Turmeric is not a diabetes miracle cure, especially red rice. To lower cholesterol, it is best to use a synthetically produced and dosage-safe statin instead of yeast rice, said Hermann Stuppner from the Institute of Pharmacy in Innsbruck at the 53rd Scientific Training Conference of the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists in Schladming (until March 11).
All around the diabetes there are often and often changing “hypes” to “natural” food supplements etc., which above all have or should have a blood sugar-lowering effect. The problem out loud Stuppner: “The scientific basis for effectiveness in diseases of the metabolic syndrome is poor.” Many of the over-the-counter nutritional supplements also have completely different ingredient concentrations.
With turmeric extracts, the matter is still relatively clear. There is, for example, a clinical study with 240 subjects with prediabetes, in which ten percent of the placebo group developed the full picture of diabetes within three months. In the other half of the test subjects with two three capsules of 250 milligrams of turmeric extract, this was not the case with any of the test persons. Meta-analyzes from many studies also seem to demonstrate a blood sugar-lowering effect.
Type 2 diabetics have both an insulin resistance with too high blood sugar values and usually too high blood pressure and too high blood lipid values, which is subsumed under the so-called metabolic syndrome. Here is Red Rice has been literally “hyped” in the recent past. It is normal rice that is fermented by red mold. Then it contains Monacolin K.
“Monacolin is structurally identical to lovastatin,” said Stuppner. Lovastatin is the classic cholesterol-lowering statin drug (also simvastatin). The Yeast rice has a similar effectiveness in reducing the “bad” LDL blood lipid levels, which favor atherosclerosis etc. But Red Rice also has the side effects of statins, for example muscle pain and muscle damage or even life-threatening complications (rhabdomyolysis; dissolution of the striated muscles).
With 26 products Red Rice have recorded extremely high fluctuations in monacolin content, the expert cited an assessment by the European Cardiology Society (ESC). The consumer can not really know what he really “gets” when he uses the products.
“Of course, but not harmless,” said Stuppner. In the Lowering cholesterol On the way to HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins), one should better rely on the synthetic drugs with exact doses that have been tried and tested worldwide. According to scientific studies, cinnamon doesn’t help at all in the desired reduction in blood sugar levels.
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