more about red yeast rice

Red Yeast Rice is made by fermenting whole kernel cooked rice with added red yeast. This is the same substance that gives Peking duck its red color. Red yeast rice has been used as a food preservative and a spice, since about 400 A.D. in China. It has also been used in Oriental medicine to relieve diarrhea and indigestion, and to improve circulation of the blood since about the same time. Red Yeast Rice has recently been popular in the western world when it was discovered how well it lowers cholesterol levels in the bloodstream.

During the fermentation process, the rice and red yeast form a substance called lovastatin. Lovastatin, together with other statins, is an excellent cholesterol-lowering medication. This naturally occurring lovastatin has a smaller dose than the prescription lovastatin, but is very effective anyway. Cholesterol Combo from Nepatica is a natural herbal supplement with Red yeast Rice, Garlic, Guggul, Apple Pectin and Cayenne.

red yeast rice

Red Yeast Rice is a food created by fermenting rice with a strain of red yeast. It is also called Monascus rice or in Chinese Hung-Cu or Hung-Qu. Red Yeast Rice has been traditionally used in China and Japan as a food and as a remedy for digestive problems and bad circulation. More recently Red Yeast Rice extract taken in supplement form has been found both to reduce overall blood cholesterol levels and to improve the ratio of HDL (“good cholesterol”) to LDL (“bad cholesterol”). A study from University of California found that people who took Red Yeast Rice and maintained a low fat diet reduced their overall cholesterol level by an average of 40 points over a period of twelve weeks. Red Yeast Rice extract contains various cholesterol lowering compounds known as statins. Statins lowers the cholesterol level and reduces the risk of heart attack. Unlike many prescription products Red Yeast Rice extract has shown no serious side effects, Red Yeast Rice extract is one of the ingredients in our natural Cholesterol Combo.