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Including foods with added plant stanols and sterols in your diet – such as fortified spreads and yoghurts has been shown to help lower cholesterol levels with people with high cholesterol.

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Additionally, the phytosterols in the supplement may help reduce cholesterol absorption from the digestive tract and maintain cholesterol levels that are already within the normal range.

Plant sterols and stanols (phytosterols) are found naturally in green leafy vegetables, vegetable oil, nuts and seeds. They work by mimicking cholesterol and competing with it to be absorbed from ...

Sterols are also known as steroid alcohols, an example of which is cholesterol. They are generated in living systems from acetyl-coA by the HMG-CoA reductase pathway. LYCHOS, a lysosomal membrane ...

A U.S. patent (number 8,460,738) on the new process and composition was issued on June 11. Phytosterols in plants and cholesterol molecules in animals are highly similar and when both are dispersed ...