Substantially Lower Cholestrol Naturally by Diet, Vitamins, Herbs, Supplements and Exercise

AKA CHOLESTEROL

1... The vast majority of people can substantially lower cholestrol naturally.

Cholesterol can be lowered naturally by diet, supplements, vitamins, herbs, spices and exercise. As well, there are herbal cholesterol medicines that can be used to treat cholesterol naturally as well, if you are in a bit of a hurry. 

You don't have to let cholesterol get the better of you.  If all else fails, there's always prescription cholesterol lowering medications and drugs.

Why worry about cholesterol and go to all this fuss to fix one's cholesterol up?  Because...

2... High Cholestrol Kills and Maims

My father died about 30 years ago from cholestrol related cardiac disease, when I was just 21.  After a triple bypass operation, he had lasted another ten years, but was always weak and needing to rest.

Understanding and controlling cholestrol was new in his day.

Yes, he was advised to follow a low cholestrol diet - avoid foods high in cholestrol like butter and eggs, use margarine, eat fish, avoid fat - that was about the most they could tell him about lowering his cholestrol.

When I came down with high cholestrol, the doctors and dieticians gave me the same advice as my dad received - that didn't really help that much.

Let's face it, when you look round this cholesterol web site, you can understand why doctors and health professionals cannot possibly hope to impart the life saving information to you - the cholesterol information you need to succeed is enormous and many cholesterol sufferers will repeatedly come back to this site to gain more and more cholesterol information as they digest the earlier information they have obtained here.

Lowering cholestrol can be achieved much faster through the use of natural alternative medicines and medications Yes, quite a few herbal based companies have come up with supplements that will help you tame those wild cholestrol levels. The question is, how good are they?  We have taken the time to review and compare some of the better natural cholestrol medications that can be bought online today. These are genuine, honest reviews, that reveal the pros and cons.  So have a read before jumping in.  You can read our reviews and price comparisons, Here!

The picture of cholesterol above left: The clear vial of blood plasma is normal, but the other is a milky white because it is loaded with cholestrol. Although you can't see the cholestrol looking at the blood directly, once the lab extracts the good stuff, you can see the dangerous cholestrol fat that's left behind that could be killing you.

How dangerous is dangerous when we talk about cholestrol and cardiac disease? Well, if you were to fall down dead in the street with cardiac arrest and if you were to be given immediate CPR, your chance of NOT being resuscitated is 90%. If you are lucky to be amongst the 10% who live, you run a 10% chance of remaining in the hospital for the rest of your life.

Cholestrol is deadly - very few people get a second chance when they ignore it or fail to control it. Controlling cholesterol is vitally important.

What you may not realise is that a cholesterol caused stroke could occur anywhere in your body.  If the cholesterol doesn't kill you, it can still be very disabling.  I saw a photo of foot that had had a stroke caused by cholesterol.  It looked yuk and the person may have been going to lose it.

People can lose their eyesight when cholesterol deposits build up in the blood vessels feeding the eyes.

Cholesterol is not a game, you may feel well, but it can still be doing it's thing...

3... The Cholesterol Induced Stroke:

One way cholesterol does it's bad thing is to build up on an artery wall, which narrows it. 

The cholesterol then becomes encapsulated by a fibrous deposit, which narrows the artery even further.  This cholesterol process alone can cause weakness and reduced blood flow to vital areas of your body, but what's worse, is if the fibrous deposit raptures / tears / breaks open.

  When these raptures occur, the body attempts to repair the break it then perceives in the artery wall, by creating a blood clot over the rupture - the blood vessels normally fix themselves like that - but with the cholesterol buildup on the artery wall, the fibrous coating that developed over the cholesterol deposits and the resultant narrowing of the artery at that point, the blood clot that is formed to repair the rapture, can block / close the artery, preventing blood flow.  This is called a stroke and this is the role that cholesterol can play in causing a stroke.

You may have heard about the cholesterol myth, hoax, great con, lie, but the truth is, it's hard to believe everything these people are saying, when you can see the cholesterol clogged arteries, see the results in strokes of body parts caused by cholesterol build up, see people suffering from blindness caused by excess cholesterol.  I wonder which is the cholesterol myth - perhaps the whole idea of the cholesterol myth is the hoax, with the ones perpetuating the idea of the myth making the money from book sales and the like.

Does lowering cholesterol do anything for the cholesterol deposits already grown over?  Yes!  Lower cholesterol to normal or better and the narrowed areas of the arteries caused by the cholesterol, even those cholesterol deposits that are grown over, will have the narrowing reduced by as much as 30% per year.  That is, the arteries will be less narrow and more normal in size.

