Spacedoc Newsletter
April 14, 2009
Stephen Sinatra MD - From Cholesterol Choirboy to Non-Believer
Like Dr. Graveline, I have been reporting on the dangers of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs for years. In my clinical practice I have weaned many new patients off statins who had no business being on them in the first place. 

Many were experiencing side effects that their doctors either dismissed or didn't recognize as related to statins. After starting such patients on a program of targeted nutritional supplementation, the vast majority have been able to maintain good heart and overall health without the need of statins.

I don't prescribe statins to patients unless they have serious heart disease, and then not in every case. I certainly don't prescribe statins to bring down some total cholesterol number which often has no significance.

Read More from Dr Sinatra on Cholesterol and Statins
 
Stephen Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.N.
Dr. Sinatra is a board-certified Connecticut cardiologist who integrates conventional medical treatments for heart disease with complementary nutritional, anti-aging, and psychological therapies. 
 
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To complement Dr Sinatra's article on Cholesterol and Statins in this newsletter, it is worth revisiting these three previous articles by Dr Graveline that contribute to the cholesterol debate.
 
More next week from Dr Sinatra

Dr Stephen Sinatra has written three articles for the spacedoc.net site.

The first article linked to in this week's newsletter is titled:
"From Cholesterol Choirboy to Non-Believer."

The second article will be in next week's newsletter ( which will be sent out Tuesday April 21st.)
The title for this article is:
"How to Determine if You Really Need a Statin."

The third article is scheduled for the April 28 newsletter and is titled:
"Statins, CoQ10, and Carnitine - What Doctors Don't Tell Patients."
 
Books by Dr Duane Graveline MD MPH
"The Statin Damage Crisis" by Dr Duane Graveline M.D.

BooksDr Graveline's third book on statins called "The Statin Damage Crisis" will be available in April.
 
Originally planned as a new edition to "Statin Drugs Side Effects," it will instead be released as a stand alone title so that the highly relevant material in "SDSE" will still be available.

Dr Graveline wrote the following introduction to this latest title:
 
Early on my NASA doctors told me my amnesia response to statins was nothing but a coincidence but I persevered to write my first book, "Lipitor, Thief of Memory" and now find that over 1,000 cases of amnesia and memory loss have been reported to the FDA, just from Lipitor alone.
 
Then I learned of statin damage to nerves and muscles and profound behavioral and personality changes, demanding I write a second book, "Statin Drugs Side Effects." Even this broadly encompassing book was insufficient to describe what I have learned more recently of the truly dark side of statins - their ability to alter the very fabric of our makeup.
 
I had long wondered why muscle and nerve damage seemed permanent and even progressive like my own ALS-like condition. Now I have found that the ultimate effect of statins on CoQ10 and dolichols is to damage the DNA of the mitochondrial life - force within our cells - mitochondrial mutation masquerading as premature old age. 
 
Duane Graveline MD MPH
Former USAF Flight Surgeon, Former NASA Astronaut, Retired Family Doctor 
 
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