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Red
Yeast Rice
 The
brief introduction of functional Red Yeast Rice
Red
Yeast Rice is the particular traditional Chinese
product, which has thousands years of history. It has been
recorded in the traditional Chinese pharmacopeia, Ben
Cao Gang Mu during the
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), by Li Shizhen that Red Yeast Rice
could be used as a medicinal agent, and a promoter of blood
circulation and a digestive stimulant.
 In
the late 1970's, Japanese scholar, Professor Endo discovered
a kind of material from Red Yeast Rice, it could reduce the
blood-cholesterol of human body, and later he called it Monacolin-k.
His great discovery provides scientific support for the effectiveness
of the traditional Red Yeast Rice.
Function
of Red Yesast Rice
As
we all known, cardio-cerebral vascular diseases is the number
one killer to the middle and aged people,and high lipid and
high cholesterol are the primary pathogeny.
The accumulation of cholesterol of human body mainly comes
from two ways. One comes from external, that is diet, which
accounts for 1/4; the other comes from internal, that is human
itself synthesizing, which accounts for 3/4. 
Metabolization showed,human itself synthesized cholesterol
must bear a series metabolization,among which the most important
is the creation of mevalonate by interactive of methylglutaryl
coenzyme A(HMG-CoA)and its HMG-CoA reductase,finally synthesize
cholesterol in human body.The active ingredient in the Red
Yeast Rice is exactly the competitively inhibiting HMG-CoA
reductase,which could inhibit the manufacturing of cholesterol
and prevent and cure cardio-cerebral vascular diseases.
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