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Natural lowering cholesterol

Diet and exercise. That's the trick.

I know you've heard it before and likely don't want to hear it again, but if you have a health related question, there's a fair chance that the answer you're looking for is diet and exercise. No two ways about it, those are the most important things you can do to make sure you live a long, healthy life.

Take natural lowering cholesterol, for example. You don't need statins, which wikipedia.org defines as the following:

The statins (or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) are a class of drugs that lower cholesterol levels in people with or at risk of cardiovascular disease

They lower cholesterol by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, which is the rate-limiting enzyme of the mevalonate pathway of cholesterol synthesis. Inhibition of this enzyme in the liver results in decreased cholesterol synthesis as well as increased synthesis of LDL receptors, resulting in an increased clearance of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the bloodstream. The first results can be seen after one week of use and the effect is maximal after four to six weeks.

Crestor and Lipitor are statins, and while they do a good job, they come with side effects. And side effects suck.

No, for natural lowering cholesterol, you want to concentrate on diet and exercise. Get the high fat, high cholesterol and processed foods out of your diet. Nothing that comes in a box or in shrink-wrap, nothing you throw in the microwave for two minutes, nothing that, when you look at the packaging, you think "I don't know what that is."

Instead eat fresh fruit. Make yourself a salad and add olive oil and vinegar instead of using premade dressings which invariably have ingredients you want no part of. Make beans or lentils with rice for a meal or two - that's a complete protein, same as chicken, beef or fish. Eat a handful of raw almonds if you're hungry.

And make sure to work out. Four times a week or more if possible, getting your heart rate to 120 at a bare minimum. Though 150 and above is better.

This is the way to natural lowering cholesterol. You don't need to do anything fancy or go by the latest trend. Just do what's worked for humans for eons. Go by what your common sense tells you: Eat fresh, healthy foods. Get out of your recliner and go for a jog. Do a few push-ups before you go to sleep.

And quit smoking. Do all that, and you'll see your cholesterol start to drop like a rock.

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