Book Review: The Statin Damage Crisis

Almost daily I receive questions regarding the use of statin medications to lower cholesterol. It is important to realize that statin medications are not harmless and without side effects. One of the best books describing the potential problems associated with the use of statin medications is The Statin Damage Crisis by Duane Graveline, M.D. Dr. Graveline experinceed both memory loss and muscle degeneration after the use of Lipitor.      The following are a couple of brief quotes from the book by Graveline:      "Statin drugs cause effects on our mitochondria (the part of the cell which produces energy) identical to those that accumulate with age. One might say that one side effect of statin therapy is premature aging."      "First I learned about statin drug inhibition of glial cell cholesterol, so vital for memory. Then...I learned about the inevitable mevalonate blockade by statins with resulting neuropathies, myopathies and chronic muscular degeneration."      "Many statin victims say that abruptly, almost in the blink of an eye, they have become old people." References: Graveline, Duane, The Statin Damage Crisis, First Edition, 2009, p.140. http://www.spacedoc.com/