Has anyone here successfully lowered their cholesterol by using red yest rice? What is a good brand?
A nice scientific medical summary of this product appeared in my emailbox last week:
Red Yeast Rice – Treatment Option for Patients Who Can’t Tolerate Statins?
Red yeast rice lowers LDL cholesterol in patients who cannot tolerate statins, reports Annals of Internal Medicine.
Some 60 patients who had discontinued statins owing to myalgia were randomized to receive red yeast rice supplements (1800 mg twice daily) or placebo for 24 weeks. (Red yeast rice contains naturally occurring lovastatin.) All patients also participated in a 12-week lifestyle change program focused on nutrition, exercise, and relaxation techniques.
Mean LDL cholesterol levels at 12 and 24 weeks fell by 27% and 21% respectively, with red yeast rice, and by 6% and 9%, respectively, with placebo. The differences between groups were statistically significant. The supplement appeared safe in terms of new-onset muscle pain, as well as creatinine phosphokinase and liver enzyme levels.
The authors acknowledge the study’s limitations, including the small sample size and short duration. Still, they conclude that their intervention “may provide a therapeutic lipid-lowering option for the large cohort of patients” with statin-associated myalgia.
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I’m glad someone started this thread, what I found in my research is there are SO many brands out there and some do absolutely nothing. Since the industry isn’t regulated you have to find a brand that is similar to the kind used in the survey. I haven’t located any such information yet.
Of course eveyone’s claiming is the kind that works, but I also see many medical sites saying the brands are so different, it’d be hard to get one like the kind used in the survey