Ezetimibe FAQ

What's the deal with these new fake scientific names for herbal medicines and supplements?

I bought some Alteril, herbal sleep formula, and I noticed it has a scientific latinized name for itself (somnia latoril). The scam pill Enzyte also now boasts such a name (Suffragium asotas) which turns out to be meaningless in Latin. I think it's cute in a precocious way, like the little herbalists and snake oil sellers all now get to make-believe they are big medicine companies with big, important medicines with meaningful, obviously-science-inspired formula names like ezetimibe (/sarcasm). I'm sure the typical, well-informed, american medicine consumer will now be 100x more likely to snap up these concoctions from the shelf at one of their local wal*marts now that they have cutesy, elegant drug names, just like real medicine! Did the FDA just recently create/erase some kind of regulation concerning this? Anyone know where I could read more about it? Thanks.

My SGOT is 32 and Serum Biluribin is 0.7.

Zetia is commercial name of ezetimibe.

Ezetemibe, which is a cholesterol lowering medication, and is marketed with the brand names of Zetia or Ezetrol, lowers blood cholesterol by inhibiting its intestinal absorption by acting on Niemann-Pick C1Like1 (NPC1L1) in the intestinal brush border. Ezetimibe causes a decrease in LDL-C. I want to know, that how does Ezetimibe result in an increase in the HDL cholesterol (HDL-C)?

Latest news from the American Heart Association: The ENHANCE trial found that the ezetimibe/simvastatin (Zetia/Zocor) combination drug known as Vytorin was no more effective in reducing artery plaque build-up than simvastatin (Zocor) alone. Additional studies by the Institute of Creation Studies showed that accepting Christ into one's heart only mildly improved the artery plaque build-up situation, but greatly reduced sexual performance. What say you?

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