisle lean. It will get you exhausted and rebounding. Thirty percent of people who crash diet regain all their weight within one year. That is not a personal failure. That is what happens when you starve your body instead of working

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Women, menopause, hormone replacement, cholesterol, lipids, and heart disease. #menopause #wome

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🚨 Women get statins 40% less often than men with the exact same cardiovascular risk. Not because the drug works less. It works just as well. But the data says otherwise on almost every excuse I hear in clinic. I am a cardiologist. I have hundreds of patients on statins, and I track outcomes by sex

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Big pharma making money? Is it allowed? #capitalism #bigpharma #economy

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Proactive 30 year old trying to never need a cardiologist! #education #teaching #cardiology

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High fat carnivore diet causes weight loss and clear skin_ #carnivore #diet #fat

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Why I'm trying to prevent heart disease on here! #heartdisease #cardiology #preventative

🚨 Your hormone labs are normal. That does not mean you are not in perimenopause. I am a cardiologist. Patients tell me this every week. Here is what the data actually says. Perimenopause can start in your mid-30s. Years before your period even changes. 🩺 Zero. That is how many blood tests are

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Whooooaaaa? Tag someone who is accurate and helpful and evidence based! #evidence #accurate #he

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High LDL cholesterol tied for first as the most important risk factor for dementia! #dementia #

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🚨 Keto can shrink your waistline. It has never been proven to shrink your risk of a heart attack. Here is what the science actually says. I am a cardiologist. I have run this comparison for patients chasing the keto trend. 🔬 What keto actually does: Keto drops triglycerides fast. The weight comes

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🚨 Your cholesterol is not fixed. It can move in one season, not one year. Rabbits do not eat a Western diet. Neither did humans until recently. That is why even rabbits develop atherosclerosis when researchers feed them the wrong fats. Heart disease is not random. It is diet driven, and diet is

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Hidden gems in your lipid panel! Too many online influencers are trying to convince you that th

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Do you ever worry about being wrong? Are doctors ever wrong? #wrong #humility #medicine

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🚨 Heart disease does not start at fifty. It starts at eighteen. I am a cardiologist, and the CARDIA Trial changed how I treat every patient under forty. Here is what the data actually says. 🫀 CARDIA followed over five thousand young adults for more than thirty five years, starting at age eighteen

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Here is why the heart disease risk Calculators Suck! Get your cholesterol down! Both calculator

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🚨 Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol are outdated labels. Your HDL number is not protecting you. But the data says otherwise. And no, HDL is not just the "healthy" number your doctor circles in green. In 1913, a scientist named Anitschkow fed rabbits pure cholesterol. Their arteries filled with

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🚨 Red meat is not the enemy your feed thinks it is. But it is not innocent either. Here is the number I give every patient who loves a good steak. It is not zero. I am a cardiologist. I have patients who eat red meat every week and still hit every marker I want to see. 🩺 Here is what the data

Heart rhythm problems and arrhythmias. How to identify heart rhythm problems. #rhythm #heart #c

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🚨 Red wine will not save your heart. That belief comes from a myth science already killed. 🩺 I am a cardiologist. I tell my patients the same thing every time. Less alcohol is better. None is safest. 💓 In 2018, The Lancet followed almost 600,000 drinkers for over 5.4 million

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Agree with Shawn Baker's recommendations for Carnivores in 2024. #carnivore #keto #greenscreen

🚨 One shot to end heart disease? Not yet. But watch closely. Patients ask me every week if there is a shot that cures high cholesterol for good. Here is what the science actually says. A new gene editing therapy called VERVE-102 just published Phase 1 data. One infusion permanently shut off the

Heart Disease Risk factors_ How to improve your heart health_ How to live longer_ #heartdisease (1)

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🚨 One hot dog a day can raise your diabetes risk by 51%. Not a lifetime of it. One daily serving. Here is what the data actually shows about red meat, and why the answer is not as simple as good or bad. Processed red meat drives chronic inflammation that damages how your body handles insulin. That

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Do office oxidized lipids matter? What about oxidized LDL? #oxidation #lipids #cholesterol

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🚨 130/80 does not mean you need a pill today. Most of my patients panic when they see that number. They should not. "But the data says otherwise." I am a cardiologist. I have thousands of patients who improved stage 1 hypertension with lifestyle changes alone before we ever discussed medication.

Heart Disease Risk factors_ How to improve your heart health_ How to live longer_ #heartdisease

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Cardiologist: Inflammation does not cause heart disease. We have even more data now. Every medication we have ever used to lower inflammation has had either no benefit or caused harm. NSAIDS, steroids, colchicine, canilukimab, zetivilukimab, and many others. Unless, you also reduce LDL cholesterol

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🚨 Your LDL can look perfect on paper and still be lying to you. There is a second cholesterol particle almost no one checks. It is called Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), and it is nearly 6.6 times more atherogenic than LDL, particle for particle. I am a cardiologist. I test for Lp(a)

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Anti pharmaceutical bias and conspiracy theories? #freemarketcapitalism #capitalism #pharmaceut

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LDL IS UNDEFEATED! No matter how we have lower cholesterol and whether it's through diet interventions, you were just born with lower cholesterol, or you took a medication to lower it, or even an exercise intervention, everything improves when you lower cholesterol. You have less strokes less heart

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Why don't you prescribe PCSK9s since they are superior to statins? #pcsk9 #statin #medication #

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