A Sugar Can Melt Away Cholesterol (Snort Febreze)

Science News Magazine ^ | 5-18-2016 | S, Zimmer - Tina Hesman Saey

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Tina Hesman Saey
May 16, 2016

A sugar that freshens air in rooms may also clean cholesterol out of hardened arteries.

The sugar, cyclodextrin, removed cholesterol that had built up in the arteries of mice fed a high-fat diet, researchers report April 6 in Science Translational Medicine. The sugar enhances a natural cholesterol-removal process and persuades immune cells to soothe inflammation instead of provoking it, say immunologist Eicke Latz and colleagues.

Cyclodextrin, more formally known as 2-hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin, is the active ingredient in the air freshener Febreze. It is also used in a wide variety of drugs; it helps make hormones, antifungal chemicals, steroids and other compounds soluble. If the new results hold up in human studies, the sugar may also one day be used to liquefy cholesterol that clogs arteries.

Other researchers say the approach is promising, but must be tested in clinical trials. The sweet molecule is generally considered safe, but injecting it may raise the risk of liver damage or hearing loss, says Elena Aikawa, a vascular biologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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[stockpirate]

Bump

[Celtic Conservative]

Snort febreze? I have 4 cats, I already kind of do.

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[Red Badger]

but injecting it may raise the risk of liver damage or hearing loss,

What?.............

[RegulatorCountry]

Well, I've gone deaf and my liver's shot, but my cholesterol's perfect!

[tired&retired]

Bump for later

[henkster]

As a side effect, will it make your farts not stink?

[Celtic Conservative]

THEY SAID......

LOL!

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[rdl6989]

Liver failure or clogged arteries...

[goodwithagun]

If you eat a low carb, high fat diet you don’t have to worry about your arteries. Besides, isn’t it more fun to damage your liver the good old fashioned way?

[bigtoona]

Or you can eat a natural high fat low carb diet, reverse the damage and also lose weight and improve your overall health and well being.

[bigtoona]

Great minds think alike

[Yaelle]

“Generally considered safe” = RUN FROM IT.

Aspartame, PEG, etc are all generally considered safe. Poisons.

[goodwithagun]

Lol!

[reed13k]

I didn’t see in the article where they stated if it was naturally occuring and if so which foods might have it

[reed13k]

Ah found this: ‘Cyclodextrins are oligosaccharides obtained by enzymatic means from starch-containing raw materials such as corn or potatoes.’ Some of the other web pages indicate the starch needs to be heated to allow the enzymatic process to occur.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So now people will be “huffing” (remember that term?) Freebreze?

[pburgh01]

Ok as someone who has read countless books and adopted many diets I settled on a Paleo/Primal way of living. I eat tons of fresh fruits and veggies, lots of fats and all kids of meats, including organ meats like heart and liver. Granted all the produce is organic and my meats are GMO and pasture raised. I cannot tell you how good I feel and lost weight, my hair became thicker and my labs are better than a 25 year old...except.......LDL Cholesterol. But even this I am not worried. Total cholesterol or your LDL ratio is not all that useful in light of current science. LDL or I think what this POISON is said to remove is based not of the same particles and particle sizes. The small LDL particles are the real bastards when it comes to causing plaques in your arteries and causing deadly inflammation and coronary disease. The big fluffy LDL is GOOD cholesterol also, it feeds every cell in your body.

Dietary cholesterol has been proven by studies done by the American Heart Association and the NIH to not in anyway correlate with heart disease. What will give you a heart attack is eating lots of starches, sugars, and and overabundance of carbohydrates. It causes a cascade of insulin and then insulin resistance and deadly inflammation. Epidemiological studies aside(What vegans love to promote) there is not proof a diet high I monosaturated fats cause clogged arteries, nor does total cholesterol. Study the science and you decide, or keep eating feces fed chicken breasts, whole wheat bread and sugar free muffins and die in your 60's. Your grandmother had it right when she was eating farm fresh free range eggs, uncured bacon and had real butter and whole fat dairy.

[SandRat]

Be careful when you read internet health advice.

You might die of a mistype.

[T-Bone Texan]

I have been on many Indian reservations in my lifetime, so of course I know what huffing is.

Auquanet hair spray, Butter Flavored Pam, spray paint: Apparently Indians use all parts of the...something, I dunno.