Red yeast rice in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia
Red Rice Yeast was already used by the Chinese in the year 800 BC. The latter attributed to him the property of relieving indigestion and diarrhea, but also of promoting the good circulation of blood. Red rice yeast was exported to the United States of America in 1990 when Pharmanex launched the Cholestin product made from red yeast rice extract. The product has quickly become a success thanks to its efficiency but also because of the price much more affordable than synthetic statins. The success was so dazzling that it was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration, which regarded the dietary supplement as an unapproved drug. How is it made? First of all, you should know that Red Rice Yeast is derived from a microscopic fungus that produces a red pigment on the rice. In the first place it is necessary to cultivate this mushroom on the rice then to ferment it. It is during fermentation that a red pigment appears on the mushroom. Then you have to dry the rice and the mushroom. ...