New Book: "Statin Drugs Side Effects and The Misguided War on Cholesterol"
Former NASA astronaut and retired family doctor, Duane "Doc" Graveline was a guest author on The Debra Ray Show. In 1999, in a routine physical by NASA flight surgeons, he was told to take 10 mgs of Lipitor daily. Six weeks later, his wife noticed him walking aimlessly about the yard. He didn't who she was and didn't recognize his home. She drove him to the family doctor who passed him on to a neurologist. He recovered six hours later in the neurologist's office. When he suggested to the neurologist that Lipitor might be the cause, he said "Lipitor doesn't do that." He quit taking Lipitor on his own. In 2000, in in his annual physical by NASA flight surgeons, he was told to try Lipitor again with half the last dose, 5 mgs. Six weeks later, for 12 hours, he thought he was a 13 year old high school student. He knew every kid in his class, all his books, his teachers, & assignments. When they told him he was married with children, he laughed. When they told him he was a family doctor, he couldn't believe it. Again, he quit taking Lipitor on his own. He searched the medical & scientific literature for an explanation. He said that inflammation is what causes heart attacks. Cholesterol does appear in plaque, but it is only an innocent bystander. Statin drugs are great at reducing inflammation, but have many risks. The use of cholesterol to monitor statin dosing is erroneous. When he submitted his story to the People's Pharmacy column, he found out that it was a very prevalent condition. Over 1,000 cases of statin associated transient global amnesia have been reported & most are published in the medical literature. On his website, he has over 5,400 case reports, from all over the United States, of extreme aggressiveness.
Former astronaut/family doctor Duane "Doc" Graveline's website
In his book, he explains the critical importance of cholesterol for proper brain function & memory and why statin drugs damage your muscles, nerves, heart, & personality. Statin drug side effects mentioned by Dr. Graveline were:
- chronic aches & pains
- numbness
- weakness
- confusion
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- shortness of breath
- congestive heart failure
- extreme aggressiveness
- irritability
- hostility
- extreme depression
- suicides
posted by Lew at 10:55 AM
2 Comments:
Perhaps you have seen the Direct-to-Consumer TV and print advertisements with Robert Jarvik, the inventor of the Jarvik Heart, speaking on behalf of the Pfizer’s anti-cholesterol drug, Lipitor.
Perhaps Jarvik is not the best choice for the Lipitor campaign which has had mixed reviews. Instead of Jarvik, a more convincing yet unlikely spokesman would be the popular Duane Graveline MD MPH, a former NASA astronaut, and author who was started on Lipitor during an annual astronaut physical at the Johnson Space Center, and 6 weeks later had an episode of transient global amnesia, a sudden form of total memory loss described in his book, Lipitor Thief of Memory.
Two more unlikely spokesmen for the Lipitor ad campaign include Mary Enig and Uffe Ravnskov.
Should either one be selected as Lipitor spokesman, I myself would run down to the corner drug store to buy up the drug. It seems unlikey that even Pfizer’s deep pockets could ever induce them to recant their opposing position on the cholesterol theory of heart disease.
Mary G. Enig writes, ”hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a problem that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood.
Uffe Ravnskov MD PhD is spokesman for Thincs, The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics, and author of “The Cholesterol Myths, Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease”. His controversial ideas have angered loyal cholesterol theory supporters in Finland who demonstrated by burning his book on live television.
For more discussion on this, see my newsletter: Lipitor and The Dracula of Modern Technology
Jeffrey Dach MD
The cholesterol study was hugely sponsored by drug companies so people would keep buying their drugs.
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