Probiotic, Red Yeast Rice Extract Combo May Cut Cholesterol

[weee]

Interesting......

medscape.com/viewarticle/87...

[sandybrown]

Human body produces 80% cholesterol, 20 % from food intake. we need to find out why? high cholesterol is produced by human body.

[DakCB-UK in reply to sandybrown]

Doesn't the % fluctuate with food intake? So more available from food means the body reduces production - that's how the stanols/sterols work, by looking similar enough to dietary cholesterol that the body reduces production in error.

[DakCB-UK]

Red Yeast Rice is basically an unrefined natural HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor = it works similar to a statin. B longum BB536 seems to be a natural absorption inhibitor = it works similar to ezetimibe. Statins and ezetimibe have been used in combination for years, so why is it interesting that their natural analogues produce a similar effect?