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Statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs are powerful. But new questions are being raised about the evidence behind medical guidelines for their use. Even more disturbing, there is a possible link between low cholesterol and the likelihood of developing Parkinson’s disease. The hot stuff in hot peppers, capsaicin, may turn out to be a cancer fighter. We talk with the British scientist who’s been looking into this possibility. The People's Pharmacy pediatrician, Dr. Alan Greene, tells us how we can encourage children to be more physically active. The lines will be open for calls from listeners at 888-472-3366! Guests: Xumei Huang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Parkinson’s Disease Clinic Timothy Bates, PhD, physiologist and specialist in cell metabolism and cancer biology at the University of Nottingham. John Abramson, MD, Author of Overdosed America. He is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Alan Greene, MD, founder and CEO of drgreene.com and Stanford University Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. His book is From First Kicks to First Steps: Nurturing Your Baby’s Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life.