{"id":27633,"date":"2010-08-10T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=27633"},"modified":"2010-08-11T03:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T08:21:43","slug":"about-all-those-cholesterol-drug-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/about-all-those-cholesterol-drug-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"About all those cholesterol drug commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon,<\/p>\n

I’m a fan of a guy named Dr. Mercola — an osteopath with a writing team and a really good website. I have no idea how I even got on his mailing list, but I get his mailings and they are all valuable; some, like the one I am sharing with you today, are absolutely excellent. (For those with pets, he has a colleague on the site who is doing some great stuff on veterinary medicine.)<\/p>\n

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The incredible, evil egg? A variety of them, as sold in Haikou, Hainan, China. Photo: Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The current trend in drug commercials is cholesterol medication. For a while it was prostate, then Viagra comes into vogue, and now every other TV commercial seems to be about lowering your cholesterol to supposedly prevent heart disease and strokes. Well — based on known science, that turns out to be a likely case of bullshit. <\/p>\n

In this recent article, Mercola’s writing team takes apart the issue<\/strong>,<\/a> looking at a number of studies and what they say. One thing he notes is that by drastically lowering cholesterol, we deprive the brain of energy and that is a potential cause of depression. Cholesterol is also a key source of what we need to make sex hormones. So if you want to suppress your sex drive, cutting out cholesterol is a great way to do that.<\/p>\n

Though I don’t do much investigative reporting anymore, I know the real thing when I see it. Mercola’s articles read like a very well-crafted set of research notes that could be developed into an investigative series on the issue they cover. I strongly suggest, by the way, that you look into his coverage of vitamin D. This is the vitamin that isn’t really a vitamin — it’s not found naturally in any food. Those links are easy to find, and there is a cholesterol-vitamin D connection: your body cannot synthesize vitamin D from sunlight unless you have a good level of cholesterol in your blood. Vitamin D, in turn, is the easiest way to stack the deck in your favor on heart disease and cancer.<\/p>\n

With that, a side note about sun screen lotions: they block the production of vitamin D, which happens naturally only in the skin. We fear that sunlight causes cancer, and by adding SPF, that prevents the cancer-blocking property of sunlight. This is an old story: nearly everything the chemical industry creates backfires.<\/p>\n

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Good afternoon, I’m a fan of a guy named Dr. Mercola — an osteopath with a writing team and a really good website. I have no idea how I even got on his mailing list, but I get his mailings and they are all valuable; some, like the one I am sharing with you today, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}