Paul Saladino· MD
red rice yeast extract is sometimes sold in health food stores to reduce cholesterol and that's actually probably the first time we discovered a statin type molecule and that's where a lot of the statins came from
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red rice yeast extract is sometimes sold in health food stores to reduce cholesterol and that's actually probably the first time we discovered a statin type molecule and that's where a lot of the statins came from
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these are widely profitable drugs that Western medicine is a huge fan of because of their focus on LDL that were originally created from mot toxins a Mot toxin monoline K from red yeast rice oyster mushrooms was the original derivation of a Statin for which there have been multiple recalls because of statins have caused many people to suffer billions of dollars of lawsuits have been paid out for by Bayer and others for drugs like catin