Would you prefer to take cholesterol lowering drugs, or naturally lower your cholesterol?

So many people seem to have a cholesterol problem. High total cholesterol, or perhaps the ratio between your good, or HDL cholesterol and your bad, or LDL cholesterol, is wrong.

And your doctor is telling you that you need to take more notice of your cholesterol levels, and overall heart health.

And your doctor may be suggesting tackling the problem with prescription drugs like statin drugs.

Unfortunately drugs generally, and statin drugs in particular, do not come without some risks of side effects. Statin drugs have been linked to fatigue, nausea, gastrointestinal problems, muscle weakness and general pain. Of course the drug industry denies all of this, but it’s still there.

What options do you have for lowering cholesterol naturally?

First we need to identify what exactly we mean by lowering cholesterol “naturally”. What exactly is “natural”?

For the purposes of this discussion we take “natural” cholesterol management to mean a non prescription drug approach to managing cholesterol levels.

This should include a good diet to lower cholesterol, improved exercise levels and the use of natural cholesterol managing supplements.

Most people find that lowering cholesterol levels by diet alone is difficult. Your body produces it’s own cholesterol and so changing your diet only affects a portion of your total cholesterol input, and changing levels to lower cholesterol naturally through diet alone is pretty hard.

But a good cholesterol lowering diet is a part of the overall equation. You need to cut down on meat and dairy that is high in saturated fats and replace these with fruits, fresh vegetables and grains. This will also help with general or overall health, which in turn translates to improved general cardiovascular health.

And improving exercise levels is also an important part of the overall approach.

Finally you need to use a high quality natural cholesterol lowering supplement. The best natural cholesterol lowering supplements tackle the problem from a range of angles.

They reduce your body’s ability to produce cholesterol, reduce cholesterol absorption in the gut from food, and also increase the excretion of bile acid, which carries cholesterol with it.

So naturally lowering cholesterol levels is very achievable. You don’t need to risk side affects by taking prescription drugs like statins.

But you do need to manage your diet carefully, increase your exercise levels and start using a high quality natural cholesterol lowering supplement. Read the rest of this entry




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