It was all over the news last week: a study links statins to increased diabetes incidence in women. The study appears in the Archives of Internal Medicine, using data from the Women’s Health Initiative, and you can read about it in USA Today.

Doctors go on to say that statins are the best drugs we’ve got to reduce the risk of heart attacks and heart disease deaths, and that the benefit from statins far outweighs the risks. As far as drugs go, that may be true. But there can be other side effects as well: muscle pain, liver damage, nausea, gas, diarrhea, constipation, rashes, memory loss, and more.

Who wants that?!? What if there was a way to reverse heart disease without drugs? Prevent it from ever occurring in the first place? While there is already some evidence that this can be done, at the NRP we are awaiting funding to study the impact of a high nutrient dense diet on the degree of regression of atherosclerosis and heart disease. Watch a short video from Dr. Greger, one of our researchers, on the link between heart attacks, cholesterol and diet. 

If you would like to learn more about how to protect yourself and your loved ones from our nation’s number one killer, you may download for free Dr. Fuhrman’s (our research director’s) excellent book on the subject, Cholesterol Protection for Life. Please share this link with your friends and family so they may read this important book, too.