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Tomato pill is the latest 'super pill'

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Just been reading all the info about this pill, having found that Q10 actually raised my blood pressure I'm going to give it a go, I refuse to be put on statins so hope this will work.

Anyone tried it?

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And yet another drug used with statins withdrawn - dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Throid

The medicine is called Tredaptive in Europe.

From the product's Patient Information Leaflet:

The active substances are nicotinic acid and laropiprant. Each tablet contains 1,000 mg nicotinic acid and 20 mg laropiprant.

medicines.org.uk/EMC/search...

Somewhat ironic that nicotinic acid is one form of vitamin B3. And the laropiprant seems to be there to reduce the commonly-associated facial flushing.

And it is not clear whether taking Tredaptive without taking statins has a different impact.

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to helvella

MHRA has issued its recall of this product:

mhra.gov.uk/Publications/Sa...

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