People with with mild hypertension (140-159 / 90-99 mm Hg) who had no cardiovascular disease and no cardiovascular disease risk factors who were treated with blood pressure drugs were 9% MORE likely to develop cardiovascular disease during a median follow-up of 5.8 years than people of the same age and blood pressure who were NOT taking blood pressure drugs according to a 2018 study.

People with with mild hypertension (140-159 / 90-99 mm Hg) who had no cardiovascular disease and no cardiovascular disease risk factors who were treated with blood pressure drugs were 34% MORE likely to develop congestive heart failure during a median follow-up of 5.8 years than people of the same age and blood pressure who were NOT taking blood pressure drugs according to a 2018 study.

People with with mild hypertension (140-159 / 90-99 mm Hg) who had no cardiovascular disease and no cardiovascular disease risk factors who were treated with blood pressure drugs were 37% MORE likely to develop acute kidney injury during a median follow-up of 5.8 years than people of the same age and blood pressure who were NOT taking blood pressure drugs according to a 2018 study.

People with with mild hypertension (140-159 / 90-99 mm Hg) who had no cardiovascular disease and no cardiovascular disease risk factors who were treated with blood pressure drugs were 72% MORE likely to develop electrolyte abnormalities during a median follow-up of 5.8 years than people of the same age and blood pressure who were NOT taking blood pressure drugs according to a 2018 study.

Women with low LDL levels of less than 70 mg/dL were 2.2 times more likely to have a hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding stroke) than women with LDL levels of 100–129.9 mg/dL during an average follow-up of 19.3 years according to a new study.

“LDL-C levels <70 mg/dL and low triglyceride levels were associated with increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke among women,” the authors of the paper concluded.

Hobbs: Telling people that they should take drugs to get their LDL levels as low as possible is bad medicine.

It’s not about truth. It’s about making money.

It’s about influence from the drug companies who have changed the guidelines because they want everybody taking statins to lower cholesterol so they can make as much money as possible.

The same thing is true for blood pressure when they tell people that they should take a drug or multiple drugs to get their blood pressure as low as possible. It’s bad medicine.

It’s not about truth. It’s about making money.

The one-fourth of women with low triglyceride levels of less than 74 mg/dL were 2 times more likely to have a hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding stroke) than the one-forth of women with the highest triglyceride levels of greater than 156 mg/dL during an average follow-up of 19.3 years according to a new study.

High-intensity statin therapy was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury by 16% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

High-intensity statin therapy was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury in those over 75-years by 22% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

High-intensity statin therapy was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury in those 65-75 years by 9% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

High-intensity statin therapy was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury in women by 29% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

The study showed that the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury with high-intensity statin use was greater among women than men.

The authors of the study speculated that the reason for this “may be due to higher blood levels of statin at a given dose among women than in men, due to the generally lower body size of women.”

High-intensity statin therapy was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury in men by 7% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

High-intensity statin therapy combined with taking an ACE inhibitor or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury in men by 26% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

High-intensity statin therapy combined with taking a diuretic was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury by 35% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

Medium-intensity statin therapy was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury by 7% compared to non-users during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

Medium-intensity statin therapy combined with taking a diuretic was found to increase the risk of hospitalization for acute kidney injury by 23% compared to non-users versus 6% for those not taking a diuretic during a median follow-up of 4.6 years according to a new study.

People who reported a history of three (3) childhood infections or more were 80% less likely to have Hodgkin’s lymphoma compared with those that reported no infection according to a 2005 study.

People who reported a history of three (3) childhood infections or more were 40% less likely to have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma compared with those that reported no infection according to a 2005 study.

People who reported a history of childhood measles were 66% less likely to have Hodgkin’s lymphoma compared with those that reported not having had childhood measles according to a 2005 study.

People who reported a history of childhood measles were 40% less likely to have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma compared with those that reported not having had childhood measles according to a 2005 study.

People who reported a history of childhood chickenpox 47% less likely to have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma compared with those that reported not having had childhood measles according to a 2005 study.

In this 23-second video clip, Peter Aaby, DMSc, founder of the Bandim Health Project in West Africa, notes that they found that a new measles vaccine that was recommended by the WHO in 1989 increased the death rate in female infants 2-fold.

He notes that, had it been implemented, the new measles vaccine would have caused an additional 500,000 female deaths in Africa.

Peter Aaby is credited for the discovery of non-specific effects of vaccines – i.e. effects of vaccines, which go beyond the specific protective effects against the targeted diseases.

Infants 3 to 5 months old were 5-times more likely to die if they had received both the Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine and the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) than infants of the same age who had not been vaccinated according to a 2017 study of an urban African community by Danish researchers.

Infants 3 to 5 months old were 10-times more likely to die if they had received only the Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and not the Oral Polio Vaccine.

(In other words, giving the oral polio vaccine along with the DTP vaccine seemed to reduce the negative effects of the DTP vaccine.)

“All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis,” the authors of the study concluded.

When a cell phone is held next to the body, such as held next to the head or in a pocket or in a bra, people are exposed to up to 9 times more radiation than current US guidelines allow according to recent test data from the French national radiation testing agency as noted by toxicologist and epidemiologist, Devra Davis PhD, MPH, President and Founder of Environmental Health Trust.

Davis also notes that it has been known for ten years that men who carry their cell phone in their pocket have lower sperm counts and lower sperm qualitys.

The study found that people with low cholesterol levels — below 200 mg/dL — who had an ischemic stroke were 88% more likely to die over the next 5 years compared with people who had higher cholesterol levels — above 200 mg/dL.

