While herbs like ashwagandha and turmeric are now widely recognised, ayurveda encompasses a much broader range of therapeutic ...

Although statins are powerful lipid-lowering drugs, many patients with hypercholesterolemia do not reach current treatment goals. Could the addition of ezetimibe make the difference?

Researchers have identified a previously unknown step in the process by which dietary cholesterol is absorbed from the intestine into the bloodstream. The newfound pathway provides a potential new ...

Using mice as subjects for the study, researchers found a pathway that contributes to cholesterol absorption. Ultimately, high cholesterol absorption can lead to serious medical issues including ...

A member of Clostridiaceae was found to specifically impact fat absorption. The abundance of other bacterial families decreased on a high-fat diet including Bifidobacteriacaea and Bacteriodacaea, ...

An existing drug, ezetimibe, targets NPC1L1, inhibits the activity of ACAT2, and reduces cholesterol absorption. It sometimes is used in combination with statins to reduce blood cholesterol.

In a new study, published in the April Cell Metabolism, Farber’s team zeros in on a gene that the researchers call fat-free (ffr). It’s on the fish’s chromosome 10.

Impaired Fat Absorption from Intestinal Tract in High-Fat Diet Fed Male Mice Deficient in Proglucagon-Derived Peptides. Nutrients, 2024; 16 (14): 2270 DOI: 10.3390/nu16142270; ...

The cholesterol absorption (percentage of amount of cholesterol given that was absorbed) was 27.3 ± 6.7% in the 11 patients who were fed an egg yolk cholesterol meal.

Efficient absorption of fat from the diet is important for energy supply, growth, and development, especially during development .At the neonatal age, and particularly in the case of prematurity ...