Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Since my cholesterol was a tad high and soy is supposed to lower your cholesterol, I decided to start mixing soy grits into my hamburgers and to snack on energy bars and soy nuts. I did my best to eat this awful food but whenever I did I had bad stomach cramps. I blew up like a balloon and had so much gas my girlfriend almost left me. My breath and body odor weren't too good either. If this stuff is supposed to be so good for you, why did I smell so bad?
R.W. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 Losing extra weight can lower your cholesterol, too. Choose low-fat or fat-free cheeses, sour cream, and yogurt. The fats you do eat should be healthy ones—olive oil is an excellent choice, as it contains monounsaturated fatty acids, which are proven to lower cholesterol and improve overall lipid profile.
Use herbs, salsa, and spices instead of rich sauces, gravies, and extra salt. Bake, broil, boil, or steam foods. If you cook with fat or oil, use just a little or, better yet, none at all. Try nonstick pans and cooking spray. Trim the fat from meat before cooking. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 They get you to believe you need to lower your cholesterol. But cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. There are people with 600 cholesterol counts that have absolutely no arteriosclerosis, no blockages and no heart disease. And there are people with cholesterol counts of 100 who have massive blockages and are dropping dead from heart attacks and need triple bypass surgeries. The amount of cholesterol in your blood is not the problem. The problem only occurs when the cholesterol attaches itself to the artery, thus clogging the artery and restricting the blood flow. |
Gary Null
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| You may be able to correct a testosterone deficit or a testosterone-estrogen imbalance and (with full cooperation from your physician) stop taking risky, expensive drugs to lower your cholesterol, stimulate cardiac output, and keep your blood pressure under control.
A recent study of eleven hundred men presents compelling evidence that those with serum DHEA-S in the lowest quarter (<1.6 :g/mL) are significantly more likely to develop heart disease, and other research confirms this association. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 When you take a drug to lower your cholesterol, it doesn't change the insulin resistance that raised your cholesterol in the first place, it doesn't change your blood sugar problem, it doesn't lower your blood pressure or your homocysteine level or the amount of iron in the bloodstream—all of which are known risks that need to be addressed in order to reverse or control so-called heart disease. The cholesterol drug lowers cholesterol, making you think you are fine because your cholesterol is lower. |
| Eating lots of red meat and butter is not necessarily healthful, but eliminating these (c) won't help lower your cholesterol as much as (d).
The best answer is (d). Your body needs these healthy sources of fat. Cutting down on refined carbohydrates will help your cholesterol levels much more than cutting down on fat. Walnuts, by the way, are tremendously helpful in lowering cholesterol.
8. Life is pretty good. You've got a wonderful family and some hard-earned financial security. |
| Eat more fat from sources such as walnuts and avocados, eat more eggs, cut out bread, sugar, and pasta
Answer:
Yes, the medications listed in (a) will lower your cholesterol, but they won't change the fundamental reasons why your cholesterol is high, which is a poor diet, hydrogenated fats, insulin resistance, and so on. In other words, for the most part, these drugs are just a temporary fix.
Although strength training (b) is an important form of exercise and can help build up metabolism, it does not have as much of an effect on cholesterol levels as aerobic exercise. |
| Now, after improving your blood pressure and your weight, your doctor is telling you to lower your cholesterol level. The best way to do that is to: a. Start taking a cholesterol-lowering medication, such as Lipi-tor, Zocor, Mevacor, or Pravachol b. Increase your exercise by going to the gym and lifting weights with a trainer three days per week c. Reduce your fat intake: cut down on red meat, butter, and eggs d. |
Patrick Holford
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 Since homocysteine not only damages arteries but also damages cholesterol, making it accumulate in arteries, lowering your homocysteine can be expected to lower your cholesterol too. Homocysteine is discussed in full in chapter 16, together with details on how to lower it.
