Several years ago, Byron Richards, CCN, reported that Neurontin and Lyrica are a death sentence for new brain synapses. Today there is more evidence to support the adverse effects these drugs have on the nervous system. If you have used one of these drugs or are currently using them, there is even more incentive to protect your nerves and reverse damage.

Those with hypothyroidism have significantly increased free radical production, a problem that is further magnified if cholesterol is also elevated. This means that individuals with inefficient metabolism should take higher levels of antioxidants to protect against problems occurring as part of the hypothyroid issue.

Elevating levels of the hormone leptin typically accompany abdominal obesity, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure. Leptin seeks to communicate, as if making a phone call, to the soluble leptin receptors in numerous locations throughout the body and general circulatory system. This communication is vital for the normal function of...

The recently discovered “gut-retina axis” describes a delicate inter-relationship between gut flora, immune cells that signal the retina, and the eye microbiome.

Two new studies add to an overwhelming amount of data that supports the assertion that artificially-sweetened and sugar-sweetened soda beverages cause disease. Will Coke, Pepsi, and others in the billion-dollar sugar industry experience the same legal troubles as those in the tobacco industry? I struggle to care whether ignorant and addicted people choose...

Several recent studies are throwing water on Big Pharma’s statin parade. Shockingly, mainstream media-- who is paid big money by Big Pharma--is running headlines like this, Statins: Bad Idea for People with Good Hearts? At risk is the juggernaut PR machine of Big Pharma and tens of billions of fraudulent drug sales every year.

Lowering of serum cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic humans by tocotrienols (palmvitee).

Type 2 Diabetes and Lipoprotein Metabolism Affect LPS-Induced Cytokine and Chemokine Release in Primary Human Monocytes.

The structure of an inhibitor of cholesterol biosynthesis isolated from barley.

Clinical use of pantethine by parenteral route in the treatment of Hyperlipidemia.

Lipoprotein changes induced by pantethine in hyperlipoproteinemic patients: adults and children.

Plasma homocysteine concentrations and serum lipid profile as atherosclerotic risk factors in subclinical hypothyroidism.