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Statins Prevent Vitamin D Formation, Causing Muscle Pain & Worse

June 23, 2012 by admin in Pharmaceuticals with 1 Comment

The chutzpah of pharmaceutical science and medical practice in presuming to control the body’s processes, without any consideration for adverse effects that can readily be predicted—such as known disorders related to inadequate Vitamin D and CoQ10—needs to come to an end.

by Heidi Stevenson

Inadequate Vitamin D causes muscle pain. The purpose of statin drugs is to lower cholesterol. Is there a connection between the muscle pain that results from statins and inadequate Vitamin D?

There can, in fact, be little doubt. The connection is obvious if you know one fact: Cholesterol is required to make Vitamin D. Therefore, anyone taking statins can be expected to have a deficiency in it.

Let’s take a look at the primary conditions associated with inadequate Vitamin D and adverse effects of statin drugs:

Inadequate Vitamin D	Statins
Myopathy (muscle pain)	Myopathy (muscle pain)
Osteomalacia (bone softness)	Osteomalacia (bone softness)
Peripheral neuropathy	Peripheral neuropathy
Diabetes	Diabetes
	Increases some cancers

It isn’t hard to see that there’s a connection between serious conditions known to be caused by both inadequate Vitamin D and statins. It shouldn’t be surprising, though. The purpose behind statins is to lower cholesterol. Unfortunately, medical researchers and doctors tend to wear blinders. They focus only on a single item known to be associated with a condition. They believe that cholesterol causes heart disease—not because it’s ever been proven to be true. They have a theory, and they have decided that their theory must be correct, in spite of a lack of evidence supporting it.

The theory says that cholesterol causes heart disease by getting stuck and collecting on the linings of blood vessels to form hard plaques. This limits blood flow, thus increasing blood pressure, which is believed to be another cause of heart disease. Eventually, bits of the plaques break off and travel to an artery in the heart, causing the blood supply in a heart artery to be cut off, resulting in a heart attack. (It’s also believed to be the reason for many strokes, with the only difference being that the plaque travels to the brain and blocks an artery there.)

Statins function by inhibiting an enzyme, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor. This enzyme is critical for the manufacture of cholesterol in the liver. Cholesterol, in spite of modern medicine’s treating it like a criminal, is a critical substance, required for a wide range of body functions. One of them is the manufacture of Vitamin D. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that some of the conditions associated with statins are the same as those associated with inadequate Vitamin D.

Modern medicine and its bought-and-paid-for tame science have, yet again, made the fundamental error of assuming that something associated with a disease is caused by it. To have adequate Vitamin D, we must have adequate cholesterol. Medical science presumes to be the arbiter of how much cholesterol is too much, never considering that the body manufactures more for a reason, with the exception of genetic hypercholesterolemia, which is a birth defect.

Presuming that there is an excess of cholesterol and then giving a drug to force its level down is playing with fire. Willingly wearing blinders, medical science and doctors focus on one narrow marker, so the whole story is missed, even when much of the information is already available. By preventing the production of cholesterol, Vitamin D production is also prevented. By the way, the enzyme needed to produce cholesterol is also required to produce CoQ10, another critical substance, which may be part of the reason statins are associated with diabetes.

Does it make sense to supplement with Vitamin D and CoQ10 when taking statins, as is being asked in some medical circles? Perhaps, but wouldn’t it be better to ask medical science to search for the real causes of diseases and stop trying to suppress symptoms, which invariably end up causing at least as much, if not more, harm than the diseases they’re trying to prevent?

We need to respect the fact that the body isn’t arbitrary in producing more cholesterol in some people. The chutzpah of pharmaceutical science and medical practice in presuming to control the body’s processes, without any consideration for adverse effects that can readily be predicted—such as known disorders related to inadequate Vitamin D and CoQ10—needs to come to an end.

Photo (before Statins words added) is from Morgue File.