Supernutrition for a healthy heart
Much is known about the causes of cardiovascular disease and how to prevent it, and no doubt more is yet to be discovered. However, few if any general practitioners are applying what is already known to prevent and reverse heart disease. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| If you are concerned about clogged arteries, take these cholesterol-lowering drugs to lower your cholesterol. This will lower your risk of getting clogged arteries and having heart disease." You believe your doctor, walk out of the office and take these drugs for the rest of your life not knowing that these drugs do not reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke, or clogged arteries, and these drugs do in fact do give you a whole host of other illnesses and diseases. |
| If they convinced you that you needed to lower your cholesterol, they could then convince you that you needed to take their cholesterol lowering drugs every day for the rest of your life. This means billions of dollars in profits to the drug companies. The fact is Lipitor and all the other cholesterol drugs are the most profitable drugs on the planet. The drug companies make more by selling cholesterol-lowering drugs than anything else. It is their biggest profit moneymaker. The fact is that by taking cholesterol drugs you are being lied to about its benefits. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| If you're taking drugs to lower your cholesterol levels and are feeling a bit down in the dumps, you should know that drug-induced low cholesterol has been linked with symptoms of depression. Quitting a smoking habit can also bring on a major depression. Both cholesterol-lowering drugs and smoking cessation affect serotonin levels.
One of the most common causes of depression is prescription drugs. Here is a list of some of the most common prescription drugs that can cause depression. |
| Fenofibrate may raise the levels or prolong the effects of these drugs:
T Anticoagulants Cyclosporine
Statin drugs (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors)
EIGHT STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO lower your cholesterol NATURALLY
1. Eat more fiber. Studies show that fiber has a direct and dramatic cholesterol-lowering effect. You can get plenty of fiber by eating fresh, whole, unprocessed foods and a plant-based diet. Pectin, a soluble form of fiber found in apples, blueberries, and grapefruit, particularly helps reduce cholesterol. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Exercise
Finally, if you want to lower your cholesterol level, get regular moderate exercise. Exercise is essential for proper function of the gallbladder and other organs. It increases the transport of oxygen to all the cells and improves circulation. Deep-breathing exercises also help to stimulate the gallbladder and liver. (Consult with a health-care provider before beginning any new exercise program. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 Use sunlight to your advantage to lower your cholesterol and promote formation of denser bones. Some of you might immediately react negatively to this statement and express your fear of melanoma. It is my thoughtful understanding that cancers in the body are produced by dehydration, inactivity, and poor choices of foods and beverages. For more than twenty years, I played three hours of tennis six days a week, in the heat of the early-afternoon sun in Tehran. I did not develop any form of cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The bottom line is that you can start making changes now to lower your cholesterol and improve your overall health that don't involve taking prescription drugs, and this is the thing that's going to keep you healthier in the long term. Sure, you can mask symptoms by taking prescription drugs, and as more symptoms appear you can take more and more drugs to mask those as well. By the time you're 60, you'll be on 12 medications a day, you'll spend $1500 a month, and you'll be a chemical wreck. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| If you are on medications to lower your cholesterol, despite the fact that, as I mentioned earlier, some of these medications do more harm than good, I don't recommend that you simply stop them. You should follow my recommendations after consulting with your doctor, and never stop taking medications without a consultation. Some of my patients have been able to reduce or eliminate their cholesterol-lowering drugs while others have not.
How do you lower your cholesterol? Remember that it's not just by eating foods with less cholesterol, though that's important. |
the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
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 Advertisements tout foods with no or low cholesterol, while others claim to lower your cholesterol. As if that's not enough, health advice always includes watching your cholesterol.
What exactly is cholesterol? Believe it or not, it's a fat your body needs to help form certain hormones, cell membranes, and bile. Unfortunately, too much of this soft, waxy substance means trouble.
Because cholesterol can't dissolve in your blood, like some nutrients, carrier molecules called lipoproteins must transport it. |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 But if you're taking ginger for other conditions, there is a possibility that it could also help lower your cholesterol.
Morning Sickness
Ginger has actually been studied as a relief for severe morning sickness. In 19 of the 27 women who took ginger for nausea and vomiting, both symptoms became less frequent within four days of treatment. The dosage of ginger-root capsules was 250 milligrams taken 4 times daily.
Since publication of the earliest studies, which were done in 1990, many conventional doctors have started to recommend ginger root for morning sickness. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 If you're taking drugs to lower your cholesterol levels and are feeling a bit down in the dumps, you should know that drug-induced low cholesterol has been linked with symptoms of depression. Quitting a smoking habit can also bring on a major depression. Both cholesterol-lowering drugs and smoking cessation affect serotonin levels.
Do you need to be told that coffee can cause anxiety? Coffee is a
IS YOUR MEDICATION MAKING YOU DEPRESSED?
One of the most common causes of depression is prescription drugs. Here is a list of some of the most common prescription drugs that can cause depression. |
Gale Maleskey
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 Having plenty of fresh raw or lightly cooked garlic may be all you need to do to lower your cholesterol, Dr. Weiss says.
