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Probiotic, Red Yeast Rice Extract Combo May Cut Cholesterol

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Interesting......

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

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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.

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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?

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