policosonol & red yeast rice with statin drugs?

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Hi all.

We have been using for a year now Monascus, which is made of red yeast rice, for

cholesterol in patients with high level of this, with great success. The

patients also have chance their commercial statin for monaschus with great

improvement of cholesterol.

Is there a difference between monaschus and the red yeast rice? It is not the

same product?

Greetings from Brazil,

Jean

 

 

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--- On Sat, 11/22/08, Karen Adams <kradams1 wrote:

Karen Adams <kradams1

Re: Re: ok to take policosonol & red yeast rice with statin

drugs?

Chinese Medicine

Saturday, November 22, 2008, 9:50 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have another question: can someone explain cholesterol in terms of

 

CM? In those terms, when does it become an issue - if it does?

 

Thanks

 

Karen

 

 

 

Joy Keller wrote:

 

 

 

> If Red Yeast Rice still contains the active statin component, then yes, I

 

> would say it is cc to use with pts currently on prescription statins.

 

>

 

> However, wasn't it somewhere around 5 years ago that the FDA pulled

 

> all the

 

> Red Yeast Rice off the shelves because of this reason?

 

>

 

> I know that Red Yeast Rice has been back on the shelves for the past

 

> year or

 

> so, but my understanding is that these products were allowed back because

 

> they no longer contain the statin component... .basically rendering it

 

> useless for that purpose.

 

>

 

> Has anyone been able to get information on this directly from the

 

> manufacturers? I have done, from time to time, various internet

 

> searches and

 

> haven't been able to find a definitive answer. For this reason, I no

 

> longer

 

> use RYR because I can't be sure it still has the beneficial properties

 

> needed to recommend its use...Can anyone corroborate or clarify this?

 

>

 

> As for the policosanol - there were some studies that started coming out

 

> about 3 years ago indicating no specific connection between

 

> policosanol and

 

> cholesterol levels. They were compelling enough to get me to reconsider

 

> policosanol' s role in my clinic for that purpose. Has anyone seen clinical

 

> (i.e., measurable) changes in their patient's cholesterol using

 

> policosanol

 

> alone?

 

>

 

> J

 

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