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Red Yeast Rice has been used in China and other parts of Asia for centuries. It’s used for medicine, to help with circulation, but it’s also used for food. It’s a staple that they use to make rice wine and to preserve flavor and color in fish and meats. They make Red Yeast Rice by fermenting a type of yeast called Monascus purpureus over red rice.
What Are Statins?
What they do is they create something that was the original statin, which is a natural product. Statins work by inhibiting the formation of cholesterol in your liver. The original statin was called lovastatin and they got that from looking at Red Yeast Rice.
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Red Yeast Rice has ingredients in it called monacolins. These, in general, lower cholesterol, but there’s one that’s significantly stronger, and that’s what they usually make sure that you have plenty of in supplements that are sold in stores. It’s a good product for people who can’t tolerate statin drugs. It may be an alternative. A study from the University of Kansas and Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon published in the American Journal of Medicine said that Red Yeast Rice, which is available in stores, is known to reduce your cholesterol and it’s an alternative for people who cannot tolerate statins. Statins cause myalgia, or pain and inflammation in the muscles. It’s actually a very common reaction to statins if they’re used at a higher dosage.†
So, here’s the issue. Doctors put their patients on statins and they want to push their cholesterol down to a certain level. The patients are generally doing fine on that initial dosage of the statin. But, quite frequently, it’s not a favorable outcome and the doctor wants to push the cholesterol even further down, especially in people who have diabetes or who have suffered a heart attack. So, they increase the dosage, and that’s when you really start to run into problems.†
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Support for Cholesterol Levels
According to the University of Kansas and Oregon Health and Science University, the ingredient in the Red Yeast Rice that blocks the manufacturing of cholesterol is called monacolin K, but there’s like nine or ten of these constituents. Every one of them lowers cholesterol, it’s just that monacolin K is the strongest out of all of those. There’s research showing that if you use all of those constituents together, like they would naturally be found in Red Yeast Rice, you don’t need to go to a very high dosage to get a significant reduction in bad cholesterol.†
Here’s a very recent study out of Italy that was published in the Methodist Debakey Cardiovascular Journal. A number of academic research institutions throughout Italy looked at Red Yeast Rice and found that it is really only effective for cholesterol if you have sufficient monacolin K. They said you should take up to 10mg a day. The researchers also said that it lowers total cholesterol and bad cholesterol within the first six to eight weeks.†
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We’ve all heard the impact that high cholesterol can have on our overall health. Well over 30% of the U.S. population has high cholesterol. But did you know that plant sterols should be an essential part of your cholesterol-targeting arsenal?
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There are several major risk factors for heart disease and heart attacks, and it is not just cholesterol. Cholesterol is part of the plaques inside of your heart that contributes to coronary heart disease, which has been known for over 175 years. In the 1980s, they introduced statin drugs to lower cholesterol and it was very successful. However, not everyone can take a statin, as some individuals can experience muscle pain, fatigue and a drop in endurance/stamina.
Cholesterol Background
When you look at your cholesterol figure, it is usually made out of three components. Adding these numbers up provides you with your total cholesterol number.
Not all cholesterol is bad cholesterol. You need is needed for a variety of things in the body:
But when your cholesterol is too high and is being used in the body, it becomes a cholesterol relevant. That makes it easily damaged, or oxidized. Once this happens, cholesterol can become pro-inflammatory. In other words, it can cause inflammation. This occurs in the arteries in your heart and contributes to hardening of the arteries and coronary heart disease (the biggest killer in America).
What are Sterols?
Sterols have been shown to lower your cholesterol in numerous studies. Sterols are a supplement that come from plants. They look like cholesterol, but they do not act like cholesterol. When you take them before a meal, they block the absorption of cholesterol and they do not block the absorption of other good fats, including Vitamin D, Lyopene and Lutein. This makes your bad cholesterol go down very quickly. New data shows that sterols have many more benefits for heart health. Sterols work so well that major academic institutions are behind it. There is even an FDA claim for it!†
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