In 1993, British researchers found that the greater the dosage of a statin drug, the lower the CoQ10 level.
In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that just 20 mgs of Simvastin® a day lowered CoQ10 levels by 22%!
Other research shows taking statin drugs can lower your CoQ10 level by as much as 40%!
And as you've read, without enough CoQ10 your heart will suffer, sputter and could even fail!
So why hasn't this warning made headline news?
The answer: GREED! More than 39 million Americans take statin drugs and Lipitor® is the top selling pharmaceutical in the world, topping $12 billion in sales annually. So you're certainly not going to hear about any statin drug warnings from the big drug makers.
"Statins have killed and injured more people than the government has acknowledged."
—USA Today, 8/20/01
"Statin-induced depletion of CoQ10 must be considered in the... epidemic of heart failure."
—Peter Langsjoen, M.D.
If you're taking any statin drug, you must also take 100 to 200 mg a day of CoQ10 to replenish your body's CoQ10 level and protect your heart.
Though many natural foods contain CoQ10, one may consider to supplement.
1 comments:
The Framingham study evidence underlying the “lipid hypothesis” was never strong to start with. Since then a massive lipid lowering campaign has shown no effect on heart disease rates. While an elegant and seemingly intuitive hypothesis, more and more openly people are rightly questioning the wisdom of the cholesterol lowering campaign.
Cholesterol is an essential component of every cell membrane and important for myriad physiologic functions. When Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD looked at the medical literature he found something quite surprising had been documented there. On average people with higher cholesterol live longer.
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html
The side effects of statins are myriad, rhabdomyolysis, (muscle injury), liver damage, in Crestor's case kidney damage. Dr Duane Graveline an MD and former NASA astronaut has also compiled extensive data on a more rare statin side effect, global transient amnesia, which afflicted him and many others, he has written a book on it, "Lipitor thief of memory". http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/11/statins-and-global-transient-amnesia.html
Don't forget co-enzyme Q depletion. All this while the "lipid hypothesis" is falling like a house of cards as decades of intensive lipid lowering efforts have done nothing to improve heart disease rates.
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