How to lower high cholesterol naturally without prescription drugs

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How to lower high cholesterol naturally without prescription drugs JoAnn Guest

Mar 29, 2005 10:03 PST

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Many readers have contacted me and asked about my own cholesterol

numbers. They ask, " How did you achieve LDL cholesterol of 67 without

using prescription drugs? " I'm glad to see these questions. Readers

should be skeptical of anyone who talks about health, and they should

demand that people who teach health be healthy! It doesn’t make sense to

get your health information from a person who isn't healthy. The

credibility that really counts is the ability to demonstrate an

outstanding level of health in your own life.

 

 

 

If you know anything about cholesterol, you know that what really

matters is the ratio of LDL-cholesterol to HDL-cholesterol. LDL stands

for Low Density Lipoprotein, and HDL stands for High Density

Lipoprotein. LDL is the so-called 'bad cholesterol' and HDL is the

so-called 'good cholesterol.' If you have 10 times as much LDL as HDL,

then you’re at very high risk of a heart attack as well as other

cardiovascular disorders.

 

A person with a moderate risk of heart attack might have a ratio of

around 7.1. The range for what is considered average risk is 4.4-7.1.

People with low risk measure between 3.3 and 4.4. With that in mind, you

might wonder if I'm in the high risk, medium risk or low risk category.

 

My ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol, as verified by Sonora Quest

Laboratories in Tucson, AZ, is 1.08. That is almost a one-to-one ratio

of LDL to HDL cholesterol. It's the kind of number that causes doctors

to drop their jaws in utter shock, simply because they've almost never

seen these kinds of numbers before. The medical textbooks might describe

a human in perfect health as having such a ratio, but to actually see it

in practice is very unusual.

 

The number is so rare, that many people might suspect that it couldn't

possibly be right. That's why I have the test results on record, scanned

and verified by my naturopathic physician. They're also on file at his

office. These are genuine numbers, and they can be attained by anyone

who follows the same strategy that I have followed, which is described

in more detail below.

 

You might also be wondering what my LDL cholesterol number is. As you

may know, the target for LDL cholesterol used to be anything under 130.

Recently the American Heart Association, along with a panel of board

members with ties to prescription drug companies, lowered that number to

100. They now say the optimum number to shoot for is 70, although

anything under 100 is still considered very good. My own LDL cholesterol

is 67. To see a person with an LDL level of 67 is also quite unusual, as

any doctor will tell you.

 

But enough about my numbers. Let's talk about YOUR numbers, and how you

can change your numbers for the better. The first thing you should know

is that these numbers were achieved with absolutely no prescription

drugs whatsoever. I frequently write about the dangers of prescription

drugs, and I’m a strong advocate of natural health, an outspoken critic

of the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA and prescription drugs in

general. I wouldn't take a statin drug if you paid me millions of

dollars. I wouldn't touch a pharmaceutical unless it was used in an

extreme emergency, for a short term only.

 

For example, if I were in an accident and needed a drug to deal with

trauma or pain I would avail myself of that prescription drug. But I

would never take a prescription drug long term. And it is long term use

that the pharmaceutical industry is promoting to the general public.

They want everyone in the world to take prescription drugs every day for

the rest of their lives. Statin drugs certainly fall into that category.

One of the primary marketing messages about statin drugs is that you

need them to reduce your cholesterol level and bring it into a healthy

range. But you don't need statin drugs in order to achieve a healthy

level of cholesterol, as has been demonstrated right here.

 

What else did I do to achieve these numbers? Let me tell you that these

numbers are impossible to achieve without regular physical exercise. I

exercise around 10 hours per week, sometimes more, sometimes less. But I

do something physical every day in terms of getting my heart rate up and

engaging in cardiovascular exercise. I might go cycling, swimming,

jogging or even walking. Sometimes I climb stairs, other times I do

gymnastics. I might engage in strength training, or even play frisbee at

the local park. Every day I'm outside (or in the gym) doing something

physical.

