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Spacedoc Newsletter
June 2, 2009
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Dr. Kilmer McCully, M.D. - Cholesterol |
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The second - Homocysteine - will be in the newsletter in two weeks.
The third installment - Infections and Vulnerable Plaques - will follow.
Introduction by Kilmer Mcully, M.D.
When you are examined by your primary care physician or nurse for an annual health evaluation, a part of the routine examination is analysis of samples of blood and urine.
In this way serious life-threatening conditions like cancer, leukemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, or cirrhosis of the liver can sometimes be detected at an early treatable stage of the disease.
One dreaded result from analysis of your blood or urine involves elevated blood cholesterol and the risk of heart attack or stroke, the number one killer in the USA today. Another result is elevation of the level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood, which is also associated with increased risk of vascular disease and many other serious medical conditions.
I spent 40 years, the major part of my professional career, pursuing the connection between homocysteine, cancer, arteriosclerosis, and diseases of aging. The purpose of this series of articles is to discuss the way in which cholesterol, homocysteine, and infections interact in the cells and tissues of the body to promote these serious diseases.
These articles will focus on how these factors conspire to create the vulnerable plaques of atherosclerosis in the lining of the arteries. When vulnerable plaques rupture, the results are hemorrhage into the plaque and thrombosis (blood clot) causing occlusion of the lumen of the artery. This disastrous complication is the direct cause of heart attack, stroke, and amputation, depending upon which artery is affected.
Kilmer S. McCully, M.D.
Chief, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service
West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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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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