The Statin Damage Crisis

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  • EAN: 9781424338696
  • Manufacturer: Duane Graveline MD MPH

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  • The purpose in the choice of the title The Statin Damage Crisis is to draw attention to the thousands of statin damaged people who have written to Dr Graveline about their disabling neuropathies, myopathies and a variety of neurodegenerative conditions such as ALS and Parkinsonism associated with statin use. Although much of the book's content will be familiar to readers of Statin Drugs Side Effects, ( this was originally planned as a new edition ) the Statin Damage Crisis adds much new material that Dr Graveline has learned of in the past two years. Dr Graveline states: "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." "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."

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  • Summary: Damage Crisis Is Right
  • Comment: I have read several books on statin drugs. The two best are "Fat and Cholesterol Are Good For You," by Uffe Ravnskov and "The Statin Damage Crisis," by Duane Graveline. What I especially appreciated about Graveline's book is the specific instructions he gives concerning diet and supplements. Having read many books on the subject of diet, there are many conflicting viewpoints presented. Some diets are totally unhealthy. It takes wisdom from God to know which diets are good ones and which are a bunch of unhealthy hype. My favorite book on diet is "Metabolic Typing Diet," by William Wolcott. The premise of the book is that different metabolic types need differing amounts of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.

    Another appealing feature of Graveline's book is the way he thoroughly explains the way statins work and how they deplete various essential nutrients in the body, such as CoQ10 and dolichols. He gives a thorough explanation of the role inflammation plays in heart disease and also details statin's role in reducing inflammation. He gives detailed information on less toxic alternatives than statins to reducing inflammation in the body.

    Cholesterol is brain food and since the proteins that carry cholesterol are to large to pass the blood brain barrier, the brain must depend on its own cholesterol synthesis, which the glial cells provide. Without abundant supplies of cholesterol, normal brain synaptic function can not occur. The glial cells of the brain are just as sensitive to the effects of cholesterol reduction from statin drug use as any other part of the body. Not just the brain, but every part of our bodies need adequate amounts of cholesterol to function properly. He thoroughly discusses the disease processes and nasty side affects that disrupted cholesterol levels can cause.

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  • Summary: The Author Has It Right, But Fails to Deliver A Convincing Message.
  • Comment: The author, Dr. Duane Graveline, correctly assesses the impact of statin drugs on the body, but fails to provide a detailed scientific review of the evidence. As a scientist, I would have appreciated a more comprehensive evaluation of the published literature cited in this work. Instead, Dr. Graveline writes to inform the lay person, providing a cursory review of statin drug action in the body by highlighting toxic and beneficial effects. While he is "right on" with the books message, he fails to provide a convincing message to the audience he needs to reach, the prescribing doctors. For a more thorough handing of this subject, I recommend several of the sources cited by this work, including those by Dr. Kilmer S. McCully and Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, Ph.D..

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  • Summary: never took them, and never will
  • Comment: I have never taken statins, as I avoid ALL perscription drugs except for the occasional truly needed anti-biotic.
    A healthy body does not need drugs. Concentrate on health through diet. This book explains how damaging statins can be, I recommend it to all who think they "need" a statin to prevent heart disease...what a sick joke on the uninformed.

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  • Summary: Shocking
  • Comment: My only criticism of this book is that it could use a good editor, but it is self published.

    That said, how can I explain what it feels like to have a book make you cry - with relief! My mom was on a statin (Provacol) for 3-4 years before she died. None of us could understand what was happening to her. After starting the drug, she was ever more forgetful, irritable, uncooperative, depressed and picking fights. This was so not her! None of us connected the dots.

    Then a few years ago I was put on the minimal dose of Lipitor when in my late 50's just because of family history of heart attack. My cholesterol was normal. I became progressively more forgetful, felt a loss of strength, developed quite a difficulty with night driving, began to feel uncoordinated. My somewhat troublesome right knee really escalated in pain and other joints started to hurt to the point that I did not want to walk any distance. Occasionally I was having trouble swallowing during dinner and then I started losing the feeling in my right small toe. I do not have diabetes. What's important to know here is this was all VERY gradual, so I never associated one thing with the other. I could not believe how OLD I felt @ 61.

    I stumbled on Graveline's book after reading a series of other very eye opening books. (Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's "The Great Cholesterol Con", "The Modern Nutritional Disease: heart disease. stroke. type 2 diabetes, obesity and cancer by Ottoboni and Ottoboni, and "Trick and Treat by Barry Groves) They were a wealth of information about statins and their dark side that you never hear about. I found every one of my symptoms and all of my mother's listed as side effects of statins, even on low doses. The most scary thing is that these more subtle symptoms are rarely recognized by family physicians as having anything to do with statin use. There is even excellent evidence that having a cholesterol level that is pushed too low can greatly increase risk of stroke and mortality from a heart attack.

    Read his story and you will be shocked at how much resistance he met with, despite his own medical degree, as far as people believing him that his horrible experiences were the result of taking Lipitor. Now there are several books out that are lifting the veil of secrecy that the Phama industry has been hoping you would never learn, since these drugs generate Billions - yes that's right - Billions of dollars in pure profit.

    Dr. Graveline has become my hero.

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  • Summary: missjanie
  • Comment: Dr. Graveline tells it like it is. I had searched for a long while to find the truth about the Statins. The #of people suffering debilitating problems from these cholesterol lowering meds is quickly increasing. My mom-in-law is deteriorating rapidly. I hope that many will read this book.
    Thank you Amazon for letting me offer my opinion.


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