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Red Yeast Rice One of the first major policosanol products distributed in the United States was Cholestin, made by a company called pharmanex. But before it contained policosanol, Cholestin contained red yeast rice. It's a tale of woe and intrigue—a story of Big Pharma and the FDA ganging up on a small herbal company. Pharmanex discovered that Chinese researchers had found that red yeast rice could lower cholesterol and triglycerides. Nobody else was paying much attention to this kind of foreign research, so the company decided to do its own clinical trials.

The agency agreed that pharmanex was selling an unapproved new drug, even though it has been used for hundreds of years in China to flavor and color meat and fish. Lengthy legal battles ultimately resulted in pharmanex taking red yeast rice off the market and substituting policosanol in its Cholestin sold in the United States. Despite the fact that the original company pulled the plug on a standardized, purified, and tested product, a number of other manufacturers have jumped into the game.

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Red yeast rice (Cholestin from pharmanex) As directed on label. Contains lovastatin, which has been proven to reduce cholesterol levels (synthetic lovastatin is often prescribed for this purpose). Selenium 200 meg daily. If you are pregnant, do not exceed 40 meg daily. Deficiency has been linked with heart disease. Destroys free radicals in the heart. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) As directed on label. A powerful antioxidant. Taurine Plus from American Biologies 1,000 mg daily. Take with 50 mg vitamin B6 and 100 mg vitamin C for better absorption.

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The early pharmanex data were intriguing, but it's time for someone to step up to the plate and give us new and better research. Nevertheless, we do hear from many readers that they have great success getting their cholesterol under control with this dietary supplement. • • • Q. / am a 61-year-old retired physician. Over the past several years, my total cholesterol has crept up from 215 to 255 despite an almost vegetarian diet and daily exercise. I've never taken cholesterol-lowering drugs because my ratio of beneficial HDL cholesterol to total cholesterol has always been good.

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Because one of the active constituents in red yeast rice, monacolin K, is chemically identical to the purified prescription drug, lovastatin, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1998 declared that the product was an unapproved drug and banned its import. pharmanex, the manufacturer of the original red yeast rice preparation, Cholestin, appealed the ruling, and in June of 1998, a federal judge in the state of Utah ruled that the product was not a drug but a dietary supplement (food) as defined in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (Skinner, 1998).

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Also in 1999 a Utah court interpreted DSHEA to mean unambiguously that dietary supplements are to be regulated as foods, not drugs, and that they can be sold even when they contain active ingredients identical to those in prescription drugs. In pharmanex v. Shalala, the court ruled that the FDA had no right to restrict sales of Cholestin, a "milled red yeast rice" supplement, even though it contained a chemical indistinguishable from lovastatin, the active ingredient in cholesterol-lowering prescription drugs.

As noted in the previous chapter, the courts overruled this action in pharmanex v. Shalala and allowed Cholestin to be sold as a dietary supplement (although a federal court later overturned this decision). Researchers have confirmed that Cholestin reduces blood cholesterol levels by about 10%, but they note that it is formulated to contain higher levels of active ingredients than traditional red yeast rice. As a prescription drug, lovastatin has been studied extensively, but hardly any research has been done on the eight other cholesterol-lowering ingredients in Cholestin.

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