Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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I love it.
I want to just briefly like shout out is not the right word.
Rage about rage.
Because there is a lot out there right now on like, oh, alternative types of medicines to lower cholesterol.
Yeah.
And I'm not talking about lifestyle interventions like diet and exercise changes.
We already talked about those.
They have decent evidence.
They're an important part of this.
But one of the things that some people use or claim to have a benefit in lowering cholesterol are phytosterols, right?
Those are plant-based cholesterols.
And it is possible, based on some observational data, that consuming high levels of these plant-based cholesterols or plant-based sterols
might decrease LDL cholesterol, especially when you look at people on vegan diets who have quite a lot of phytosterol consumption or who are taking other additives of phytosterols.
But we have no randomized control trial data on these.
And the data that do exist, what's really interesting is that they seem to be most effective when they're consumed with meals, meaning when you're getting it from foods rather than just a supplement or an addition.
And of course, as we talk about so often on this podcast, Erin, there are no regulations on supplements, whether we're talking about phytosterols or other nutraceuticals.
And one of the big ones out there for cholesterol is red yeast rice.
You mentioned it, Erin.
The mechanism of the compound produced by this yeast that's grown on rice is
is that it blocks HMG-CoA reductase.
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