One Red Yeast Rice pill is the approximate equivalent of a 10 mg dosage
of Lovastatin (Mevacor®, a drug produced by Merck & Co., Inc).

Lovastatin is simply the synthetic form of the active ingredient in Red
Yeast Rice extract.  All statins have the nasty side effect of
weakening your muscles and causing aches and pains.  As old people are
the ones who take this stuff, they usually confuse this side effect as
just a part of old age.  The CoQ10 is there to counter this side
effect.  If you were to complain about muscle weakness to your
physician, he would say that you should be taken off the drug.

This red yeast rice extract is just as effective at damaging your liver
as Mevacor, or any other form of statin, is.  Hence, you should get
your liver periodically tested.

To recap, you are taking about the equivalent of a minimum dosage of a
statin drug that a physician would prescribe in order to lower
cholesterol. The only way to tell how effective one capsule a day of
red yeast exact is for you is to get the standard blood test for
cholesterol that breaks it down by HDL and LDL levels after fasting for
12 hours.  A test that gives only the TC count does not help very much.

The dietary solution is to add more fiber to your diet in the form of
whole-grains. And, especially old fashion oatmeal.
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/food/whole-grains.html
--
John Gohde,
    Achieving good Nutrition is an Art, NOT a Science!

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