RED YEAST RICE – LOWERS CHOLESTEROL WITHOUT THE SIDE EFFECTS

This is not a new discovery, traditional Chinese Medics have been using Red Yeast Rice for centuries for heart problems.
In Australia and America, being the obsessed with “what the Dr tells us” means we are victims to the big Pharmaceutical industry’s clutches on General Practitioners. And the most beneficial, side-effect free, natural solutions to the modern list of ailments and conditions are not exactly good for the economy.

In a 2009 randomised controlled trial conducted by doctors at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Flourtown, Pennsylvania. David Becker, MD, and his research team studied 62 patients whose super high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol put them at risk for heart attack or stroke.
All patients had tried the statin drugs however each one of them reported side effects, including: muscle pain, weakness and over active liver enzymes and had to stop taking them.

Half of the research subjects were given 1,800 mg of red yeast rice twice a day for 24 weeks and the other half took inactive placebo pills. After the first 12 weeks, the study participants taking red yeast rice showed a significant improvement in their levels of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol. In fact, on average their cholesterol dropped an amazing 43 points. The placebo group had an LDL drop of only 11 points. After 24 weeks, there was a 35 point drop in "bad" cholesterol levels in the red yeast rice group. The researchers think this second cholesterol measurement showed less of a decrease than the earlier tests simply because some of the study participants may have stopped taking their supplements.

One of the best things about Red Yeast Rice is that it only lowers the bad LDL cholesterol and keeps the HDL – healthy cholesterol balanced which is necessary for many reactions in the body to take place.

According to the NIH web site, there has been an ongoing and protracted legal and industrial dispute about whether red yeast rice is a drug or a dietary supplement involving the manufacturers of red yeast supplements, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the pharmaceutical industry -- specifically Big Pharma producers of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor prescription drugs, the official name for statins. So if Red Yeast Rice actually didn’t lower cholesterol, why would Big Pharma even feel threatened by it?

Reference:

Red Yeast Rice for Dyslipidemia in Statin-Intolerant Patients: A Randomized Trial, Becker et al. Annals of Internal Medicine.2009; 150: 830-839

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