 

The key is that you have to be doing something physical each and every

day, and you have to stick with it for the rest of your life. The only

way to have healthy cholesterol levels is to engage in regular physical

exercise. There is no way around it! No prescription drug will give you

the same benefit, and there’s no nutritional supplement that takes the

place of physical exercise. The human body was meant to be moved, and if

you want yours to be healthy, you've got to move it.

 

Besides exercise, I’ve also completely eliminated all processed foods

and junk foods from my diet. I eat no manufactured foods whatsoever,

that is, no breads, no packaged cereals, no frozen foods, no fried

foods, no junk foods, and certainly no candy bars, breads, crackers,

cookies, pastas or anything of that sort. I also avoid cow’s milk, and I

wouldn't touch red meat if you paid me.

 

Red meat is one of those foods that tends to give people very bad

cholesterol numbers. It raises their LDL cholesterol and gives them a

heavy dose of saturated animal fat. I also avoid all chemical

ingredients that are known to promote disease... these ingredients

include MSG, sodium nitrite, chemical sweeteners such as aspartame, and

of course artificial colors.

 

I drink no soft drinks whatsoever, no milk and no fruit juices. The only

things I drink are water, soy milk and unsweetened tea. In addition to

avoiding certain foods, I also supplement my diet with a wide array of

superfoods, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals and nutritional

supplements. My favorites are chlorella, spirulina, broccoli sprouts,

quinoa, sea vegetables, soy products, and any of the green food powders

or fresh vegetables. This is where I get my outstanding nutrition (see

related ebook on nutrition) that I firmly believe plays a huge role in

my ability to produce outstanding cholesterol numbers.

 

In addition to all this, I make sure I get plenty of fiber in my diet,

and I eat a lot of macadamia nuts, pecans, peanuts, cashews and other

nuts. I frequently supplement with flaxseed oil, extra virgin coconut

oil and olive oil. And by the way, a lot of people would say that

coconut oil is extremely bad for your cardiovascular health. Some

doctors argue that because it has saturated fat, it must be bad for you.

Yet I eat coconut oil on a daily basis, and yet my cholesterol numbers

speak for themselves. They show that a diet with extra virgin coconut

oil is quite consistent with outstanding cardiovascular health. If

coconut oil were bad for you, my numbers would be out of whack. There's

no way I could have a ratio of 1.08 if I were consuming fats on a daily

basis that were bad for my health.

 

Some of the other things I do, from a nutritional standpoint, are eating

aloe vera gel, and eating no corn oil or other low-grade oils. I avoid

all hydrogenated oils, and I eat at least one extremely large salad

every day. Some days I eat two large salads. I also supplement with rice

protein, soy protein, psyllium husk fiber, and superfood products like

Jenny Lee Supergreens and The Ultimate Meal. There's no question in my

mind that a person who does all of these things will achieve similar

numbers to the ones I'm demonstrating here.

 

You don't have to hit a ratio of 1.08 to be extremely healthy. In fact,

if you can get your ratio down to 3, your doctor will be quite pleased

at your progress. You don't have to change everything in your life all

at once in order to do this, you just have to take small incremental

steps and make them part of your daily habits.

 

For example, you could start walking every day, beginning tomorrow. You

could walk 30 minutes a day and then increase it gradually until you're

walking one hour a day.

 

You could start avoiding certain foods in your diet, such as red meat,

soft drinks, cow’s milk or anything containing hydrogenated oils. Be

sure to check the ingredient to find out which foods contain

" hydrogenated " oils.

 

You could also start supplementing superfoods right now. It just costs

you a few dollars a day (about the cost of one cup of coffee from

Starbucks), but it has a remarkable impact on your health. I suggest

starting with spirulina and chlorella, because they're the easiest to

take in capsule form. Check out quinoa and look into supplementing your

daily diet with green foods powders, like those I've mentioned above.

 

You can also look into taking high-quality mineral supplements and

making sure you're getting enough calcium and trace minerals in your

diet.

