High blood lipids need to be vigilant! Can natto red yeast lower blood lipids?

In recent years, the situation of high blood lipids has become more and more common, especially in the elderly, but because this situation has not yet reached the indicators of hyperlipidemia, it is not necessary to take medication, and many people do not pay attention to it. In fact, if the high blood lipids are not controlled in time, it will affect blood circulation and induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems such as thrombosis. So, what is the cause of high blood lipids? Is there any way to control blood lipid levels, and can supplementing with natto red yeast to lower blood lipids? Let's take a look.

What are the causes of high blood lipids?

People often hear the word "blood lipids," but not many people really know about it. In fact, blood lipids refer to the lipids contained in plasma, which are essential for the basic metabolism of living cells. The source of blood lipids in the human body is divided into endogenous and exogenous. The former is a class of serum lipids secreted and synthesized by the human body itself; the latter refers to blood lipids from the outside world that cannot be directly synthesized by the human body, and most of these blood lipids are absorbed by the human body from the food ingested.

Under normal circumstances, endogenous blood lipids and exogenous blood lipids restrict each other, and together help the body's lipid metabolism to maintain a balanced state. If it is long-term affected by high-fat, high-calorie diet, lack of exercise, smoking and alcoholism and other adverse factors, it will cause high blood lipids in the body, burying a hidden danger to the health of the body, and in the long run, it will develop into hyperlipidemia, and even induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems.

What should I do if my blood lipids are high?

1. Maintain a low-fat diet

For people with high blood lipids, dietary adjustment is particularly critical. Such people should maintain a low-fat diet and choose foods rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as fish, fresh vegetables and fruits. In addition, it should also avoid eating foods with high fat content such as animal liver, fried, and barbecue, to prevent excessive calorie intake, resulting in fat accumulation in the body, so that the blood lipid content in the body is increased, which is not conducive to the stability of blood lipid levels.

2. Adhere to physical exercise

High blood lipids and sports and other lifestyles also have a certain relationship, adhere to long-term regular physical exercise, can consume the body's excess calories, but also can promote the body's blood circulation and metabolism, to avoid excessive lipids accumulated on the blood vessel wall, can effectively improve the problem of high blood lipids [1]. Therefore, people with high blood lipids should adhere to moderate-intensity physical exercise, exercising at least 5 days a week for no less than 30 minutes each time [2].

3. Supplement natto red yeast

Natto and red yeast are two substances that are beneficial to health, the former is a viscous soy product, fermented with natto bacteria, high nutritional value, and a large number of nattokinase will be produced during the fermentation process. This active substance dissolves blood clots directly, stimulates vascular endothelial cells to produce tissue plasminogen (t-PA), activates plasminogen into plasmin (hydrolase that degrades fibrin gel), thereby dissolving fibrin and degrading thrombosis [3].

The latter is a Chinese herbal medicine, which is made from rice as raw material, made from aspergillus flavus fermentation, and produces the physiologically active substance Monacolin K (plant lovastatin) during fermentation, which can competitively inhibit HMG-CoA reductase (a rate-limiting enzyme in the process of hepatocyte synthesis of cholesterol) and prevent the synthesis of cholesterol in the liver, thus playing a hypolipidemic role [4].

As can be seen from the above, the regulation of blood lipids needs to start from the aspects of diet and living habits, in addition, supplementing the active ingredient of natto red yeast is also one of the effective ways to assist in lowering blood lipids. However, the preparation method of natto and red yeast is more complicated, and it is difficult for the general family to make it, but it is more convenient to eat products containing natto and red yeast active ingredients, such as the red heart bottle Shu Baining Natto red yeast yeast capsules under the well-known health brand Tomson By-Health in China.

This product is made using natto red yeast, two plant raw materials and high temperature plus low temperature double fermentation patent technology. Its main ingredients are natto freeze-dried powder and functional red yeast powder, after scientific rationing, can retain the activity of raw materials on the basis of maximizing the content of active ingredients, every 6 capsules contain 1350mg natto freeze-dried powder and 6mg plant lovastatin (derived from functional red yeast powder). Taking it in accordance with the amount every day can achieve the effect of assisting in lowering blood lipids, and can help people with high blood lipids to solve blood lipid problems.

Most of the cases of high blood lipids in the human body are due to maintaining unhealthy diets and living habits every day. Therefore, people with high blood lipids should correct their own bad diet and living habits as soon as possible, and at the same time, they should maintain a low-fat diet, adhere to physical exercise and supplement the active ingredient of natto red yeast, so as to better maintain the stability of blood lipid levels in the body and maintain blood vessel health.

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