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Spacedoc Newsletter July 9, 2011

Statins and Vitamin D Deficiency

by Duane Graveline, MD, MPH

Only in the past two years have we been able to glimpse at the true role of vitamin D in overall health. It is far more than just maintaining normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus and optimizing skeletal health.

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.

I cannot think of anything more likely to aggravate our already immense, vitamin D deficient state. But something strange has happened. Now that we have measured vitamin D levels more extensively we have learned a new truth. Lowering cholesterol does not necessarily lower vitamin D.

As a matter of fact, recent studies make it all but certain that statins appear to raise vitamin D levels almost as if each statin user was given 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 at the same time.

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Statins and Vitamin D Deficiency

Duane Graveline MD MPH

Former USAF Flight Surgeon

Former NASA AstronautRetired Family Doctor

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