 

Investigate sea vegetables and find out what they can do for you. Plants

from the ocean offer amazing healing properties and I’m a firm believer

in their ability to treat cancer, among other chronic diseases.

 

The bottom line is that you can start making changes now to lower your

cholesterol and improve your overall health that don't involve taking

prescription drugs, and this is the thing that's going to keep you

healthier in the long term.

 

Sure, you can mask symptoms by taking prescription drugs, and as more

symptoms appear you can take more and more drugs to mask those as well.

By the time you're 60, you'll be on 12 medications a day, you'll spend

$1500 a month, and you'll be a " chemical wreck " .

 

Alternatively, you can find ways to boost your body's health naturally,

the right way, by following the fundamental laws of nutrition, physical

exercise, and avoiding foods that promote disease.

 

If you do everything mentioned in this article, your cholesterol will

drop very quickly, ultimately reaching 100 or less. Of course, always

work with your naturopathic physician when engaging a new health

strategy. Or, if you have a more conventional doctor, make sure he

agrees with this strategy before beginning.

 

If he doesn't agree that nutrition and exercise should be the first

" strategy " for lowering cholesterol, fire him and find a new doctor.

 

Better yet, ask your doctor for his own LDL cholesterol numbers. If it

isn't under 100, find yourself a new doctor.

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Recent cholesterol guidelines are recommending that most people aim for

an LDL cholesterol level of 70 or lower. That's down from the previous

suggestion of 100. And of course, the number one recommended way to

lower your cholesterol, according to the popular press and

pharmaceutical companies, is to take statin drugs. The more you take the

better, they seem to be saying, and if your cholesterol isn't low enough

yet, it simply means you need to take more statin drugs. And by the way,

you're supposed to be taking these statin drugs for the rest of your

life, as many physicians have now ridiculously sworn to do.

 

 

 

But let's get back to reality for a second here -- high cholesterol is

not caused by a lack of statin drugs. High cholesterol is caused by

lifestyle choices, such as consuming certain foods and avoiding physical

exercise, and the only natural way to lower cholesterol also happens to

be a completely cost-free way to do so: by changing the foods you

purchase and consume and by engaging in regular physical exercise. Doing

so will cause your cholesterol levels to plummet on their own, without

needing dangerous prescription drugs.

 

The information I'll share with you here is exactly what I followed to

achieve an LDL cholesterol of 67 and HDL cholesterol of 62. Of course, I

wouldn't touch prescription drugs.

 

These results were achieved through nothing but nutrition, superfoods

and physical exercise.

 

There is little doubt that the recent guidelines about lowering

cholesterol were timed to coincide with the recent marketing push for

highly-profitable statin drugs;

in fact, six of the nine board members who issued the

" cholesterol-lowering " guidelines have 'financial ties' to the

pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these drugs, and yet they

failed to disclose these financial ties in their report, violating

" ethical " practices in medicine.

 

Good doctors will tell people with high cholesterol to alter their

lifestyle first. They will ask them about what they're eating and how

much exercise they're getting, and recommend that they change foods to

consume fewer cholesterol-raising foods and greater quantities of

cholesterol-lowering foods.

They will also recommend that their patients engage in frequent

cardiovascular exercise, which of course has a positive impact on

cholesterol.

 

Statin drugs should be the last resort, or a temporary treatment if used

at all. They can help give the patient temporary assistance while they

make lifestyle changes that will bring cholesterol back into balance on

their own. But a lifetime on statin drugs is not a " healthy " strategy.

 

Clearly the human body was not " designed " to survive on a daily intake

of prescription drugs. So how do you actually lower your cholesterol for

free? What's the nitty-gritty of the advice here?

 

Let's get down to it.

 

First thing to do is remove foods from your diet that are causing high

cholesterol in the first place. There are two ingredients to watch out

for here. Number one is hydrogenated oils, also known as partially

hydrogenated oils. These oils are found in most margarine products and

virtually all baked goods such as cookies, crackers, pastries, and so

on. They're even found in many salad dressings and soups, believe it or

not. You actually have to read the ingredients labels and make sure you

aren't ingesting hydrogenated oils.

