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http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ has some interesting pages against statins. Personally I'd scrutinize things as best I could before considering following a doctor's recommendation for statins.

I'm pretty ignorant about the holistic health thing, but wouldn't a fairer question be what's the holistic treatment for a given person with HIV? I thought the whole point was to consider a whole person as a complex system, not a database record with the feature "HIV+".




Thank you for sharing the link. Her articles are not peer reviewed, and I don't think they would pass muster. She seems to blend evidence with anecdote to argue for a point. For example, lines such as "Increasingly, orthopedic clinics are seeing patients whose problems turn out to be solvable by simply terminating statin therapy, as evidenced by a recent report of three cases within a single year in one clinic, all of whom had normal creatine kinase levels, the usual indicator of muscle damage monitored with statin usage, and all of whom were "cured" by simply stopping statin therapy (Shyam Kumar et al., 2008)".

One case report does not bear the same weight as a randomized, controlled trial (of which there are now dozens). Yet that's the kind of stuff that's the basis for her argument. The reference about fructose in the next paragraph twists Vila's paper 180 degrees. Etc. I would be interested to see what would happen if she submitted this as a review paper. I sincerely doubt that it would get published, not because of her conclusions, but because of the way in which this paper mistreats evidence.




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