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All products, Red Yeast Rice, CoQ10 and Quercetin are top of the line and work amazingly well! Highly recommend!My doctor recommended all-natural Red Yeast Rice pills instead of statin drugs for my high cholesterol. I have bad side effects with every statin drug I've ever tried and I've tried many of them over the past 14 years. My body just does not like synthetic drugs and for good reason. All drugs are plant-based, but then they add extra chemicals to them. My body rejects synthetic medicines because it was never meant to ingest those chemicals.Changing my diet and exercising never helped. The only thing that DID help were statin drugs, which I could only take for a short time because I'd get really bad side effects.....nausea, vertigo, sore muscles (which is really bad because your muscles are actually deteriorating!), etc. Since I couldn't stay on a statin drug for very long, my cholesterol levels have always been in the upper 200s range. One time it was actually 296 and that really scared me!There are many different brands of Red Yeast Rice, so I did my research and discovered Nature's Plus Herbal Actives Red Yeast Rice Extended Release gave the best results. I take one tablet every night before going to bed.I just got the results of my latest blood cholesterol test. It had been exactly 3 months since I started these Red Yeast Rice pills.Total cholesterol dropped from 264 to 214. (Should be under 200) LDL (the bad cholesterol) dropped from 177 to 130. (Should be under 130) HDL (the good cholesterol) went from 70 to 67. (Should be over 40) Triglycerides went from 81 to 88. (Should be under 150)So you can see the bad stuff (LDL and Total cholesterol) dropped dramatically and the stuff I was already OK with (HDL and Triglycerides) stayed about the same. I did not change a thing in my diet or exercise because I wanted to see how the Red Yeast Rice did on its own. My doctor says I'm now "on target" and to keep taking the Red Yeast Rice.I just wanted to share these wonderful results and to prove that all-natural supplements can work just as well as synthetic drugs WITHOUT the unnecessary side effects and chemicals.Now these are my results and yours may be different. You can decide what you want to do. I say, give it a try. If it doesn't work, then go back to your statins. The one drawback is that insurance won't pay for this supplement, but at 38 cents a pill and one pill a day this shouldn't break the bank!If you have to use a statin, then this particular brand of red yeast rice is probably the best. It is the only one I could find that lists the amount of monocolins on the bottle. It gets very good reviews from an independent testing company.I used a name brand statin for a couple of years, and found that my LDL cholesterol went down significantly. Then I switched to 1,200 mg of this brand of RYR and found that the blood tests were actually better on the RYR than the statin.Neither the statin nor the RYR had a significant effect on the HDL. They did have an effect on the the platelets - cut the bad numbers in half - but still kept them in the high zone. For this you need niacin.But make no mistake about it. RYR is a statin. If you are avoiding statins because you are having problems with them, chances are you will have the same problems with RYR.The literature on moderately high cholesterol - 200-400 - is mixed as to whether or not you need a statin in order to prevent a first heart attack. Doctors seem to be blind to this literature. They have been brainwashed by the pharm. salespeople.My feeling is you should have a nuclear stress test and an echo and go from there. If your cholesterol is high...and if you have survived a first heart attack...then take a statin or RYR along with niacin and Omega 3's. But do not expect this kind of counseling from a conventional cardiologist. You'll have to find someone who practices alternative medicine.That being said, this product arrived as scheduled on Prime. It cost significantly less on Amazon than at retail stores. It had a much better expiration date than I have been able to find at retail stores.Be careful when ordering. It comes in different sizes and strengths. Look for 600 mg extended release.Excellent product. Questionable medical need. You do the research.