What's more, after one year of lower cholesterol, the risk of stroke also is substantially reduced - it is much less likely that the blood vessel will rapture at the narrowing.

Well, now you have an idea as to why we control cholesterol, how cholesterol can lead to a stroke and hopefully to be motivated enough to do something about it, like read the rest of this web site!

Let's start with the essentials first - What is cholestrol?  How often should you have a cholesterol test?  What are the dangerous fats and why are they dangerous for people with high cholestrol?  When you have read our essential cholesterol information and the other sections on this page, you can find more indepth cholesterol information through our links on the left - we go into things in greater detail on our other pages - but this is an excellent page to start with.

4... UNDERSTANDING CHOLESTEROL:

The next simple step is to understand the different types of cholesterol - if we lower the wrong one we can kill ourselves, likewise, if we increase the wrong cholesterol, we can again kill ourselves.  Read on for ... 

The essential cholesterol information for understanding and victory

There is some confusion as to what cholestrol actually is

There is confusion even in the medical definitions of cholestrol given by universities and doctors. It is sometimes described as fat, other times it is defined as a fat like substance, sometimes as a waxy substance. What ever the actual definition, we can at least measure the cholestrol in the blood.

There are three basic cholesterols you need to know about.

VLDL refers to Very Low Density Lipoproteins. HDL is short for High-Density Lipoprotein, LDL refers to Low-Density Lipoprotein. The HDL cholestrol is referred to as the good cholestrol, the cholestrol we want lots of, while the LDL is portrayed as the bad cholestrol, that we need to keep low. HDL cholestrol also helps to clean the LDL cholestrol out of the blood.

How are the three cholesterols different from each other?

It's a matter of size - the VLDL cholestrol is large in comparison to the medium sized LDL cholestrol or the tiny HDL cholestrol.

A more medical explanation of the different types of cholestrol: VLDL cholestrol, LDL cholestrol and HDL cholestrol are all composed of cholestrol, protein, and triglycerides. They are different from each other according to the ratio of the amount of cholestrol to protein to triglyceride. LDL is high in cholestrol. HDL is high in protein. VLDL is high in triglyceride.

Why does the type of the cholestrol matter so much? Why is the HDL cholestrol referred to as the good cholestrol? Why is LDL cholestrol referred to as the bad cholestrol?

Well, the good HDL cholestrol is a cholestrol that runs round the blood stream cleaning LDL off of blood vessell walls and attaching to it.  HDL cholesterol is then jettisoned from the body tissues, it's size tells us it is earmarked so that the liver will eliminate this type of cholestrol from the body or convert it to bile. As HDL cholestrol will not be left to build up on arteries and so on and represents cholestrol being eliminated from the body, it is referred to as good cholestrol.

Bad LDL cholestrol on the other hand is cholestrol ear marked for cell use. LDL cholestrol is the 'raw' cholestrol moving through the blood stream to allow the body's cells to take as much as they require for normal functioning. When there is too much bad LDL cholestrol in the blood, there is way too much for the cells to use, so scavenger cells latch onto it and then may deposit the LDL cholesterol onto artery walls and so on where it then becomes a health hazard increasing the risk of cardiovascular accidents - for this reason, this necessary cholestrol is referred to as the bad cholestrol, even though, in moderation, it is beneficial to us.

There is another cholesterol that has been identified as a bad cholesterol and that is Lp(a) cholesterol.  Lp(a) is a type of LDL cholesterol and has been found to be linked to cardiovascular disease.  This particular type of LDL cholesterol is apparently easily controlled by vitamin C.  See our page on the cholesterol myth to learn more about this particular type of LDL cholesterol.

VLDL cholestrol, the high triglyceride cholestrol, is also considered a bad cholestrol. The main role of VLDL cholestrol is to act as a storage device for excess calories that cannot be used straight away. When the excess calories are converted to VLDL cholestrol, the VLDL cholestrol is then taken up by the fat cells. When there is more VLDL cholestrol circulating in the blood than the fat cells can immediately take out, it becomes a problem for the cardiovascular system, in much the same way as LDL cholestrol does.

When should blood cholestrol levels be checked?

If you are over 20 years of age, it is recommended that you have both your HDL bad cholestrol and LDL good cholestrol checked every five years, along with your triglyceride level - most triglycerides are VLDL cholesterols. The actual levels considered normal or beneficial have been changing over the years, so it is best to check with a doctor about whether your particular levels are high or not, but we have included an ALL ABOUT CHOLESTROL LEVELS WEB PAGE to assist you.

