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Article: Cut cholesterol with policosanol: this supplement worked better than a low-fat diet in one study. (Supplement Brief).
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- Natural Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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MANUFACTURERS OF POLICOSANOL USE either sugar cane wax or beeswax to make this supplement. Cubans have taken it for decades to control their cholesterol.
How It Works
Your body produces almost 85 percent of its blood cholesterol in your liver, and experts believe that policosanol impedes the work of enzymes critical to this production process. Policosanol also flushes d!etary cholesterol from your body by blocking cholesterol receptors, found mostly in your liver.
Evidence
All human studies have been performed in Cuba with policosanol made from sugar cane wax. No studies have been done to prove that beeswax-based supplements are as ...