How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol

Cholesterol levels are a concern for many people in the United States and can correlate to heart disease. Cholesterol lowering medications can have toxic side effects and many natural cures work better than medication.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• High fiber foods
• A grocery list
• Healthy recipes
• Cinnamon
• Oatmeal
• Vitamin C

1. To lower your bad cholesterol and increase your good cholesterol levels, all you have to do is add more good foods into your diet, and that will help you to automatically decrease the foods and factors that aren't supporting your health.

2. First, make sure your doctor has checked your thyroid levels. A low thyroid function is often related to your cholesterol being high.

3. Talk to your doctor about incorporating niacin in the form of inositol hexaniacinate.

4. Incorporate more garlic into you diet, minimum of 4,000 mcg of allicin. Talk to your doctor if you're on blood thinning medication or other medications.

5. 
   eat less meat

   Eat less saturated fat and cholesterol by reducing the amount of animal products in your diet.

6. 
   eat more strawberries

   Eat more foods that are rich in fiber such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes.

7. 
   more exercise

   Lose weight if necesary and increase your exercise.

8. 
   eat more fish

   Incorporate more cholesterol-lowering foods such as almonds, apples, bananas, carrots, cold water fish, dried beans, garlic, grapefruit, and olive oil.

9. 
   drink more water

   Drink more water and green tea, and eliminate coffee as much as possible.

10. Drink freshly squeezed juice such as carrot, celery and beet juice. Carrot helps to flush fat from the bile in the liver which helps to lower cholesterol.

11. Eat raw nuts such as unsalted pecans, walnuts and almonds. Almonds were found in one study to cut cholesterol levels by 16 points in a four week period.

12. 
    avoid cake

    Do not eat cakes, candies, sodas, processed or refined foods. Sugar is inflammatory and raises cholesterol levels.

13. Avoid alcohol. Alcohol also increases inflammation and cholesterol levels.

14. 
    relaxation lowers cholesterol

    Reduce stress and tension whenever possible. Incorporate a few minutes of deep breathing into your daily routine.

15. 
    more cinnamon

    Cayenne, spirulina, vitamin C and cinnamon have been shown to help lower choleterol levels.

16. There are natural supplements you can try such as Sytrinol and Cholesstrinol.

17. There are many strategies you can employ to naturally lower your LDL cholesterol, raise your HDL and lower your total serum cholesterol levels. It's best to try natural methods and avoid cholesterol lowering medications if at all possible.

Tips & Warnings

• Check with your doctor before changing your diet or exercise program

Resources

• visit our shop page for cholesterol cures

[Limowreck]

on 7/10/2008 Very informative and clear article! Thank you!