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The You Docs for Friday November 26, 2010

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Lowering LDL Cholesterol Shouldn't Be a Risky Business

Topping our "don't believe everything you read" list are labels on alternative supplements. And that's too bad, since quite a few are good. Take red rice yeast, which is nifty stuff if you can get the real thing. It lowers lousy LDL cholesterol and triglycerides as well as some prescription statin drugs do. But when it comes to quality control ... fuggedaboutit. A recent study of a dozen red yeast rice supplements found that four were laced with high levels of citrinin, a fungus toxin that acts like a diuretic, so you will pee a lot. That's not all. Citrinin is linked to liver damage, tumor growth in the kidneys and chronic renal disease. While it may not kill you, if citrinin can make a troop of Macaca mulatta monkeys sick, as it did in animal studies, you don't want to risk taking it. And there's more. As so often happens when unregulated supplements are scrutinized, the dosing was all over the place. While all 12 of the red rice yeast types tested were labeled "600 mg," including monacolins -- that's the statinlike component -- the actual amount varied enormously from bottle to bottle. Some had too much; others, next to nothing. There are healthier ways to bring your lousy LDL cholesterol down, like eating a lot less red meat and many more vegetables, plus taking daily walks, and even upping the vitamin niacin. Or simply do some stair-climbing. Just two minutes five or six times a day can lower your LDL by 8 percent. ======== The YOU Docs -- Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz -- are authors of the best-selling "YOU: The Owner's Manual" and "YOU: On a Diet." To submit questions and find ways to grow younger and healthier, go to www.RealAge.com, the docs' online home.

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