Spacedoc Newsletter
April 28, 2009
Stephen Sinatra MD - Statins, CoQ10, and Carnitine.
What Doctors Don't Tell Patients
One of the main problems with statin drugs is that they deplete the body of CoQ10.

If we have to prescribe a statin we always make sure the patient takes an ample amount of supplemental CoQ10 - at least 100 mg daily and taken with a meal.

Along those same lines I also encourage patients to supplement routinely with carnitine. Recently, both Dr. Graveline and I have reported on a newly discovered source of carnitine problems: statin drugs. 

For years I have seen many new patients who complain of crushing muscle pain, the obvious result of taking statin drugs. Some of them continued to have muscle pain even when I took them off the medication and prescribed CoQ10.

The CoQ10 usually eliminates the problem. In these stubborn cases, improvement didn't occur until I added L-carnitine to the program.  The carnitine enabled the muscles to rebound.

 
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. 
 
The Statin Damage Crisis
The Statin Damage Crisis by Dr. Duane Graveline M.D. is now available.

The cholesterol lowering drugs known as statins are of proven benefit for some groups of people for the prevention of heart attacks and stroke, but statins also have a dark side. Tens of thousands of people have been victims of a huge array of statin drugs side effects.

The Statin Damage Crisis reviews how statins work, the importance of cholesterol in the body, inflammation and atherosclerosis, anti-inflammatory alternatives to statins, serious side effects of statins, and dietary supplements promising possible benefit to those damaged with statin associated neuropathies, myopathies and neuromuscular degeneration.

Sections of the Statin Damage Crisis were previously published in Statin Drugs Side Effects by Dr. Duane Graveline.
 
Order your copy of The Statin Damage Crisis here

Duane Graveline MD MPH
Former USAF Flight Surgeon
Former NASA Astronaut
Retired Family Doctor

 
Three Articles by Dr. Stephen Sinatra

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

The first article was titled:
"From Cholesterol Choirboy to Non-Believer."

The second article was titled:
"How to Determine if You Really Need a Statin."

The third article - the lead in this week's newsletter 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" is now available.
 
Originally planned as a new edition to "Statin Drugs Side Effects," it has been 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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