How Vitamins & Supplements Reduce Cholesterol

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to talk to you about cholesterol and in particular ways to lower cholesterol because that's so important, because high cholesterol, especially the bad form the LDL is going to put you at risk of getting a lot of cardiovascular problems like strokes and heart attacks. Now in this clips we are going to look at multivitamins and specifically niacin which is a B complex, B6. Niacin is very helpful in the fact that it increase your HDL levels, which is the good cholesterol and it helps to decrease the LDL levels in your blood. So here you can buy niacin in a bottle by itself, but it's also good to take niacin you can buy in the multivitamin bottles products, very easily available in many drug stores and any pharmacy or supermarkets. Where you can get a whole series of multivitamins and or the minerals. So niacin will be added into it but look at the back at the content level of niacin as well. So if you think there is not enough for the daily recommended dose of niacin then you should go and buy the concentrated tablets as well. But here is a selection of lots of different products you can buy that would also have niacin in it and here also is recommended to take a lot of the B vitamins, so here is a B1. But like I said you can get B6 which is niacin readily available in the stores by itself. So folic acid, potassium tablets. This is just examples. It is so important to keep up with your supplements. Your multivitamins and your mineral supplements to supplement your intake of your daily food because usually most people are deficient in there calcium and their potassium minerals because they don't eat enough, an adequate, healthy diet. So remember niacin is a good way to decrease your LDL levels."