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Many people who are looking for alternatives to cholesterol lowering medications my see information on such things as red rice yeast. When looking for a natural ingredient Shaklee tested Red Rice Yeast as an ingredient for lowering Cholesterol–the studies that showed this was a great cholesterol lowering ingredient only went for 9 weeks. Shaklee repeated [...]

If your Doctor recommends you take statin drugs for chronic heart failure you may want to give it a second thought. In a study conducted by Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell’Infarto Miocardico Heart Failure (GISSI-HF) trial and released for early online publication in the Lancet August 31, 2008. It showed that Omega [...]

The reason health minded consumers take fish oil is for the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. In this regard, krill oil supplements fall short. The product with the highest concentration of omega-3’s from krill oil that we are aware of provides only 400mg’s of omega-3’s, 150mg’s of EPA, and only 90mg’s [...]

Even scarier is that many of labels on these products said that the omega-3 supplement was treated to reduce or remove PCBs. As a consumer you were lead to believe that they were safe!

Many people think they can buy cheap fatty acid products and get the healthy oils their body needs. But there’s a problem with these low-quality oils: They may be highly toxic!