 

It is the hydrogenation of these oils that makes them toxic to the human

body. They belong to a class of ingredients known as " metabolic

disruptors " .

 

This is a class of ingredients that interferes with normal human

metabolism and includes ingredients like sodium nitrite, MSG, aspartame,

and white flour.

 

The second ingredient to avoid if you want to keep your cholesterol down

is saturated animal fat -- the animal fat found in beef and other red

meats. Certainly you don't want to be eating lard or anything cooked

with lard, and you want to consider limiting or completely avoid

consuming red meat.

 

Other foods that will raise your bad cholesterol level include foods

made with unhealthy or cheap oils such as soybean oil. There's nothing

really wrong with soybean oil, it's just that it's not especially

healthy, and it's one of the cheapest oils out there, so most people get

far too much of it and not enough of the healthy oils. But we'll talk

about the good fats in a minute.

 

Finally, avoid processed foods. That includes any food that is

manufactured and comes in a pretty package. Virtually all processed

foods are unhealthy foods, and the more a food has been processed and

perverted from its original, natural form, the less healthy it's going

to be, and the more likely it will raise your LDL cholesterol.

 

Now let's talk about foods you can eat that will lower your LDL

cholesterol and raise your HDL cholesterol. These include the healthy

oils, sometimes called the " good fats " -- items such as omega-3 oils,

found in flaxseeds.

 

You can also get healthy oils by consuming extra-virgin olive oil, or by

eating nuts like macadamias, pecans, cashews, and almonds. Even peanut

oil is quite healthy for you, as long as you're not buying peanut butter

made with hydrogenated oils, as most peanut butter products are. Look

for the Adams brand peanut butter. It's the one where the oil has

separated from the rest of the peanut butter, and that's how you know it

has no " hydrogenated " oils.

 

Moderators Note: Here is one point where I disagree vehemently with this

author! Peanut oil is not one of your more healthy choices of oils.

 

In addition to peanut butter being " hydrogenated it is also " genetically

modified " , which makes the oil also a very unhealthy choice!!

 

The only peanut butter that I'm aware of that doesn't contain unhealthy

oils, (canola and other " refined " caustic oils) is maranatha peanut

butter. And this includes the organic varieties as well!!

 

www.maranathanutbutters.com

 

Best Regards,

JoAnn

 

Beyond the healthy fats, there are also a variety of groceries that can

help you lower your cholesterol levels, such as garlic, ginger, onions,

and basically any fruits and vegetables that are not " processed " or

overcooked.

 

Whole grains, such as kamut, pearled barley, " whole grain " oats, bulgur

or wheat berries can also help reduce cholesterol by giving you extra

" fiber " that " interferes " with the " absorption " of cholesterol-promoting

fats.

 

Moving on to the supplementation side, there are a great number of

nutritional supplements that can help you lower cholesterol naturally

without using drugs. One such nutritional supplement is red yeast rice,

an item that has been oppressed by the FDA. In fact, the FDA has

attempted to outlaw and regulate this substance, claiming it is a drug

because it lowers cholesterol so effectively.

 

In fact, red yeast rice was found to be more effective than statin drugs

in lowering cholesterol, and of course the FDA can't stand for anything

in the natural market to work so well, so they have to do their best to

wipe it out, or at least make it illegal to sell to consumers.

 

Garlic is another popular supplement with well-documented

cholesterol-lowering effects. In addition to eating raw garlic as part

of your diet, you can take garlic supplements that will further

accelerate your cholesterol decline.

 

Superfoods are also extremely helpful for lowering high cholesterol and

enhancing your overall body health. I talk quite a bit about superfoods.

These are items that I personally consume on a daily basis and that I

strongly recommend to others. Of course, my own LDL cholesterol is

considered extraordinarily low (67), so I do know what I'm talking about

here. My favorite superfoods include chlorella, spirulina, sea

vegetables, organic soy products such as soy milk, soy cheese, miso or

tofu, any sprouts, such as wheat grass, broccoli sprouts, barley grass

or clover sprouts, and also the supergrains such as quinoa, millet, and

kamut.

