Professor Robert Byrne

If you like red meat, OK, maybe once, twice a week, but not more common than that.

Cook with olive oil, nuts, pulses.

So that's a common question.

So the short answer is red yeast rice extract does have a favourable impact on your cholesterol.

It can lower your cholesterol.

It's not the method of choice.

So the method of choice is diet and lifestyle combined with statin therapy if you need it.

And red yeast rice extract is an alternative.

But the recent doctor's guidelines have looked into a bit more detail and they haven't given that a strong recommendation.

It's an alternative for people to say, listen, I'm just not going to take a tablet regularly.

I'm not going to take a statin.

It's probably better than nothing, but not much better.

Yeah, well, certainly if you talk to cardiologists, they tend to be supporters of GLP-1 drugs.

And they do seem to have a particular impact in reducing heart health.

There's been a large number of studies in recent years, and it seems to do what it says on the tin.

Sometimes there's a lot of hype about drugs and that doesn't pan out.

But this definitely seems to do one, particularly from a heart disease point of view.

They're important.

And we know in Northwest Europe in particular, we have a problem with weight.

We have a problem with obesity.