Associate Professor (voluntary) of Family and Preventive Medicine and of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego

Author of:

• What You Must Know About Statin Drugs and Their Natural Alternatives
• Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies
• The Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure
• The Magnesium Solution for Migraine Headaches

Jay S. Cohen, M.D. is a nationally recognized expert on medications and side effects. As an Associate Professor (voluntary) of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Cohen's work has been featured in newspapers and magazines across America including the New York Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, Consumer Reports, Wall Street Journal, Modern Majority, Women's Day, Bottom Line Health, and Life Extension Magazine. Dr. Cohen has appeared on more than 100 radio programs including National Public Radio, the People's Pharmacy, and the Gary Null show.

Dr. Cohen accepts no funding from the drug industry or government. Dr. Cohen is a b advocate for patients' rights of informed consent, an expert on improving medication safety, and long-time critic of the drug industry. His previous book, Over Dose: The Case Against The Drug Companies (Tarcher/Putnam 2001) received unanimously excellent reviews. Dr. Cohen has presented his independent research on making medications safer as a featured speaker at major medical conferences and at the FDA. He has publicly debated the FDA's top medication expert on four occasions. In his books and medical journal articles, Dr. Cohen warned about problems with antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil, anti-inflammatory drugs such as Celebrex and Bextra, and hormones such as Premarin and Prempro. Subsequently, each of these drugs became a national concern when new toxicities were revealed.

Dr. Cohen believes that these problems can be avoided with better, individualized medication treatment. In his new book on statin cholesterol-lowering drugs (Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Mevacor, Lescol, Crestor), he informs patients how to choose between prescription drugs and alternative therapies, and how to use them as safely and effectively as possible

With special guest Dr. Jay Cohen author of What You Must Know About Statin Drugs and Their Natural Alternatives. Dr. Cohen is interviewed by Liz, discusses his new book, and explains how you can lower cholesterol and other cardiac risk factors with statin drugs (Lipitor Zocor, Pravachol, Mevacor, Lescol, Crestor) or with effective alternative methods.

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