Does red rice yeast lower cholesterol ?

Red yeast rice capsulesDoing some basic research, red yeast rice does lower cholesterol ,but  there has been controversy from the FDA and the fact that some of the old packaged presentations of natural red yeast rice contained statins. Because of this ingredient  the good old FDA decided to step in and regulate it. After all, pharmaceutical drugs that help lower cholesterol contain some sort of statins. Read the rest of this entry »