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Medical Evidence, Hype, Cancer Drugs, Conflict

Sensible Medicine

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How to Modify Your Probability of Having an MI at 55

If you have an MI at age 55, you can seriously modify your probability of having another one by doing a lot of things like diet and exercise. But it seems to me that cancer is somewhat modified, modifiable, but nowhere near to the extent that atherosclerosis is. Right. Look at Bill Clinton after his quadruple bypass in Columbia University. He has now been pretty fine for so many decades. And there's a really great story many years ago as on service with a pair of doctors. The husband is a cardiologist; the woman is a leukemia doctor. They were known for being a militant vegan. His LDL is like, I don't know, 12%; her LDL is

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