Hi Dr Stan, I wanted some advice on what is a safe way to wean my mother off Plavix tablets. She has been on them for 2 1/2 yrs after having a TIA and after finding out that people have died from heart attacks after going suddenly off this medication within a month I was [...]
Weaning off Plavix?
March 15th, 2011 · 12:55 PM
Tags: Coumadin, heart attacks, Nattokinase, Plavix, strokes, TIAs
Fewer Stents May Be Better For Patients
October 22nd, 2008 · 8:36 PM
Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2008
Two studies on stents were recently presented at a cardiology conference. The first found that many patients are being given stents without adequate documentation of ischemia (inadequate oxygen). They are doing it based on visualization of arteries that appear blocked on X-ray, and not on documentation of ischemia as recommended in [...]
Tags: death, heart attacks, heart disease, inflammation, placebo, stents
Is Cholesterol as Bad as They Say?
August 11th, 2008 · 7:18 AM
Take the following true-false test and see how you do. I’ll give you the correct answers below, from an alternative medicine standpoint, and I’ll explain each answer so you can understand the science behind them. (Of course, what you might call “correct” depends on if you believe the information I share with [...]
Tags: antioxidants, cholesterol, CoEnzyme Q10, heart attacks, statins, strokes, vitamin D
Ten Medical Myths
July 8th, 2008 · 7:30 PM
Author’s Note: Recently I received a couple of responses to my article on cholesterol that asked some good questions and were thought-provoking. I want to share with you those questions, as well as the answers I gave to them. This is a good way to enlarge on some of the principles that [...]
Tags: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, heart attacks, heart disease, statins
My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing: