A Look At Red Rice Yeast

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Red yeast rice Canada extract, a supplement that can help lower cholesterol and once was sold in the United States under the name "Cholestin". In 2001 the FDA won a long legal battle to remove Cholestin from the market on the grounds that its primary ingredient is lovastatin, which had been approved as a prescription drug before Cholestin was introduced. The FDA concluded that by marketing Cholestin, the manufacturer, Pharmanex, Inc., was selling an unapproved drug.

In fact, there are several natural sources of "statin" drugs from mushrooms and other fungi. Cholestin and its active components come from a strain of red yeast cultivated on rice that has been used for centuries in China as a natural food flavoring and coloring agent. It contains seven different statins, not just lovastatin. In my experience, the natural mixture of compounds is less toxic (to the liver and muscles) than isolated lovastatin.

Though Pharmanex no longer can sell Cholestin made from red rice yeast extract in the United States, it can market the supplement elsewhere in the world, including red yeast rice Canada ...
... /b>. If the red rice yeast supplement you're purchasing from your Canadian source is Cholestin and consists of red rice yeast, you should be getting a product that can safely help lower cholesterol.

To also help lower cholesterol regular exercise will help lower cholesterol and it will also take off any unwanted pounds you may be carrying around which will also lower cholesterol.

Some people would rather take all natural products instead of if prescription drugs which usually care some side effects. If you’re not sure about taking this or any other supplement you should speak to your health care provider or pharmacist about the supplement you are looking at as well as any other medications you are taking, over the counter and prescription drugs, this way you will know if the two cancel each other out or cause a reaction.

Where can you purchase red rice yeast? Online in the USA as it is not allowed to be sold in retail stores or pharmacies. Places like Amazon or some Canadian web site.