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Berberine, a natural compound, helps your liver cells make more LDL receptors—these are like little doors that pull bad cholesterol out of your blood—by keeping the instructions for making those doors from falling apart, and it needs a specific cell signal (ERK) to do this.

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Berberine, a natural compound, was shown to help liver cells make more LDL receptors by protecting the instructions (mRNA) that tell the cell how to build them — and this only works when a specific cell signal (ERK) is active.

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