THE CHOLESTEROL CONSPIRACY
Revised Second Edition, 2007
Ladd R. McNamara, M.D.
© Health and Freedom, Inc., 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- What is Atherosclerosis?
- Incidence of Atherosclerosis
- Causes and/or Risk Factors For Atherosclerosis
- How the Pharmaceutical Industry Influences Medical Education
- The Myth that High Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease
- The Number One Cause of Death in the United States
- The True Cause of Heart Disease and Stroke
- Homocysteine Oxidizes Both LDL Cholesterol and the Arterial Walls
- Pharmaceutical Companies Conspire to Hide the Truth
- The Discovery of the Association Between Homocysteine and Heart Disease
- Conflicting Studies?
- The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Money Influences the Treatment of Disease
- “Doctors Would Not Recommend Cholesterol-lowering Drugs if they Were Not Good for Us, Right?”
- Medical Ethics and Conflict of Interest in Scientific Medicine
- Conspiracy to Have Everyone Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
- The Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs and the New Recommendations
- How Beneficial are Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs?
- Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs Deplete Co-Enzyme Q10
- The Effects of Lowering Co-Enzyme Q10 with Statin Drugs
- Statin Drugs May Cause Muscle Weakness & Destruction
- Statin Drugs May Cause Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Death
- Statin Drugs May Damage the Liver
- Stain Drugs May Damage the Brain and Nerves
- Statin Drugs May Cause Depression and Possibly Suicide
- Statin Drugs Impair Memory and the Ability to Think
- Statin Drugs may Cause Cancer
- Which Makes More Sense?
- Adding Vitamins to Statin Drugs
- The Combination of Antioxidant Supplements and Statin Drugs
- The Importance of LDL Cholesterol
- The Role of Diabetes and High Blood Sugar in the Development of Coronary Artery Disease
- Vitamins, Minerals, Antioxidants, and Essential Fatty Acids: The Real Way to Reduce the Risk of Death from Heart Disease and Stroke
- “I’m on Antioxidants, But My Cholesterol is Still High!”
- Age and Arterial Calcifications
- Low Free Testosterone Levels in Men are Associated with an Increased
- Risk of Heart Disease
- C Reactive Protein is Predictive of the Severity of Active Formation of Atherosclerosis
- Testing Your Homocysteine and CRP Levels
- Conclusion
- Specific Daily Supplement Considerations