To say this the other way, people who had an ischemic stroke who had higher cholesterol levels — above 200 mg/dL — were 47% less likely to die over the next 5 years than people with lower cholesterol levels — below 200 mg/dL.

Why would you ever give a statin or any other cholesterol-lowering drug to anyone who has had a stroke after seeing the results of this study?

Good adherence to taking a cholesterol-lowering drug known as clofibrate was associated with a 39% lower mortality compared to those with poor adherence to taking clofibrate (15% mortality vs 24.6% mortality) according to a 1980 study, however the same thing was true for placebo; those with good adherence to taking placebo was associated with a 47% lower mortality compared to those with poor adherence to taking placebo (15.1% mortality vs 28.3% mortality).

Mercury is the only material ever found to cause the exact same five (5) biochemical changes seen in Alzheimer’s Disease according to Boyd Haley, PhD, former Prof. and Chairman of the Chemistry Dept. at the University of Kentucky, who has been studying mercury toxicity since 1987.

1. Mercury causes Tubulin to fall apart which you see in Alzheimer’s.
2. Mercury causes Neurofibrillary Tangles which you see in Alzheimer’s.
3. Mercury causes overproduction of Beta Amyloid which you see in Alzheimer’s.
4. Mercury causes Hyper-phosphorylation of Tau protein which you see in Alzheimer’s.
5. Mercury causes inhibition of Creatine Kinase which you see in Alzheimer’s.

Mercury is found in dental amalgams (mercury / silver fillings which are 50% mercury) and some vaccines, as well as being found in fish, and is released into the air from coal-fired power plants.

Blood mercury levels were more than 2-times higher in Alzheimer’s patients than age-matched controls, and almost 3-times higher in early-onset Alzheimer’s than age-matched controls according to a 1998 study from Switzerland.

Here is a video from the University of Calgary showing that mercury causes brain neuron degeneration as seen in Alzheimer’s disease.

Aspirin use lowers the risk of a cardiovascular event—heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death—by 11% and increases the risk of a major bleed by 43% according to a new meta analysis in JAMA that analyzed 13 aspirin trials randomizing 164, 225 participants.

The one-fifth of people consuming the most protein from meat were 61% more likely to die from cardiovascular disease over an average follow-up of 9.4 years compared to the one-fifth of people consuming the least according to a new study from researchers at Loma Linda University.

This was after adjusting for lifestyle factors.

“Associations between the ‘Meat’ and ‘Nuts & Seeds’ protein factors and cardiovascular outcomes were strong and could not be ascribed to other associated nutrients considered to be important for cardiovascular health,” the study concluded.

“Our results suggest that healthy choices can be advocated based on protein sources, specifically preferring diets low in meat intake and with a higher intake of plant proteins from nuts and seeds.”

The one-fifth of people consuming the most protein from nuts & seems were 40% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease over an average follow-up of 9.4 years compared to the one-fifth of people consuming the least according to a new study from researchers at Loma Linda University.

This was after adjusting for lifestyle factors.

“Associations between the ‘Meat’ and ‘Nuts & Seeds’ protein factors and cardiovascular outcomes were strong and could not be ascribed to other associated nutrients considered to be important for cardiovascular health,” the study concluded.

“Our results suggest that healthy choices can be advocated based on protein sources, specifically preferring diets low in meat intake and with a higher intake of plant proteins from nuts and seeds.”

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, author of The Great Cholesterol Con and the book Doctoring Data, wrote a terrific article summarizing his views on what causes cardiovascular disease, and what does not.

He explains why the LDL hypothesis of cardiovascular disease makes no sense.

He says, “The LDL hypothesis is nonsense, it is wrong, and it does not remotely fit with any other factors known to cause CVD [cardiovascular disease].”

He also explains why inflammation is not the cause of cardiovascular disease, and instead, it is simply part of the repair process (which is happening all the time).

Below are highlights from his article, but I encourage you to read the entire article, because it contains a lot more than just the highlights that I am including below.

Japanese who drank less than one cup of coffee per day were 9% less likely to die over the next 18.7 years compared to those who never drank coffee according to a recent study.

“We showed an inverse association between coffee intake and total mortality in both men and women,” the authors of the study concluded.

Japanese who drank 1-2 cups of coffee per day were 15% less likely to die over the next 18.7 years compared to those who never drank coffee according to a recent study.

“We showed an inverse association between coffee intake and total mortality in both men and women,” the authors of the study concluded.

Japanese who drank 3-4 cups of coffee per day were 24% less likely to die over the next 18.7 years compared to those who never drank coffee according to a recent study.

“We showed an inverse association between coffee intake and total mortality in both men and women,” the authors of the study concluded.

Japanese who drank more than 5 cups per day were 15% less likely to die over the next 18.7 years compared to those who never drank coffee according to a recent study.

“We showed an inverse association between coffee intake and total mortality in both men and women,” the authors of the study concluded.

Each increase in consumption of one (1) cup of coffee per day was associated with a 6% lower risk of death in non-smokers over some number of years according to an analysis of 31 studies including a total of 1,610,543 people.

“In conclusion, coffee consumption is associated with decreased risk of mortality from all-cause, [ cardiovascular disease ], and cancer,” the authors of the paper concluded.

People drinking up to four (4) cups of coffee per day were 14% less likely to die over some number of years according to an analysis of 31 studies including a total of 1,610,543 people.

“In conclusion, coffee consumption is associated with decreased risk of mortality from all-cause, [ cardiovascular disease ], and cancer,” the authors of the paper concluded.