In addition, I recommend organic, whole-food vitamin supplements --

supplements that are made exclusively from whole-food sources and not

from " isolated " chemical vitamins, as well as coral calcium, which is an

outstanding source of not only calcium, but also magnesium, zinc, and

trace minerals from the ocean.

 

Just in case this hasn't been enough advice yet, let's bring in physical

exercise, because regular exercise is a crucial point when considering

cardiovascular health and cholesterol levels. By engaging in regular

physical exercise -- that is, at least 5 hours a week -- you can

dramatically reduce your bad cholesterol levels and lose weight at the

same time.

 

Of course, this probably isn't new information to you, since we all know

that exercise is good for us, but few people tend to consider exercise

as a cholesterol-lowering strategy. In reality, it's far more powerful

than any prescription drug in existence!

 

If you put all of this together, you have an unbeatable strategy that

actually costs you nothing. In fact, the foods mentioned here will save

you so much money over the brand-name foods you might have normally been

purchasing that you'll have plenty of money left over to purchase

superfood supplements.

 

For example, a pound of quinoa can be purchased for as little as three

or four dollars, and yet can provide a healthy whole grain for several

weeks of cooking.

Fresh

organic fruits and vegetables are extremely inexpensive compared to the

high markups on manufactured foods like breakfast cereals, dinner mixes,

frozen foods, and microwavable meals.

 

Your money will go much further when you're choosing healthy foods to

begin with. And of course the exercise part of this is free of charge,

or if you decide to join a gym, the monthly fees are inconsequential

compared to the cost of a lifetime of addiction to prescription drugs

and visits to your physician.

 

Now, with all that said, let me repeat that a good doctor -- that is, a

doctor that is genuinely concerned with your health and who is

well-informed about the relationships between nutrition (see related

ebook on nutrition) and disease -- would be telling you all of this in

the first place. A bad doctor, -- a doctor steeped in Western medicine

and brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry into ignoring nutrition

and focusing on drugs -- would recommend little more than taking statin

drugs, and would be happy to write you a couple of prescriptions and get

you out of his way so he can see the next patient.

 

It's easy to tell if you have a good doctor or a bad doctor by simply

visiting him or her and asking what you should do about your high

cholesterol. Their answer reveals their level of health wisdom.

 

In addition to good doctors and bad doctors, however, there are also

good patients and bad patients. What I mean by this is demonstrated in

the following example. Many people ask me how they can lower their

cholesterol naturally, and when they do, I typically tell them the same

thing that I've related here in this commentary. I tell them if you do

all of these things, if you avoid these foods, if you take these

supplements, if you eat these other foods, and if you engage in regular

physical exercise, your LDL cholesterol will drop naturally and will

maintain a level well below 70. They usually interrupt me at some point

in this conversation and say something similar to the following: " No,

what I meant was, how can I lower my cholesterol without actually doing

anything? "

 

For those people, statin drugs are the perfect answer. You don't have to

do anything but take statin drugs every day, pay the bill, and of

course, run the risk of damaging other organs in your body from a

lifetime of exposure to toxic prescription drugs such as statins. (These

drugs are now being shown to cause birth defects, by the way...)

 

Your sex hormone production will be disrupted, your liver function will

be impaired, and your body's ability to manufacture the natural levels

of cholesterol it needs to function properly will also be dramatically

lowered.

 

But if you don't want to do anything, and still desire a lower level of

cholesterol, and don't care about abusing your body, then statin drugs

are certainly one way to accomplish that.

 

The bottom line to all of this is that a good patient doesn't even need

to visit a doctor to lower their own cholesterol.

 

All they need to do is take responsibility for their health, start

pursuing a lifestyle with healthy foods, outstanding nutrition, and

frequent physical exercise, and then, if they were to ever visit a

doctor, that doctor would simply say, " Hey, your cholesterol is

perfectly normal. Good job. "

 

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