The good news is your “diabetes” may even be reversible when your statin treatment is over. I’ve counted 84 people (including my BookFace mom) who got off their statin and reversed their “diabetes.”

It may be news to you, but many studies and reports have shown that statins can cause raise blood sugar, which is sadly and disgracefully mistaken for “diabetes.” Now you’re on the expensive medication merry-go-round!

Another bombshell coming: People with high cholesterol have a lower risk of getting diabetes, which is in keeping with what I just told you about statins triggering the condition. I’ve got the most current information now. Researchers looked at the rates of diabetes among 63,385 Dutch residents in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2014. Of these participants, 25,137 had inherited “Familial Hypercholesterolemia” which is a condition that means high cholesterol from their inherited genes. These people with the genetic snp (pronounced snip) coding for high cholesterol displayed significantly lower rates of type 2 diabetes! The details were reported in the March 2015 edition of JAMA if you want to look it up. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes was actually 38% lower, which suggests high cholesterol protects against diabetes. Keep in the back of your mind how people taking statin drugs face an increased risk of developing diabetes, anywhere from 9 to 46 percent depending on what study you read.

It’s pure genius if you think about it. Here you have multiple studies showing how cholesterol-reducing statins raise blood sugar, and now we see clearly that people who have higher endogenous levels of cholesterol are protected from diabetes. I’m talking about endogenous (body-produced) cholesterol, okay, so this is not your excuse to eat bacon.

Insulin is your God-given pancreatic hormone and it’s secreted to help reduce blood sugar after you eat and drink. You want some insulin to maintain blood glucose levels, but too much of it is the equivalent of acid in your veins. And guess what? The use of statin drugs appears to increase your insulin levels!

Now I’ll summarize this:

• High insulin and blood sugar is extremely harmful to your health.
• The regulation of glucose and insulin is crucial.
• The ‘standard of practice’ in medicine calls for severely low levels of cholesterol (in my opinion) hence the need for statins.
• Statins reduce cholesterol, but may raise insulin and blood sugar over time.
• Medications used to reduce blood sugar do not address the full-body inflammatory process that is going on.
• If you started a statin drug, and now have diabetes, try to lower your cholesterol with diet and exercise, and don’t lower it too much.

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What do you think about fish oil being linked to prostate cancer? I used to take it everyday but stopped after hearing about it in the news. Do you still recommend it?

Answer: My opinion is that headlines which suggest fish oils raise risk for prostate cancer are nonsense. Some people cannot even think their way around this and have given up fish oils despite scientifically-sound literature that, if printed, could fill a football stadium.

I hope you’re sitting down. There is no evidence that anybody in this study took fish oil dietary supplements! Nowhere in the new study does it say “fish oil,” it says omega 3. In 2010, researchers evaluated ethyl esters of omega 3 fatty acids. That’s actually a drug. Repeat: When you talk about “ethyl esters of omega 3s” you are talking about a patented prescription version of fish oils. It would never surprise me if scientists tied a pharmaceutical drug to higher cancer risk, but the headlines I keep reading say “fish oil.” High-quality fish oils causing prostate cancer? Au contraire!

You cannot take something natural, morph it in a laboratory, patent it and expect health benefits. You can’t mess with fish oils, or anything. That’s why natural progesterone protects a woman’s breasts, while the synthetic drug version (medroxyprogesterone) has dozens of potential side effects. There’s vitamin D3, a natural form as opposed to D2, a drug sold as a drug. Your body has to convert the D2 drug back to natural D3, why not just buy that to begin with? Benzodiazepines like alprazolam or lorazepam, are highly addictive and have more risks compared to natural plant extracts that bind to GABA receptors and relax you naturally. Oh my goodness, margarine! A shmear of potent food additives, colorants and fat globules versus natural butter. Trust me, do not mess with mother nature!

Why were plasma levels measured when they are meaningless?! Red blood cell levels were never even obtained. Common sense now, the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization, the United States Institute of Medicine’s Food Nutrition Board and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans advise us to eat more fatty fish so as to obtain omega-3 fish oil benefits. There’s something fishy going on, do you think those organizations are in cahoots to induce prostate cancer in the male population?

Fish oil’s primary components are EPA or DHA. Tight studies show DHA is protective for the prostate. In 2001, a study of 6,000 Swedish men found that high fish consumption significantly lowered prostate cancer rates. In New Zealand, men with the highest DHA markers slashed prostate cancer risk by almost 40 percent. A Japanese study found omega 3 blood levels correlated to a reduction in prostate cancer. So, my conclusion is omega 3s derived from fatty fish and fish oil supplements are safe and healthy, especially when taken with GLA. Supplement properly, directions on how to do so are posted at my site.

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