I take Red Rice Yeast instead of statins.
It’s much cheaper....I buy it at Sam’s Club.....and there are no side effects that I know of.
I also take CO-Q10 and L-Carnitine.
Same here. My cholesterol is now perfectly normal, and my good to bad cholesterol ratio is great. My doctor never tries to prescribe statins anymore.
However, I think Red Yeast Rice is really a naturally occurring station.
red rice yeast is a statin. It is just not regulated for purity or dosage.
Could I ask you what your numbers were before and after the Red Rice Yeast? I’m curious because I had a friend who told me that worked very well.
Red Yeast Rice is a statin drug...
FDA withdrew many red yeast rice supplements from the market because these supplements were too similar in chemical structure to the strictly regulated prescription statin known as Mevocor. In fact, red yeast rice is almost identical to lovastatin, which is the key ingredient in the statin drug Mevacor.
It's important to understand that taking a substance that acts identically in the body to the prescription statin drugs can cause the same side effects. As we mentioned earlier, red yeast rice is almost identical to lovastatin, which is the key ingredient in the statin drug Mevacor.
Therefore, some of the possible red yeast rice side effects include the less serious side effects such as gastrointestinal upset to the potentially serious to the point of life threatening side effects like elevated liver enzymes and muscle wasting rhabdomyolysis.
In addition, statin drugs have demonstrated that they can deplete, and/or lower the levels of CoQ10, which is a vital nutrient our bodies need to function properly.
CoQ-10 (should be ubiquinol)is a necessary supplement with or without the statins. L-Carnitine is also beneficial, as is Hawthorn Berry Extract, Vitamin C (1 gram 2 to 5 times a day) and a couple other things, such as a good Vitamin K supplement, Magnesium, and Vitamin D3 (these put the calcium causing plaque buildup in the arteries back into the bones where the calcium belongs).
Vitamin K comes in three kinds. Each is important...K1 and two types of K2. And much higher doses than is normally suggested. Vitamin D3 is safe at high doses, and a moderate, essential safe dose is 10,000 IU daily. If you live in Florida and spend a lot of time in the sun, you don't need as much. If you live in Florida or anywhere else and you are dark skinned, you need to supplement the 10,000 IU daily. Dark skinned people get little D3 from the sun.
Have your liver enzymes checked. Liver damage is no way to go. I wouldn’t drink alcohol or take ibuprofen if I were on ryr... Just to be safe.