Just wanted to thank you again for the excellent lecture you conducted at PiMedia on Wednesday. It was very informative and empowering. I really admired the way you encouraged us to do some research and take charge of our own health. I could really relate to your point about “keeping an eye on our parents”. Both my Father and Mother have been subject to some overmedication issues with regard to cholesterol and diabetes. Often people of our parents generation tend to hold doctors up to an almost God-like status and never question or challenge what they are being told or prescribed. I also found the correlation between lowering cholesterol via statin drugs and the increase in depression and violent suicide quite frightening. This hits home for me because my husband (Chris) has suffered from chronic depression for most of his adult life. We will definitely be doing some research on that! Also, he is due for some blood tests soon and I will suggest that he ask the doctor to include Apolipoprotein B levels. I wanted to thank you as well, for answering my questions with regard to Chris’ cholesterol (having just been prescribed a third medication) As per your recommendation, I am encouraging him to focus his exercise efforts on strengthening exercises and weights and to greatly reduce the number of flour/grain-based calories he eats. It really helps to have some scientific arguments to go along with these suggestions. There is so much “smoke and mirrors” out there when it comes to these things.