Last week myself and a number of eminent doctors ( with no financial ties to the drug industry) wrote to our health watchdog NICE copying in the Secretary of State for Health asking them to immediately withdraw approval of new cholesterol lowering injection drug Inclisiran. We cited 6 main concerns which you can read in full below but most importantly the drug has already been demonstrated in the drug industry’s own clinical trials to NOT prevent a single heart attack, stroke or death in short term trials and long term data will not be available until 2026. So why would NICE come out with such a recommendation?
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Cardiologist Tells Piers Morgan Exercise Is Useless For Obesity
On Tuesday I was asked on Good Morning Britain to take part in a discussion on why Britain was suffering an obesity crisis? Read more… Cardiologist Tells Piers Morgan Exercise Is Useless For Obesity
Our Patients Are Guinea Pigs And They Don’t Even Know It
A few weeks ago on the recommendation of the BMJ, I was interviewed on BBC World Service Business Daily giving my view on how commercial corruption of medicine resulting in over prescription of medications to millions across the globe, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths due to side effects was at the root of our healthcare crisis.
Read more… Our Patients Are Guinea Pigs And They Don’t Even Know It
Choose The Pioppi Diet Over Statins To Beat Heart Disease
Headlines earlier this week suggested that if NICE (the health watchdog) 2014 guidelines on the prescription of statins were followed this would mean the overwhelming majority of men over 60 and women over 75 should be prescribed cholesterol lowering statin drugs. What many of the journalists failed or forgot mention was that the General Practitioners Committee and the Royal College of General Practitioners rejected this guidance in 2014 which would have meant that GPs were financially incentivised to prescribed statins to those as low risk of heart disease based upon poor evidence of benefit.
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Reversing heart diseases starts by stopping fear of cholesterol
Want to know why an exaggerated fear of cholesterol has made millions across the globe fatter and sicker and what you can do about it today?
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Big Food And Bad Pharma Greed Has Brought Healthcare To Its Knees
Corporate greed of the food and pharmaceutical industries are the two most important root causes of our current healthcare crisis. Until the medical establishment and politicians are bold enough to address their excesses and manipulations head on we will continue to have a sicker, unhappier and less economically productive society.
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Fat but fit myth busted
Today’s BBC News headlines confirmed what many of us already knew to be true, that it’s not possible to be fat and fit. Essentially if you’re obese but still have no risk factors for heart disease, just being significantly overweight in itself is harmful to health in the long term.
Treat Sugar Like Tobacco To Save Lives And Rapidly Improve Population Health
I’m delighted to share that and editorial I wrote for Medscape making the case that we now have sufficient scientific evidence to regulate sugar like tobacco made the news.
Read more… Treat Sugar Like Tobacco To Save Lives And Rapidly Improve Population Health
Lifestyle medicine to save the NHS billions and halt healthcare crisis
Yesterday myself and a number of prominent doctors, nutritionists, sports scientists and health campaigners wrote a letter to the medical schools council, the general medical council and the secretary of state for health calling for mandatory training for medical students and practicing doctors in evidence based lifestyle interventions to prevent and treat chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Read more… Lifestyle medicine to save the NHS billions and halt healthcare crisis
Good Health Doesn’t Come Out of a Medicine Bottle
I recently saw a lady in her early 60’s who was terrified because her GP had told her that her cholesterol was high. “congratulations” I said, “that will probably help you live longer.” By the end of the consultation she left the room smiling.
A few weeks ago with a number of international researchers I co-authored a paper published in BMJ Open that concluded that not only was there no association with so called bad cholesterol and cardiovascular disease in the over 60’s but a trend to reduced reduction in deaths from all causes the higher the cholesterol. One explanation of our findings is that LDL cholesterol is involved in immune system protection against potentially fatal gastrointestinal and respiratory infections and possibly even cancer.
Read more… Good Health Doesn’t Come Out of a Medicine Bottle