Cholesterol – More Confusion
In 2007, the multibillion dollar cholesterol lowering statin drugs were being taken by about 60 million Americans. Drug companies aggressively market these block buster drugs to allegedly save you from hardening of the arteries by raising so-called “good cholesterol (HDL)” and lowering supposedly “bad cholesterol (LDL).” Two of these drugs, Zetia and Vytorin (which combines Zetia and Zocor) were found to be likely worse than Zocor alone. Researchers surprisingly found that…