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• Super helpful Paul!
  May 7, 2021

• Grimes DS. Statins and Changing Number Needed to Treat (NNT). J Cardiovasc Disord. 2015; 2(3): 1018. "For women age 50 or less, the Number Needed to Treat with a statin for 5 years to prevent one death is 5000 people." Your patient is over the age in this study, but not by far. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f6123 "A review of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease could alter guidance for those with a 10 year risk of less than 10%. John Abramson and colleagues argue that statins have no overall health benefit in this population" Kristensen ML, Christensen PM, Hallas J. The effect of statins on average survival in randomised trials, an analysis of end point postponement. BMJ Open 2015;5:e007118. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007118 "The median postponement of death for primary and secondary prevention trials [using statins] were 3.2 and 4.1 days [based on 11 studies spanning 2.1-6 years] respectively.
  May 3, 2021

• […] research on benefits, see: When COVID-19 Shrinks Away, Our Obesity and Diabetes Epidemic Will Still be Growing (Nicholas Norwitz, Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners, April 20, […]
  May 2, 2021

• Excellent, well written! We are truly in the battle of humanity here and right under everyone's noses-- literally too! We need to disseminate well supported information to the masses and keep pressing on! The truth will set us free!
  May 1, 2021

• Ok, great news on the Forums front. We have now set it up so that all the members are notified by email each time a new topic is added or a comment is left on an existing topic. It is also possible to reply directly to the email and your reply will be added to that thread without you actually having to go and log into the SMHP site and visit the forum. Hopefully this will make the forum discussions a whole lot easier to participate in and contribute to establishing the consensus we need around Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction (TCR) as Standard of Care (SoC).
  April 30, 2021

• Time to expose the influence of Big Food in medicine. Thanks for being a leader in demanding true excellence in medicine/medical research and advocating for a partnership between patients and provider. This is an excellent article.
  April 23, 2021

• Yep when I hear eat in moderation to those that are sugar and carb addicts I cringe because if you a drug addict or cealic no one tells them to use their drug of choice in moderation or a cealic eat wheat in moderation so why tell a T1D OR T2D eat high carbs moderation of sugar to then take drugs to get their BSL Down make their pancreas to work hard to try and bring their blood sugar spike down whilst still damaging their body. I try my best to eat LC but when you go out to buy lunch or function guess whats on offer.
  April 22, 2021

• A brave and timely opinion piece thank you Nick Norwitz. When COVID-19 shrinks away there is no doubt our obesity and diabetes epidemic will still be growing :-( We need to stop bandaiding sick-care and instead, get to the root cause of the obesity and Type 2 diabetes epidemic. Until then our society will continue to be metabolically vulnerable to a raft of complications. Thank you for bringing up the 'rewards' of Covid vaccinations... Krispy Kreme is marketing itself brilliantly. And we, as a society, are falling for it :-( We really do need to consider food as medicine and stop industry and religious ideology shaping our low fat, high carb dietary and health guidelines. Thank you for broaching this emotive topic and for your heartfelt plea for treating the root cause without industry or ideological bias
  April 21, 2021

• Excellent article
  April 21, 2021

• I appreciate your ability to tell the truth with compassion.
  April 21, 2021