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A viewer asks: “High blood pressure is conventionally regarded as a health risk and that lowering it reduces risk, especially in moderate-to-severe systolic BP of 140-159 mmHg. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick author of Doctoring Data claims that cardiovascular risk increases more steeply after systolic BP reaches around 160-170 mmHg—well beyond the 140/90 threshold often used to diagnose and treat hypertension. A rule of thumb in medicine is that for older individuals, a systolic BP of around 100 + age is a reasonable upper limit beyond which cardiovascular risks increase significantly. Is hypertension over-treated, given that aggressively lowering blood pressure—especially in older individuals—can be harmful?”
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A viewer asks: “A 2018 book, Medical Nihilism, by Jacob Stegenga claims the healthcare system over-adopts treatments and under-recognizes risks. He states confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions should be low because empirical evidence for the efficacy of many treatments is weak due to methodological flaws, publication bias, the influence of commercial interests. He claims positive studies are more likely to be published, screening programs tend to detect and treat cancers that would never cause harm, common treatments can cause long-term complications, short trial durations miss long-term harms etc. How accurate is his view that evidence is systematically skewed and harms are undercounted?”
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A viewer asks: “Dr. Bernard Lown, a Harvard cardiologist in the 1980s, criticized the rapid rise of surgical Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG), noting 20–40% were potentially avoidable, especially in stable angina, and many patients had uncertain survival benefit. He advocated medical therapy—nitrates, beta-blockers, lifestyle changes—for symptom control. How accurate is it to say that in 2026, evidence-based guidelines and trials have reduced avoidable CABG to <10% for high-risk, guideline-selected patients, and that for low-risk, stable patients, surgery rarely improves survival, and that beta-blockers, nitrates, ACE inhibitors, lifestyle changes are to be preferred?”
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A viewer asks: “A 2012 paper in the British Medical Journal “Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities” concluded that “75% (258/344) [of 2009 papers] reported only relative effect measures.” Absolute risk reduction is often far less impressive and less often stated. This suggests that physicians will overestimate the efficacy of treatments and patients may have a misplaced belief in both effectiveness and risks. To what extent does this practice mislead patients and clinicians and benefit pharmaceutical manufacturers?”
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A viewer asks: “Dr. Malcolm Kendrick in his book, Doctoring Data, suggests more patients are harmed by over-treatment than helped. He claims published treatment benefits are often exaggerated by hiding behind relative risk (to mask how tiny most benefits are), selective reporting (such as statistical significance without meaningful benefit), or clever framing (such as natural variation in cholesterol or blood pressure) is medicalized as a treatable condition. To what extent is published medical research actually the fabricated appearance of scientific rigor to sell a product?”
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A viewer asks: “What percentage of patients take drugs for almost no real benefit, even while risking side effects and penalized by the cost?”
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A viewer asks: “Would CircO2 from Advanced Bionutritionals be a worthwhile addition to our supplement regimens and help combat viruses or simply rejuvenate us?” What can Creator tell us?
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Are dried extracts of beetroot, like the X Gold supplement, Beet Root Extract Capsules – 12000mg 20x Concentrated Beet Root Capsules Supplement w/Black Pepper ($22.45 for 90 servings), and the Herba Organic Beet Root Supplement 10,000mg – 180 Vegetable Capsules 20X ($29.99 for 180 servings), just as effective or more so than eating beets in the diet for the variety of health benefits beets can provide?
ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • 
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How effective is the X Gold supplement, Beet Root Extract Capsules – 12000mg 20x Concentrated Beet Root Capsules Supplement w/Black Pepper ($22.45 for 90 servings), compared to Herba Organic Beet Root Supplement 10,000mg – 180 Vegetable Capsules 20X ($29.99 for 180 servings)? The X Gold product delivers 600 mg per dose but costs more than what a 500 mg dose of the Herba product sells for.
ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • 
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Would the best of these perform as well as CircO2 for increasing nitric oxide in the bloodstream?
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A viewer asks: “In regards to lowering blood pressure or at least stabilizing it, can you compare the products: Herba- Organic Beetroot powder capsules, 20/1, 10,000 mg equivalent, and Naka Platinum-Organic Beetroot, 1400mg per dose, Maximum Potency capsules. How would you rank them in safety, quality, and effectiveness?”
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How would CircO2 compare with the best of these beetroot extracts?
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A viewer asks: “Will these [CircO2, Herba-Organic Beetroot powder capsules, and Naka Platinum Organic Beetroot] be an effective hypertension stabilizing supplement for my mother and even myself as I age to maintain normal levels?”
ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • 
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Peak Pure & Natural has a nutraceutical called Peak BP Platinum™ they say when used daily gives you clinically-proven doses of MegaNatural®-BP Grape Seed Extract… Vitamin K2 (as MK-7)… Pterostilbene… and Green tea extract to help…”Keep blood vessels flexible! Douse the fire in your arteries! OPEN blood vessels wide! Keep artery-clogging calcium out of your veins and arteries and reroute it to your bones and teeth where it belongs! And experience healthy blood pressure!” Is Peak BP Platinum superior to Carditrol for regulating and maintaining normal blood pressure?
ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • 
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How effective is SuperBeets Heart Powder from Humann, which is an extract of beetroots for promoting health, compared to Carditrol from GDRLabs which is a beetroot extract also containing cholecalciferol?
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