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Garlic & Red Yeast Rice: Manage Your Blood Lipids W/Out Statins - 12+1 Natural Alternatives Reviewed (Part I)

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Red yeast rice is the "+1" in this SuppVersity Mini-Series  because it is actually a "statin". Similar effects, similar side effects and all that (probably) because of the similar structure of its lipid lowering active ingredient(s). "Twelve + 1"? I know that sounds odd, but I have my reason to single one of the natural alternatives, two scientists from the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand list in their 2016 review "A Review of the Efficacy, Safety, and Clinical Implications of Naturally Derived Dietary Supplements for Dyslipidemia", right from the start: red yeast rice (RYR). While garlic, which will also be discussed in today's first installment of what is going to become a mini-series, also has the ability to decrease your HMG-CoA reductase activity, only RYR does that at a similar potency as statins do; which is why its use entails the risk of similar side effects as they have been reported for regular statin drugs Whether RYR i...
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Three Servings of Grapefruit /Day Have No Effect on Weight Loss, But Increase Triglycerides and Make a Potentially Deadly Cocktail With A Whole Host of Prescription Meds!

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Image 1: Grapefruit does not help with weight loss and, as it turns out, is not even healthy. On the contrary, in conjunction with your favorite statin it is even potentially deadly. Do you remember the "grapefruit diet" ( WebMD )? No? Well, then you are probably male and have always been satisfied with your weight. Otherwise, you would probably have heard how a "magical ingredient" in the subtropical citrus fruit is going kill all those unaesthetic adypocytes, which have made themselves at home on your hips and buttocks, in no time... What do you say? Bullsh*t? Well, I guess you have been reading to much of my stuff already, after all this purported short-cut to six-pack abs is also known as the Hollywood Diet and that alone will have people fall for it by the dozen... I mean, if Brooke Shields and Kylie Minogue got in shape with it, it must be working, right? The myth and the truth about grapefruits I know that you would never be so stupid to start eatin...
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Eat Whole Eggs All Day and Throw Your Statins Away? 375x Increased Dietary Cholesterol Intake From Eggs Reduces Visceral Fat & Promotes Healthy Cholesterol Metabolism

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Image 1: You better make sure you don't miss out on these delicious heart- and brain-healthy cholesterol bombs. Most of you will probably be familiar with the good old saying " An apple a day, keeps the doctor away! ", right? And if you are an otherwise healthy individual the micronutrients from the apple will probably really help you maintain this status. But what if the doctor was already there to put you on the healthy low fat diet, the negative health consequences of which I have addressed in yesterday's blogpost ? In that case, whole eggs probably provide a more promising escape route from that low-fat, high-carb trap - at least this is what the the results of a soon to be published study from the Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China would suggest ( Yang. 2012 ). Surprising(?) -9% belly-fat reduction on whole egg diet In their 60 to 90 day experiment, the Chinese researchers put a group of 8-week old Sprague-Dawley rats (n=18 for each group...
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SAD - Human Study Shows: Three Days on "High Fat" Standard American Diet Produce Heart Healthier LDL Particle Profile Than NCEP-Approved Low Fat Diet

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Image 1: SAD or just mad? It does in fact look like you better stick to Royal TS , French fries & co instead of following a low fat diet according to the guidelines of the National Cholesterol Education Program if you care about your heart health. In view of the fact that millions of lives depend on it (literally, not just figuratively!) it is actually quite surprising, some would probably say "scandalous" that the experimental evidence (and I am talking about controlled experiments on real , healthy human beings, not about epidemiological and thusly statistical) for the purported beneficial effects of a non-calorically restricted "healthy low fat diet" in the absence of additional exercise interventions is... scarce, to say the least. I was thusly positively surprised, when I hit on a study from a group of researchers from the Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods at the Laval University and the Lipid Research Center at the CHUL Research Cent...
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Creatine Prevents Statin Induced Myopathy

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In the Observations section of the November issue of Annals of Internal Medicine Shewman & Craig ( Shewman. 2010 ) report beneficial effects of creatine supplementation in patients on statin drugs: Myopathy scores were significantly higher after the statin-only treatment phase than at baseline but did not differ from baseline after the other treatment phases. Creatine loading plus maintenance creatine therapy prevented myopathy symptoms in 8 of 10 patients receiving statins . After these 8 patients stopped maintenance creatine therapy and developed myopathy symptoms while receiving statins alone, reloading creatine decreased symptoms to baseline levels. Also, increasing the creatine dosage from maintenance to loading diminished myopathy symptoms to baseline levels in 1 patient who developed symptoms 6 days after a statin was added to maintenance creatine therapy. No significant differences in vital signs or laboratory test results were observed. So, in case you really think you ...
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