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05/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Doc Graveline & LIPITOR, THIEF OF MEMORY"

Doc Graveline and LIPITOR, THIEF OF MEMORY Revisit ... note section "A great many doctors and patients are concerned that statin drug associated myositis and rhabdomyolysis with its muscle cell breakdown and release of myoglobin causing secondary blockage of kidney tubules may be based on this loss of membrane integrity" and related statement "Doctor Frank Pfrieger, leader of this research group which also included the National Center for Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France explained that the brain cannot tap the cholesterol supply in the blood since the lipoproteins that mediate the transport of cholesterol, including both LDL and HDL, are too large to pass the blood-brain barrier. The brain has to depend upon its own cholesterol synthesis which the glial cells provide"