Statins and Vitamin D Deficiency - Another Blow

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Increasing the probability of congestive failure due to CQ10 deficiency

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/12/13/statin_drugs_coenzyme_q10_deple\

tion

..htm was not enough, here is more bad news...

 

Vitamin D deficiency

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/12/15/re_lack_of_vitamin_d_the_real_r\

eason_flu_hits_in_winter.htm states will increase your

risk of prostate and breast cancer

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/12/06/statin_drugs_breast_cancer.htm

and auto immune diseases

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/08/11/statins_and_our_immune_system.h\

tm like MS

and rheumatoid arthritis. Not to mention all the neurological diseases due

to low levels of cholesterol in the brain!

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/08/17/faq_about_cholesterol_heart_dis\

ease.htm This is in line with

all the comments on the various statin posts.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/03/28/frequently_asked_questions_abou\

t_statins.htm Yet the public at

large is oblivious to the dangers from this class of drugs - what's worse is

that statins are one of the biggest cash cows for the pharma Mafia and as such

will continue to be promoted by industry shills

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/11/01/drumming_up_more_business.htm

.. Who of course along with

their benefactors will be rubbing their hands all the way to the bank. Not to

mention the guaranteed extra revenue from the generation of all the

additionally created diseases!

 

For a comprehensive link summary see:Bad News About Statin Drugs

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/11/07/bad_news_about_statin_drugs.htm

 

Chris Gupta http://tinyurl.com/ylt4pk

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Statins and Vitamin D Deficiency

 

In my book, Statin Drugs Side Effects

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/06/28/statin_drugs_side_effects.htm

and the misguided war on

cholesterol, and on this website I have discussed the vital role of cholesterol

in the

human body. Our most important hormones depend upon adequate reserves of

cholesterol for their production and nowhere is this more important than as the

precursor substance for the synthesis of Vitamin D, know also as calcitrol.

 

Researchers in this field are sufficiently concerned from the results of

their studies to pronounce that we are in the midst of an epidemic of vitamin D

deficiency of immense proportion. Study after study of nursing home populations,

of nursing mothers, of healthy male and female volunteers and of various

children’s groups have consistently documented how relatively rare it is to

have

optimal levels of Vitamin D.

 

Some authorities support more liberal dietary supplementation of Vitamin D in

our foodstuff. Others are urging that practical new approaches for vitamin D

repletion in our country are urgently needed. This high prevalence of vitamin

D deficiency, even in those taking multivitamins, indicates that a critical

review of vitamin D needs is a major priority.

 

A vitamin D precursor is synthesized in the skin from cholesterol in response

to absorbing UVB rays. It then gets converted in the liver to an intermediate

form. In the kidneys it joins with an important enzyme for conversion into

its active hormonal form.

 

Many factors potentially interfere with the UVB conversion. People having

darker skins are much more likely to have vitamin D deficiency. The aged skin of

the elderly impairs cholesterol conversion as does the presence of obesity.

Our present day emphasis on protecting our skin from the sun, using sun-screens

and blockers, also cuts down on the ability of UVB to convert cholesterol to

vitamin D. Last but not least, one needs UVB exposure.

 

Without any sun exposure you need about 4,000 units of vitamin D a day. In

the absence of other supplements you would need 40 glasses of milk or ten

multi-vitamins capsules daily to supply your vitamin D needs. Most of us make

about

20,000 units of vitamin D after 20 minutes of summer sun due to UVB conversion

of cholesterol. Numerous studies document that the majority of our society

falls short of meeting either their dietary of UVB conversion needs for vitamin

D.

 

Now consider the impact of statin drugs on a society already overburdened

with an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. Cholesterol must be available in our

bodies in amounts sufficient to allow UVB conversion to vitamin D. We are all

genetically blessed with a “natural level†of cholesterol. What is natural

for

one person may be completely inadequate for another. Into this heterogenous

pool we dump statins indiscriminately in a misguided attempt to bring

everyone’s

natural level of cholesterol down to some artificially low level. Need I add

that eight of the nine people making the 2004 cholesterol guidelines were

subsidized one way or another by the statin drug manufacturer?

 

I cannot think of anything more likely to aggravate our already immense,

vitamin D deficient state. There is little doubt that the availability of

statins

drugs these past two decades has made a major contribution to this problem.

 

Duane Graveline MD MPH

My book, " Statin Drugs SideEffects "

 

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/06/28/statin_drugs_side_effects.htm ,

is now available from my website ( www.spacedoc.net )

Duane Graveline MD MPH

4414 Cormorant Lane

Merritt Island FL 32953

321-453-7297

 

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