Peter Clark asked:


There are massive numbers of people trying lowering cholesterol drugs. Lowering cholesterol levels is big business, and the drug companies are cashing in, bigtime, with drugs that promise to lower your cholesterol levels.

But if you’ve got high cholesterol, should you be taking drugs to lower your cholesterol, or are there other more natural routes that you can take?

Because cholesterol lowering drugs aren’t necessarily the perfect answer to high cholesterol levels. There are some problems with some of the drugs, and not everyone is convinced that taking drugs is the answer.

One of the most popular drugs is statins. There are some doubts about the safety of statin drugs, and some have been removed from the market following health concerns. However statins are extremely profitable drugs, as patients need to take them for the rest of their lives, and many are still available.

Reported concerns from the use of statin drugs include pain and muscle weakness, cognitive impairment and memory loss, impotence and birth defects and increased risk of heart failure. There’s more, but I’m sure you get the message.

And according to many reports they don’t help that much lowering cholesterol either. But they make lots of money for the drug companies.

So if you’ve got high cholesterol what options do you have for naturally lowering it?

Well of course there’s some well known routes that you can take, including changes to a lower cholesterol diet and healthier foods, and increasing your levels of exercise. That’s all been talked about before. And that’s not to say that changing your diet to lower cholesterol is a bad thing at all. Changing your diet and increasing exercise are all important steps in improving your heart health, and overall health. But sometimes, often in fact, it’s not enough.

So what other options do you have for naturally lowering cholesterol levels?

There are excellent products available to naturally lower cholesterol. They work in a number of ways. The best products seek to reduce the amount of cholesterol produced by your own body, because  much of your cholesterol is produced in your own body. They also seek to reduce the amount absorbed by the body from food in the gastrointestinal tract.

Further they work by breaking down the cholesterol in the bloodstream and increase the excretion of cholesterol carrying bile acid.

There are natural ingredients that will work to lower cholesterol, and the best natural products use a combination of them. For example there are ingredients extracted from the rind of lemons, oils from rice hulls, sterols derived from plant substances, lecethin which helps to dissolve cholesterol, and more.

But you won’t find any of these ingredients in statin drugs.

So if you’ve been told you need to lower your cholesterol, but are a little concerned about taking drugs, then you need to know that there are ways to lower it naturally. Combined with a good diet and exercise, which are important for everybody, they work extremely well.