Red yeast rice in Canada for cholesterol

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have any experience with using red yeast rice for cholesterol? A

patient of my mom's doctor used it with great success but I thought my nd said

it was not available in Canada anymore? If anyone has any info on that or how

you lowered your cholesterol I would appreciate it!

Thanks,

Dianne

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dianne,

I used Red Yeast Rice for years and it works great. It is a statin still and

you still need to get your liver enzymes checked regularly. Also take CoQ10

with it. Statins deplete your CoQ10 so it is important to take it. I was on

lipitor and had joint aches and when I got on the red yeast rice I didn't have

symptoms.

Hope that helps.

laura

 

Dianne Phillips <phillipsd wrote:

Does anyone have any experience with using red yeast rice for

cholesterol? A patient of my mom's doctor used it with great success but I

thought my nd said it was not available in Canada anymore? If anyone has any

info on that or how you lowered your cholesterol I would appreciate it!

Thanks,

Dianne

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " Dianne Phillips "

<phillipsd wrote:

>

> Does anyone have any experience with using red yeast rice for

cholesterol? A patient of my mom's doctor used it with great success

but I thought my nd said it was not available in Canada anymore? If

anyone has any info on that or how you lowered your cholesterol I

would appreciate it!

> Thanks,

> Dianne

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have been using a red yeast rice product for building bone, not for

cholesterol lowering - but the " side effect " was indeed lower

cholesterol. I don't think all strains are good for bone building

though, if that's what you're interested in. Most on the market are

touted for lowering cholesterol.

 

Sorry you can't get it in Canada, it is a great product. Have you

tried eliminating some foods?

 

Carol

 

, " Dianne Phillips "

<phillipsd wrote:

>

> Does anyone have any experience with using red yeast rice for

cholesterol? A patient of my mom's doctor used it with great success

but I thought my nd said it was not available in Canada anymore? If

anyone has any info on that or how you lowered your cholesterol I

would appreciate it!

> Thanks,

> Dianne

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I use it and it works great. I live in the States and I buy it from Vitamin

Shoppe on line.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

The FDA and Health Canada has ordered several red yeast rice retailers

to stop selling their products because they were making pharmaceutical

claims about lowering cholesterol. Also, upon review of their

certificates of analysis, their products were deemed to contain

significant amounts of lovastatin - a drug for lowering lipids

(cholesterol).

 

So if you buy a quality red yeast rice, it won't have the lovastatin

in it, and you shouldn't have to worry about your liver. But you have

to do a lot of research to find a good quality one.

 

Carol

http://www.bluegreensolutions.com

 

, Laura Chollick

<lchollick wrote:

>

> Dianne,

> I used Red Yeast Rice for years and it works great. It is a

statin still and you still need to get your liver enzymes checked

regularly. Also take CoQ10 with it. Statins deplete your CoQ10 so

it is important to take it. I was on lipitor and had joint aches and

when I got on the red yeast rice I didn't have symptoms.

> Hope that helps.

> laura

[Guest guest]

My doc told me that Red yeast rice is a " natural Statin " so that it could affect

the liver too. Is that true???

Laura

 

Carol <carol wrote:

The FDA and Health Canada has ordered several red yeast rice retailers

to stop selling their products because they were making pharmaceutical

claims about lowering cholesterol. Also, upon review of their

certificates of analysis, their products were deemed to contain

significant amounts of lovastatin - a drug for lowering lipids

(cholesterol).

 

So if you buy a quality red yeast rice, it won't have the lovastatin

in it, and you shouldn't have to worry about your liver. But you have

to do a lot of research to find a good quality one.

 

Carol

http://www.bluegreensolutions.com

 

, Laura Chollick

<lchollick wrote:

>

> Dianne,

> I used Red Yeast Rice for years and it works great. It is a

statin still and you still need to get your liver enzymes checked

regularly. Also take CoQ10 with it. Statins deplete your CoQ10 so

it is important to take it. I was on lipitor and had joint aches and

when I got on the red yeast rice I didn't have symptoms.

> Hope that helps.

> laura

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Well, maybe yes, maybe no. He may have it mixed up with the products

that were recalled that had the added drug lovastatin.

 

Red yeast rice is a fermentation by-product of cooked non-glutinous

rice on which red yeast has been grown. The active constituents in red

yeast rice are: rice starch, protein, fiber, sterols, and fatty acids,

monacolin K, dihydromonacolin, and monacolin I to VI.

 

Statin drugs are a type of monacolin, not the other way around.

 

(At least I think that's right)

 

Carol

http://www.bluegreensolutios.com

 

, Laura Chollick

<lchollick wrote:

>

> My doc told me that Red yeast rice is a " natural Statin " so that it

could affect the liver too. Is that true???

> Laura