Better Natural Remedies.com :: High Cholesterol
Discover how to Reduce High Cholesterol Naturally
High blood cholesterol puts you at risk for developing heart disease and stroke. However, many people that have heart attacks or strokes have normal cholesterol. But having high cholesterol is not natural so it is in your best health interest to keep a normal cholesterol level.
Cholesterol is made in the liver and comes into your body through food. To get it into your cells and wherever it is used in your body, cholesterol is moved there, in the blood stream, by lipoproteins. Lipoproteins that distribute cholesterol throughout your body are called low-density lipoproteins, LDL. Now, those lipoproteins that pick up the excess cholesterol that the cells did not or could not use are called high-density lipoproteins, HDL. This excess cholesterol is return to the liver, which passes it along to the gallbladder to excrete it out of your body through your stools.
If you eat enough fiber, then a lot of cholesterol is bound up in the fiber and excreted in your stools. If you eat a low fiber diet, then cholesterol moves into the colon and some of it is reabsorbed into your blood stream through the colon walls.
When you have excess cholesterol in your blood and it becomes oxidized by the attack of free radicals, then cholesterol attaches itself to your artery walls. Over time this cholesterol that deposits on your artery walls can build up making them narrow and hard. This condition is called arteriosclerosis and sets the stage for you to have a heart attack or stroke as you age.
Normal total Cholesterol levels: 165 – 200 mg/dL
Normal LDL: below 130 mg/dL
Normal HDL: 50 mg/dL or higher
The ratio levels of the different cholesterols are the most important normal indicators.
Ratio of total cholesterol/HDL should be less than 3.7
Ratio of total LDL/HDL should be less than 3.0
Another more accurate measure of potentially dangerous cholesterol levels is found in a cholesterol particle that is found in both LDL and HDL. This particle is known as ApoB, Apolipoprotein B, and is found in LDL and ApoA-1, Apolipoprotein A-1, which is found in HDL.
Normal Reference Range ApoB: 55 – 125 mg/dL
Normal Reference Range Apo-1: 125 – 215 mg/Dl
Normal Reference Ratio Range ApoB/ApoA-1: 0.30 – 0.90
High Cholesterol Symptoms
There are very few physical symptoms of high cholesterol, but here are a few to watch out for: cold hands and feet, mental confusion, short term memory loss, difficulty breathing after minor exercise, frequent dizziness when you stand up.
High Cholesterol Causes
Poor diet is one of the main causes of high cholesterol. In addition, a few more high cholesterol causes are inactivity, hypothyroidism, stress, anxiety, and diabetes.
High Cholesterol Diet
Treating high cholesterol with diet is the best way to get your cholesterol in control. By adding exercise to diet, this will gives you the best way to bring your health back to normal. By adding specific supplements, you can help to prevent and maybe even reverse some of the cholesterol build up in your arteries.
The first thing you need to change in your diet is to consume more fiber. And you want to make sure that you have good, regular. bowel movements, since excess cholesterol is moved out of your body through your stools. To learn more about constipation and good colon health see my constipation e-book. Some sources of fiber are apple pectin, flax seeds, oat meal, oat bran, wheat bran, wheat germ, brown rice, beans, fruits, and uncooked vegetables.
Reduce you consumption of saturated fats. Some saturated fat is needed for good health but some reduction is needed since it is over done by most people. Stay with fish, fish oils, flax oil, and olive oil.
Because cholesterol is highly susceptible to oxidation damage from free radicals, a diet to offset this process is highly important. A diet high in anti-oxidants, fruits and vegetables and anti-oxidant supplements is necessary to keep you healthy into old age.
One dangerous food product is hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats. You must try to avoid them since they cause your Ratio of total LDL/HDL to increase quickly above 3.0 In addition they are an active free radical that damages your cholesterol. So read your food labels.
Cholesterol lowering spices are cayenne, rosemary, oregano, onions garlic. Eat almonds and pecans. These are the healthier nuts.
High Cholesterol Remedies
- Fish Oil – use up to 1500 – 2000 mg per day with meals. Fish oil reduces artery inflammation, as a result of cholesterol deposits, and lowers cholesterol.
- Policosanol – use 10 – 20 mg each evening before bedtime. This supplement reduces cholesterol and increases the good cholesterol HDL. The result is total cholesterol:HDL ratio goes down.
- Red Yeast Rice and CoQ10 – use these supplements together – use red rice 1200 mg two times per day and 100 mg of CoQ10 each time with red rice. This combination does what Policosanol does with cholesterol.
- Guggul – use 1500 mg standardized to 5% guggulsterone. An effective India herb to reduce cholesterol and raise HDL.
- Multi Anti-oxidant – use a complex of antioxidants and take daily. This supplement and the fruits and vegetables will give you plenty protection against free radicals.
High Cholesterol Categories
Super Cholesterol Formula Splash
"This cholesterol supplement contains Policosanol, guggulsterone, garlic and a few more important cholesterol lowering nutrients....Rudy"
Click for more information on Super Cholesterol Formula Splash
There are many other herbs and supplements that can help lower cholesterol so there is no reason to use drugs. So also look at varying the supplements you use. Use B-vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, green tea as antioxidants.
Also check out these e-books on cholesterol to learn as much as you can to take care of yourself and to inform your family members also.
Lower Cholesterol Without Drugs
Stomach | hair Growth | Senior Citizens | Colon Remedies | Children's Remedies | Energy Loss | Back Pain | Health Equipment | Skin Beauty | High Blood Pressure | Arthritis | Acne | Constipation | Use Natural Remedies for Hearing Loss Prevention or Treatment | Bad Breath Cures | Liver | Heartburn | Nutritional Supplements | Diabetes | Asthma | Mouth-Teeth | Body Building Supplem | Pet Remedies | Eyes | Allergies | Body Building Equip | Remedies and Diet for Acid Reflux and Heartburn | Kidney | Memory Loss | Hairloss | Prostate | Natural Gifts Baskets etc | Weight Loss | Osteoporosis | High Cholesterol |