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Medical Forum / General / Cardiology / March 2008Red Yeast Rice Extract
I couldn't take any of the usual cholesterol lowering drugs because they didn't agree with me. My doctor recommended red yeast rice extract. I take 2 1200 mg capsules per day. After 6 months, my cholesterol went from 181 to 116. I also take fish oil. On Mar 6, 11:52 am, cheri.bartolo...@gmail.com wrote: > I couldn't take any of the usual cholesterol lowering drugs because > they didn't agree with me. My doctor recommended red yeast rice > extract. I take 2 1200 mg capsules per day. After 6 months, my > cholesterol went from 181 to 116. I also take fish oil. red yeast rice extract IS a statin (cholesterol lowering drug)--it contains Mevacolin K, same ingredient as in Mevacor, albeit a lower amount....actually, the amount of mevacolin in different RYR preparationsis mostly unknown because there is no standardardization of the product..... > I couldn't take any of the usual cholesterol lowering drugs because > they didn't agree with me. My doctor recommended red yeast rice > extract. I take 2 1200 mg capsules per day. After 6 months, my > cholesterol went from 181 to 116. I also take fish oil. Why would you want to lower you cholesterol? A total cholesterol between 180 and 200 is optimum. Below 160 and deaths from all causes start to increase very significantly.  SignaturePramesh Rutaji p297tongue6221@newsguy.com - remove tongue to reply |
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