<p>The Mayo Clinic has a discussion of cholesterol-lowering supplements:</p>
<p>[Cholesterol-lowering</a> supplements: Lower your numbers without prescription medication - MayoClinic.com](<a href=“http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol-lowering-supplements/CL00013]Cholesterol-lowering”>Cholesterol-lowering supplements may be helpful - Mayo Clinic)</p>
<p>They mention red yeast rice:</p>
<p>There is some evidence that red yeast rice can help lower your LDL cholesterol. However, the Food and Drug Administration has warned that the following red yeast rice products could contain a naturally occurring form of the prescription medication known as lovastatin: </p>
<p>Red Yeast Rice and Red Yeast Rice/Policosanol Complex sold by Swanson Health Products Inc. and manufactured by Nature’s Value Inc. and Kabco Inc.
Cholestrix sold by Sunburst Biorganics
The presence of lovastatin in the red yeast rice products in question is potentially dangerous because there’s no way for you to know what level or quality of lovastatin might be in red yeast rice.</p>