The benefits of whole garlic are well-known, and Dr. Weiss has found that the experience of his patients supports the good press about garlic. "I had one lady whose cholesterol and blood pressure were really out of whack, and the only thing she did was to eat 10 to 15 steamed cloves of garlic a day—she loved it. Everything normalized in three weeks. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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 It will not only lower your cholesterol and lipid levels, but also will make you feel considerably healthier.
?Breakfast should include a serving of oatmeal or Fiber-One with fresh fruits such as blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, etc.
?Consume V2 clove of garlic, raw or as a condiment in cooking, or take one Kyolic tablet after each meal.
?Eat l/z grapefruit, including all white pulp (the material between the yellow skin and the fruit).
?Eat one pear or one apple daily.
?Consume one teaspoon of Perfect 7 Psyllium/Herbal Combination three days a week. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
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 Additionally, ginger can lower your cholesterol and thin your blood, two things that can do wonders for your heart health. In fact, ginger is so good for the heart that it's come to be known as a "cardiotonic!"
Stomachache Tea
Ginger is a tasty remedy for stomachaches, nausea and diarrhea. You can get ginger capsules at your local health food store — or you can mix up a batch of homemade "Stomachache Tea."
Peel and chop about 2 tablespoons of fresh gingerroot. Don't use the powdered ginger that you may have in your spice cabinet. |
| On top of that, the fiber in fruit can help lower your cholesterol and strengthen your immune system. The best thing is, because they're so sweet and taste so good, fruits are one natural "medicine" you won't mind taking.
Citrus
The biggest claim to fame for citrus is that it's got lots of vitamin C, an antioxidant vitamin that's been shown to fight off colds and ward off cancer, as well as protect against the ravages of alcoholism and smoking. Discovered by Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgi in 1936, this vitamin is an invaluable part of the diet. |
Prevention Magazine
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 A 10 percent drop in cholesterol may not sound like much, but doctors estimate that for every 1 percent you lower your cholesterol, your risk of heart disease drops 2 percent. This means that the rice-eaters lowered their risk of heart disease by 20 percent in only three weeks.
"In combination with a low-fat diet, brown rice is one of the best foods you can eat for lowering cholesterol," says Dr. Hegsted. |
| The danger from cholesterol is so great, in fact, that doctors estimate that for every 1 percent that you lower your cholesterol, you reduce the risk of heart disease by 2 percent.
Getting more pectin in your diet is an excellent strategy for lowering cholesterol, says Beth Kunkel, R.D., Ph.D., professor of food and nutrition at Clemson University in South Carolina. Because pectin dissolves into a gel, molecules of fat and cholesterol get trapped before they make it into your bloodstream. |
Jean Carper
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 Zaps Cholesterol, Unclogs Arteries
(GRAPEFRUIT FIBER)
It promises to lower your cholesterol more dramatically than anything else you can take, and it may clean out your arteries, too—all without the side effects of drugs.
It starts in childhood and progresses relentlessly until your arteries are wrecked—stiff, hard, and stuffed with plaque and debris. By middle age, most of us are hoping for a medical miracle to rescue us from the dreaded consequences of this premier killer, atherosclerosis. |
The Editors of PREVENTION
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 You'll develop a healthier heart, lower your cholesterol, and help increase your bone density. And if you need another reason, some doctors think that exercise may help prevent some cancers. So here's your official prescription from a doctor:
To achieve or maintain weight loss, you need to create a program that incorporates aerobic exercise and resistance training. Aerobics will decrease the total amount of body fat that you carry, while strength training will change your metabolism.
—Dr. Blix
So just how do you go about filling that weight-loss prescription? |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Cholesterol and Heart Disease
You can definitely lower your cholesterol and triglycerides by adding omega-3 fatty acids to your diet—but most of the studies that show the benefits of this therapy have been done with fish and fish oils. However, some research also shows that flaxseed has a similar effect of lowering cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the "bad" kind). |
the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
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| Eating a diet high in fiber can help lower your cholesterol, and a study of prunes helped prove it.
Researchers in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, gave a group of 41 men with mildly high cholesterol 12 prunes each day for four weeks. They then gave the same men a couple of glasses of grape juice daily for four more
Prunes can replace fat
You can use prunes to make a puree substitution for oil or butter in recipes.
Just puree about 1 1/3 cups of pitted prunes with 6 tablespoons of hot water. |
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