Posted on 05/18/2016 8:25:02 AM PDT by blam
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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Febreeze is a great product——now they will probably change it.
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Some of us have bad genetics.
Just like they changed Nyquil which doesn’t do anything anymore.
Yeah. Nyquil and Contacts used to be great if you couldn’t sleep. Now you might as well swallow pebbles.
LDL cholesterol bad, but only when made sticky by oxidation then it starts clumping and building which leads to inflammation then the inflammation gets to the point that it causes red blood cell clotting which leads to the heart attack/stroke stuff.
HDL cholesterol good. Helps to line molecules and keep it from sticking. Omega acid rich fats found in fish/nuts/avocados/etc help keep HDL high.
Anti-oxidents help with preventing the oxidation.
At least that is what I understand.
I think there is a difference between carbs in grains vs carbs in tubers which may account for some of the discussion on this particular type of sugar, but I don’t disagree with what you state in the least. Everyone pretty much agrees now that the “AHHHH cholesterol!” stuff from studies done 80 years ago pretty much didn’t have all the information and tried to make the answer too simple.
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