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Noni cholesterol and you:
noni achieves "substantial reductions" in cholesterol and trigylcerides


The noni cholesterol research shows that "Noni reduces cholesterol and trigylcerides (fats) in the blood steam of smokers."

This was the conclusion of a small - but significant - study reported to 46th Annual Epidemiology Conference of the American Heart Association (AHA) in February 2006.

The noni cholesterol research was praised by a spokesperson from the AHA as a rare example of good science being applied to the health claims made for a food or supplement.

High cholesterol - what are the risks?

Uncontrolled levels of cholesterol in the blood stream have been linked to increased risks of other conditions:

  • angina
  • heart attack
  • congestive heart failure
  • stroke
  • transient ischaemic attacks (upto 24 hour blockages to circulation; "mini strokes")
  • diabetes
  • gallstones

    So - high levels need to be taken seriously.

    What causes the increase in cholesterol levels?

    Well, follow all the good advice you've been given about diet. It just makes good, preventive sense to decrease levels of fat in the diet.

    However, most of the cholesterol circulating in your blood stream is made by the body itself, so the impact of changing your diet is relatively small.

    Levels in the circulation increase up to age 60, so the anti-ageing properties of anti-oxidants are likely to be helpful. In this case they may impact on the effectiveness of the liver (which is responsible for removing fats from the blood stream).

    Is it possible to impact on the production and balancing of this substance by the body itself?

    Yes!

    You'll be aware - from reading the antioxidant section - that increasing levels of antioxidants impact on the levels of cholesterol.

    And that's what this noni cholesterol study seems to confirm.

    I'd say that the impact of noni on lowering cholesterol is likely to be a result of its antioxidant properties.

    How was the study carried out?

    A total of 132 smokers took part in the study. They were divided into two groups. A group of 106 took the noni juice for a month.

    In order to provide a 'control', a second, smaller group (26 people) drank a similar juice that did not contain any noni.

    None of the participants took any other drugs that could lower cholesterol levels.

    Participants consumed from one to four ounces (30 - 120 mls) of the juice per day for a month.

    Blood cholesterol and triglycerides were measured in both groups before and after the study period.

    Under the impact of noni cholesterol levels changed in the following ways:

  • Total cholesterol levels in the noni juice drinkers dropped from 235.2 mg/dL to 190.2 mg/dL, a 19% reduction.
  • Average triglycerides dropped from 242.5 mg/dL to 193.5 mg/dL, a 20% reduction.
  • There was no significant change in the blood levels of these substances in the group that drank the juice without noni.

    Would a change like this impact on my health?

    Unreservedly ... 'Yes!'

    After all, you need to be sure that the reduction you could achieve using a regime as described in this study is clinically significant. "Is the reduction large enough to impact on my future health?"

    To answer this, let's look at the values published by the AHA.

  • Less than 200 mg/dL is considered a desirable level, associated with lower risk of heart disease
  • From 200 - 239 mg/dL is considered borderline high risk for heart disease
  • More than 240 mg/dL is considered high risk of heart disease

    So, in this study, levels dropped from the high end of "borderline high risk" to "low risk" in those smokers consuming noni juice.

    One valid criticism of this noni cholesterol study is that it is small, and that it needs to be replicated with more people participating. It would also be helpful if any new study were independently funded and carried out simultaneously by two different research teams.

    However, I'm a little suspicious of essentially safe food supplements being expected to jump through the same hoops as drugs that usually involve introducing a foreign substance into the body.

    Personally (and professionally) I find this study convincing. It encourages me to recommend this juice to patients with high levels of circulating fats.

    Which product?

    The product used was Tahitian Noni JuiceŽ produced by the Morinda Corporation. Morinda is a leading distributor of noni products and has contributed over $800,000 to research into health benefits of noni.

    It's reasonable to be cautious about the funding of research by interested parties. But Morinda Inc is not in a very different position to any leading drug manufacturer carrying out research into its own products.

    Who carried out the research and where?

    This noni cholesterol research was carried out by Mian-Ying Wang MD MS, a researcher at Rockford's University of Illinois College of Medicine. She has been a general surgeon, physician and professor of pharmacology in China.

    This study formed a smaller part of a larger study on noni and cancer prevention, which has been her main research interest since 1999.


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