There are several types of fats you need to know about in relation to improving blood cholestrol levels.

Why are some fats bad for cholestrol and other fats considered to be good for cholestrol?

Unsaturated fatty acids ( plant fats ), such as polyunsaturates and monounsaturates are considered the "good" fats to have in your diet because they don't increase your blood cholestrol directly, while saturated fatty acids ( animal fats ) and trans fats ( which is a type of fat sometimes formed during food processing ) are considered the "bad" fats to have in your diet - bad because they increase the bad cholestrol ....

More about Trans Fats / Trans Fatty Acids and Cholestrol

Trans fats have been found to be the most dangerous fat for cholestrol levels to date. Trans Fats raise total cholestrol levels, raise the LDL bad cholestrol and lower the HDL good cholesterol. It is believed trans fats can double the risk of coronary disease in women through it's effect on cholestrol.

Trans fats are intentionally made in our foods - hydrogen gas reacts with oil under pressure in food processing to form the trans fats which increase the shelf life of the product.

Trans fats can be found in cookies / biscuits, crackers, icing, potato chips / crisps, corn chips, margarine, microwave popcorn.

Unfortunately, for trying to control cholestrol, trans fats and the amount of trans fats are not normally shown in the ingredients listed on products.

However, on a cholestrol controlled diet, these products - except for perhaps small amounts of margarine - are seldom consumed. So for those of us with a cholestrol problem, our low cholestrol diets protect us from them anyway - which is a big relief for the high cholestrol sufferer !

Well, you've likely got a good grasp on cholesterol by now, so here is what the rest of my cholesterol site is all about ...

5.. YOU'LL HOPEFULLY FIND THE ANSWERS HERE TO ALL YOUR HIGH CHOLESTROL PROBLEMS.

Want to know what cholestrol is? Been told you have high cholestrol? Bad cholestrol? Want to know about lowering cholestrol? How to lower your cholestrol? How to lower cholestrol naturally? Want to know more about cholestrol and it's effects? What does that cholestrol level mean? What causes cholestrol? How to avoid saturated fats and trans fats? Want a cholesterol meal planner or a cholesterol chart? What are triglycerides and triglyceride levels? What is the cholestrol myth? What is cholestrol's silent killing partner?

In case you are interested in knowing, most of the cholesterol information is derived from my own personal experience, massive ongoing article and book research and, most importantly, from discussions with highly trained and experienced doctors. 

6.. WHAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF THIS CHOLESTROL WEB SITE:

APART FROM ALL THE ANSWERS to the cholesterol questions above and heaps more cholestrol information, there are also many low calorie, low fat, low cholestrol recipes on this web site, including one for a cream substitute.

We have also developed our best Weight Loss Program to take into account the most recent research findings, which may be very useful to you if you are overweight - being overweight is a LEADING cause of high cholestrol in many people. Our Quick Weight Loss Pages comprises a very fast weight loss plan, lots of rapid weight loss tips and a page on weight loss exercise.

In order to get the most out of our web site, may I suggest you go through ALL the relevant links to your situation. For example, each of the pages is highly relevant to most people with a cholestrol problem. Each page brings to the battleground important cholestrol information that is likely to be of great value to your endeavor to lower cholestrol correctly.

7.. HOW DO I KNOW THIS WEB SITE WILL LIKELY BENEFIT YOU GREATLY IN YOUR QUEST TO LOWER CHOLESTROL?

I know, because I followed this information and won my battles with flying colors.

No more high cholestrol, no more pre-diabetes, no more high blood pressure, no more metabolic syndrome and no more food intolerance's.

Believe me, my life depended on me getting things right - even the specialist thought I was too far gone. May you do as well as I and have a long and happy life ahead of you, full of health and vitality, as I now do.

Remember to book mark this page now or add it to your favorites now, so that you can find your way back here. You'll be hard pressed finding a more comprehensive site.

Your choice: Our Fast Links to our web pages are on the left, while our Detailed Link Descriptions are just below.

8.. Feel you need help to figure out where to start with your cholestrol problem? You could try our new cholestrol analysis service! It's free.

Email me your cholestrol and triglyceride levels and I'll try and point you to the right cholestrol pages on this web site that may hold particular relevance to your cholestrol concerns.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SERVICE HAS CEASED, BUT WILL SOON BE REPLACED BY A GUIDED ONLINE CHOLESTROL ANALYSIS - NO NEED TO WAIT.

9.. ALTERNATIVE SPELLINGS AND MISSPELLINGS OF CHOLESTROL.

