This Grain Cures Cholesterol (better than statins)

What’s the name for when your blood vessels get clogged with cholesterol?

Atherosclerosis!

It occurs when immune cells and cholesterol become embedded in vessel walls and inflamed.

The vessels narrow, reducing the amount of blood that flows through them. This eventually leads to heart disease and often to an untimely death.

As scary as it sounds, there may be hope. A new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has discovered a healthy grain that fights bad cholesterol.

In fact, it was as effective as statins without the nasty side effects.

Previous studies have found that whole-grain millet slows the movement of colon cancer cells, which led researchers to wonder whether it could work for atherosclerosis.

The protein involved is called foxtail millet bran peroxidase (FMBP).

Researchers applied FMBP to a mixture of human aortic smooth muscle cells, immune cells, and fats in the laboratory. These cells cause inflammation in your blood vessel walls and clogging of the vessels.

Both the smooth muscle cells and immune cells absorbed fewer of the fats when treated with FMBP. The researchers identified two key atherosclerosis-causing proteins in the immune cells that were blocked, suggesting that FMBP reduces the risk of atherosclerosis.

Mice that were genetically predisposed to atherosclerosis were fed a high-fat diet. Some were then treated with either statins or FMBP. Others were left untreated.

When the researchers compared the three groups, they found that the untreated mice had atherosclerosis, while those on statins and FMBP exhibited approximately the same degrees of reduction in plaque.

It is important to buy foxtail millet as a whole grain. The fine millet flour used to bake bread is refined, meaning that it has been milled and sieved to remove the key ingredient – bran. To get more millet in your diet as a whole grain, consume it as a breakfast cereal.

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