Video: How to Get Cholesterol Levels Low

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Lowering cholesterol levels is all about eating foods that aren't fatty, drinking more water and adding more vegetables to the diet. Find out how certain medications can help to lower cholesterol levels with help from a physician's assistant in this free video on lowering cholesterol levels.

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Video Transcript

Ways to lower your cholesterol if you happen to suffer from hypercholesterolemia which is elevation of your cholesterol is to change your lifestyle first. Eat less fatty foods. To get more exercise. Drink more water. And to avoid things that have a lot of fat in them such as cheeses, chicken skin, fatty meat, things like that. A more vegetable diet is more beneficial in that it doesn't have fat in it. There are also medications you can take should your lifestyle changes not lower your cholesterol that are designed to lower and or raise specific parts of your cholesterol because cholesterol is in general several types of lipids or fats that collect in your bloodstream and can cause blockages. HDL or high density lipids are the good ones that benefit the human body and you want those to be at a certain high level where as the low density lipids or LDL's and triglycerides are the ones that can cause the harmful blockages that can lead to strokes and heart attacks. So depending on what your different components of your cholesterol levels are upon medical testing your physician can design a medical treatment including lifestyle changes and medication to enhance certain levels of the HDL and the beneficial lipids and reduce the levels of the non-beneficial ones.

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How to Get Cholesterol Levels Low

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