By the way, cholestrol is also spelt cholesterol, colesterol (Spanish) and has the common misspellings colestrol, cholestral, cholesteral, chloresterol, cholestorol, cholestarol, cholesteral, kolestrol and kolesterol.

10.. OUR CHOLESTROL PAGES ARE PACKED WITH LIFE SAVING CHOLESTEROL INFORMATION and here are the DETAILED LINKS:

COVERING CHOLESTEROL CHOLESTROL, WEIGHT LOSS, CHOLESTROL DIET RECIPES FOR DESSERTS, PLUS CALCULATORS FOR WEIGHT LOSS, FAT ALLOWED AND MUCH MORE

Nuestra información del Colesterol en el español Cuál cubiertas el COLESTEROL así como también proporciona muchas puntas rápidas de la PERDIDA del PESO y muchas recetas de la dieta.

LOWER CHOLESTROL  Explains what cholestrol is. Explains good cholestrol and bad cholestrol and, the popular medical ways of how to go about lowering cholestrol, when one has high cholestrol or bad cholestrol. Explains triglycerides as mainly a form of cholestrol. ldl cholestrol, hdl cholestrol, vldl cholestrol - all explained, along with the cholestrol dangerous fats. Also some cholestrol diets recommended by doctors.

LOWER CHOLESTROL NATURALLY How can you lower cholestrol naturally? What are the cholestrol lowering foods? What are the herbs and vitamins that lower cholestrol? Topics covered: Cholestrol information on natural high cholestrol treatment, 1... Herbs and spices that reduce cholestrol, 2... Vitamins that lower cholestrol, 3... Supplements that lower cholesterol, 4... Foods that reduce cholestrol, and 5... High soluble fibre foods that reduce cholestrol. From these a high cholestrol diet can easily be rectified by making your own, personal, cholestrol lowering diet.

NEW: THE GOOD HDL CHOLESTEROL One of the harder cholesterol endeavors, is to increase the hdl cholesterol, the good cholesterol.  Here's the page to read if this is one of your cholesterol goals, which, if you are serious about staying alive, is one of the should be goals.

ALL ABOUT CHOLESTROL LEVELS Explains how to go about interpreting cholestrol levels and the proper way to fast for accuracy with cholestrol tests. There are several cholestrol levels: Total blood cholestrol levels; LDL ( bad ) cholestrol levels; HDL ( good ) cholestrol level; the cholestrol ratio and; Triglyceride levels aka Trigliserides levels - which are mainly VLDL cholestrol. Normal cholestrol levels are also given.

HIGH CHOLESTEROL SYMPTOMS, LOW CHOLESTEROL SYMPTOMS AND PHOTO OF CHOLESTEROL SYMPTOMS   Yes there are high cholesterol symptoms and low cholesterol symptoms that you can sometimes see, before you even know you have a cholesterol problem.

THE CHOLESTEROL MYTH Is high cholesterol or bad cholesterol really bad for you? Is it all a pharmaceutical hoax? Traditional thinking says bad cholesterol, high cholesterol is bad for you, may even kill you. Two doctors, amongst others, have come out and argued that high cholesterol, bad cholesterol, are not dangerous - that it is a third type of cholesterol, which is seldom checked out, that is the real deadly contender. A cholesterol controversy which is likely to become quite famous, or perhaps infamous. Any way, it's an interesting, provocative read, as they propose we have all been duped by the cholesterol myth, the cholestrol hoax. These doctors also tell us how to fix up our cholesterol levels.

NEW: ONLINE CHOLESTEROL MEDICINES AND MEDICATIONS  Herbal cholesterol medications and medicines that can lower the bad cholestrol.  Herbal cholesterol medications and medicines are an alternative to the sometimes risky and dangerous prescription medications, with few if any adverse side effects.

NEW: ONLINE HOME CHOLESTEROL TESTS  Cholesterol tests are part of the tools that a high cholesterol sufferer has to monitor the success or failure of their attempts to lower cholesterol.  Although such tests may be very accurate, unless you fast beforehand for about 12 hours, you wont be sure if it's your typical cholesterol blood reading, or one that is elevated or lowered temporarily by a breakfast or dinner.

THE LOW CHOLESTROL DIET Our cholestrol diet lets you know what foods to eat, what foods to avoid and which foods to eat in moderation. Plus lots of information relevant to people needing to go on a low cholestrol diet. This is our low cholestrol meal planner page. Which foods are the low cholestrol foods and which foods are foods low in saturated fats? How much cholestrol is the recommended guideline for the daily allowance? How much saturated fat should one eat? Are there any safe foods for someone with high cholestrol or bad cholestrol? Eye opening cholestrol information for the low cholestrol diet.

