IHG Has Processed Tier Renewals & Rollover Nights For 2025
IHG always takes its time at the turn of the year to wrap up the numbers, process the rollover nights, and update the member tiers, and this process has now…
Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency. There were two cases of young, strictly vegetarian individuals with no known vascular…
What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Not taking vitamin B12 supplements or regularly eating B12-fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians. Leonardo da Vinci had a stroke. Might his vegetarian diet have…
What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity? In 2014, a study on stroke risk and dietary protein found that greater intake was…
What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized with more meat and dairy? As Japan westernized, the country’s stroke rate plummeted, as you…
What About Vegan Junk Food and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Just because you’re eating a vegetarian or vegan diet doesn’t mean you’re eating healthfully. “Plant-Based Diets Are Associated with a Lower Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, and…
What About Omega-3s and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Does eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk? In my last video, we started to explore what might explain the higher stroke risk in vegetarians found in…
What About Vitamin D and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians versus vegans? In the “Risks of Ischaemic Heart Disease and Stroke in Meat Eaters, Fish…
The 411 on Statins
The cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor has become the best-selling drug of all time, generating more than $140 billion in global sales. This class of drugs garnered so much enthusiasm in…
The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk. “When ranked in order of importance, among the interventions…
Eating to Lower Lp(a)
What should we eat—and not eat—to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a)? Lipoprotein A, also known as Lp(a), is an independent, genetic, and causal factor for cardiovascular disease and…
How to Treat High Lp(a), an Atherosclerosis Risk Factor
What could help explain severe coronary disease in someone with a healthy lifestyle who is considered to be at low cardiovascular disease risk? A young man ended up in the…
