Does Policosanol Lower Cholesterol? -Roger Mason

In my book Lower Cholesterol Without Drugs the supplement "policosanol" is discussed. What is policosanol? It is an extract of sugar cane pulp or rice bran that contains long chain alcohols (called C20 to C34), mostly the alcohol octacosanol. You may remember octocosanol from wheat germ was promoted years ago. It went out of favor as it simply didn't work. Policosanol doesn't work either. Regardless of how much is sold every year, it doesn't lower your cholesterol.  Beta-sitosterol,  from sugar cane pulp, has many, many published studies on animals and humans over the last 40 years. Mixed beta-sitosterols are the most effective supplement known for lowering cholesterol levels.  You must take 300 to 600 mg a day. The average meat and potatoes American eats about 300 mg a day, while vegetarians eat about twice that.  Many beta-sitosterol products have much less than that. Read the label.  Guggul gum, an Indian Ayurvedic remedy dating back over 1000 years, is also very effective for lowering cholesterol if you take 250 mg with 10% sterones (total of 25 mg of actual sterones). Guggul is “exogenous”, so only take this for about six months. Add 40 mg of soy isoflavones, 200 mg of beta glucan and 1,000 to 2,000 mg of flax oil (rather than fish oil) for a "cornerstone program" of cholesterol and triglyceride lowering. Our Better Cholesterol® contains sterols, isoflavones, and beta glucan all in one capsule. Just add the flax oil. 
 
The real cure for high cholesterol and trigylcerides is diet.  Supplements, hormones, and exercise play a secondary role to what you eat. The more you take red meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and dairy products out of your life, the longer you will live, and the better overall health you will have. People in Third World countries, who simply can't afford many animal products in their diets, typically run cholesterol levels of about 150. The popular figure of 200 for your total cholesterol level is simply too high. Morons like Douglass, Sears, Mercola, West, and the Life Extinction crowd will tell you it is "dangerous" to have levels under 200!!!! This is too absurd for words, and show what amateurs these people are. The Framingham study, for example, is the largest and longest ongoing heart health study in the world. This study proved beyond any doubt that a level of about 150 is ideal, and 200 is just too high. There are people who are sickly, have liver dysfunction, eat lots of animal fats, yet have low cholesterol. This is a pathological state. These are the people they use for proof of why low cholesterol is "dangerous" Asinine.  
 
Life Extinction "magazine" is really a catalog you pay money for. For months now they have been promoting policosanol for lower cholesterol levels. First of all, they charge $47.00 for a bottle of 10 mg X 60 capsules. The fake Cuban “studies” used 20 mg. This means a bottle will last you one month if you want to take the 20 mg you need. These are the very same people who bitched about how pharmaceutical corporations raped people by overcharging them for the prescription drugs they make.  
 
Guess what? This costs them about $3.00 as they have it directly manufactured for them. There is no middleman here, no wholesaler or distributor or anyone else to cut into their profits. They sell a $3.00 bottle of policosanol containing a total of 600 mg for $47.00. The current wholesale price for policosanol is $l,0000 a kilo or $1.50 a gram. This means that 600 mg (six tenths of one gram) costs all of 60 cents for the active ingredient. And they charge you $47.00 for 60 cents worth of policosanol. Wonderful people. 
 
The fake studies for policosanol are merely paid ads in cheap medical journals. Yes, you can buy space in many journals today if you put a disclaimer in small print that it

was funded. All of these phony studies come from a storefront in Cuba posing as a research clinic by the same people. In volume 52 (2001) of Angiology a Cuban "study" was published using 20 mg a day on humans. If 20 mg is called for why isn't Life Extinction Foundation selling 20 mg, since they are only putting 60 cents worth of ingredients in a $47.00 bottle of policosanol? Strangely enough this "study" was copyrighted for Westminster Publications. Almost no clinical research of value ever comes out of a communist sewer like Cuba. You don't copyright real studies published in real medical journals from a private press. The second "study" in volume 65 (1999) of Clinical and Pharmacological Therapy was also done in Cuba from the same storefront "National Center for Natural Products". They used the very same "researchers". It was also copyrighted by a private press. This is crap folks. 
 
If policosanol really worked there would be human and animal studies published. We would offer the strongest, least expensive policosanol product on the face of  earth. We would praise it to the skies and quote the studies. Please read Lower Cholesterol Without

Drugs. This is the most researched book in the world on lowering your cholesterol and triglycerides naturally, effectively, and safely.