Low Cholesterol Diet Plan, for when you need to know NOW Our Sample Diet for lowering cholesterol covers what to eat and drink for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. Very suited to those having to start a diet to lower cholesterol, before they know much about it, or for those whose cholesterol diet may not be working.

Low saturated fat, low calorie, Low cholestrol recipes We are taking the recipes that we have on our weightloss pages and altering them to give the recipes a new lease of life as Low fat, low calorie, low cholesterol recipes. We are also adding other low cholestrol recipes we have found or have been using.

THE CHOLESTEROL CHART The cholesterol chart allows you to see how much cholesterol and saturated fat there is in a food. The cholesterol chart covers about 1000 foods. Also discussed are the limitations of using food tables and charts, as well as the limitations and misconceptions of food labelling by manufacturers.

FREE DAILY CALORIE INTAKE CALCULATOR, FAT CALCULATOR, IDEAL WEIGHT CALCULATOR etc From your height measurement and your answers to three simple questions, we are able to suggest the following ideals or goals for maximum health: Maximum and minimum weight, maximum and minimum daily calorie / kilojoule intake, maximum and minimum fat intake, maximum and minimum saturated fat intake (very relevelant to those with cholestrol problems) and maximum and minimum unsaturated fat intake. Please note that we do not record what you type in, nor do we record what suggestions the program makes to you - it is your personal information and our policy is to respect your privacy. Please note also that our calculators are under copyright and we design our calculators to stop working once our web site is left, so as to prevent the theft of our intellectual material.

FREE FREE BMI CALCULATOR, FITNESS CALCULATOR AND WEIGHT LOSS CALCULATOR From your height, weight, age and sex, we provide you with a reasonable suggestion as to your current level of fitness - your Body Mass Index ( BMI ) score with what it may mean for your health, plus we make suggestions as to some possible health problems you may be at increased risk of, plus we make suggestions about how many calories or kilojoules you are looking at to change your weight. Please note that we do not record what you type in, nor do we record what suggestions the program makes to you - it is your personal information and our policy is to respect your privacy. Please note that our calculators are under copyright and we design our calculators to stop working once our web site is left, so as to prevent the theft of our intellectual material.

CHOLESTROL'S SILENT KILLING PARTNER Syndrome X / Metabolic Syndrome is a sneaky metabolic disorder, normally associated with high cholestrol and being overweight. The human body is finely tuned, but when some very minor metabolic changes occur, each rather harmless and benign in and of itself, like slightly raised cholestrol levels ... but taken together, they can kill you after a while and make your life a living hell beforehand. Find out how to diagnose and treat Syndrome X / Metabolic Syndrome here.

SMOKING AND CHOLESTEROL Must read for SMOKERS AND PASSIVE SMOKERS - Smoking is bad for your cholesterol levels.

CHOLESTEROL IN TURKEY How to prepare and enjoy that Christmas turkey without worsening your cholesterol, plus comprehensive food analysis of turkey meat for cholestrol and saturated fat. You may even be able to turn that turkey meal into a cholestrol lowering meal!

Shrimp and Cholesterol All about cholesterol in shrimp and how to prepare and enjoy shrimp the low cholesterol recipe way.

Egg Cholesterol and How to prepare and enjoy eggs. All about cholesterol in eggs, in egg yolk and in egg whites. Also how to prepare them for a low cholesterol diet.

Fish contains about as much cholesterol as meat, find out more. Astonishing, but true, but fish is still better than meat for keeping cholesterol down.

Fish Oil, cholesterol and heart health - Not all roses. Fish Oil appears a very promising treatment for VLDL cholesterol - trigylcerides

Red rice yeast and lowering cholesterol, dosage and side effects. Red rice yeast appears to be a very powerful cholesterol inhibitor

CHOLESTROL AND SATURATED FATS IN FOODS - THE OLD CHOLESTROL DIET PAGE Which foods are the high cholestrol foods and or high saturated fat foods?

??? WHAT CHOLESTEROL TOPICS SHOULD I INCLUDE HERE? Contact me to give me your ideas if you want.

Cholesterol picture at top of page courtesy of the National Library of Medicine - the two vials in the left picture were colorised by me to reflect real blood samples.

You can also find this cholesterol information, which has been translated into Spanish by professional human translators, by visiting our web site CUBRIENDO COLESTEROL / COLESTROL, PERDIDA DE PESO, RECETAS PARA DIETAS DE COLESTEROL DE POSTRES, MAS CALCULADORES PARA PERDIDA DE PESO, GRASAS PERMITIDAS Y MUCHO MÁS.

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