How to supercharge your  cholesterol-lowering supplements Ron’s cholesterol was high. The lab test said it was 265. Well, 20 years ago, anything under 300 would have been fine. But the drug companies have persuaded conventional medicine to drop that to 200. Now they’re saying the lower the better (which is not always true). Regardless, we’re all under assault to drop our cholesterol to 180 or lower using statins. As you may know, statins carry a huge risk. They can cause heart failure, muscle weakness, and even brain injury. So there was no way Ron was going to try statins. Instead, he made some changes to his diet — he primarily stopped eating gluten. And he began using Advanced Cholesterol Formula. His overall cholesterol dropped 30 points in just a couple of months. His doctor was thrilled. Ron thought that was enough. But the doctor persisted.

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Two-nutrient combination helps reduce belly fat If you’re trying to lose weight, the area you want to reduce more than anything is probably around your belly. This is often the hardest weight to lose. And it’s usually the first place we gain weight. Trying to drop this excess fat can be very frustrating. But a new study says two nutrients can help you lose belly fat faster. In this study, researchers wanted to find out if taking calcium and vitamin D together can help you lose belly fat. So they conducted two parallel, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials to find out.

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Does saw palmetto  really treat BPH? As you may know, saw palmetto is an age-old remedy for prostate enlargement. Study after study has shown it effective. But you may have heard about a recent study suggesting that saw palmetto doesn’t reduce BPH better than a placebo.  In that study, researchers followed 369 men with BPH. They gave them either increasing doses of saw palmetto or a placebo for 72 weeks. For the saw palmetto, the treatment dose started at 320 milligrams daily. Then at 24 weeks, they increased the dose to 320 mg twice daily. Then, after another 24 weeks, they increased it to three doses of 320 mg daily.

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Back in the early 1970s, when supplements were just gaining popularity, my Aunt Bev started taking alfalfa tablets. My Uncle Len just couldn’t understand why she wanted to take tablets she bought at the store instead of just eating alfalfa sprouts. Now remember, I come from a family of itinerant farm workers during the Great Depression. So the whole tablet thing was foreign to my family’s way of thinking. Alfalfa, to them, was a plant they ate straight from the field. Not a tablet. In fact, when Uncle Len first looked at the tablets, you could see his bewilderment. Of course, we all busted out laughing when he said, “Why, you could simply follow a rabbit through our alfalfa field and you’d get the same thing — and it’d be a lot cheaper too.”

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The other day, a friend of mine told me his dear friend has leukemia. Whenever I hear about a new leukemia diagnosis, my heart breaks. Leukemia isn’t like most cancers. Rather than having a measurable tumor in a specific site of the body, leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow. It can spread throughout your body almost instantly through your marrow. And it can spread to other organs of the body very quickly. What’s worse, it carries a high fatality rate for those over 60. For leukemia, prevention is a must. And a new study on fish oil gives hope that prevention is possible.

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