Smart Tips - Lower Your Cholesterol Naturally by Dr. Allen Peters
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Dr. Allen Peters, Healthy Aging and Culinary Medicine Expert at http://NourishingWellness.com, shares his smart tip about 5 ways to lower your cholesterol naturally, without conventional medications.
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Do you worry about your cholesterol creeping up and you want to avoid using the pharmaceutical, anti-cholesterol drugs, such as statin drugs, with the side effects that they have? Well, my smart tip is going to teach you how to regulate and lower your cholesterol naturally. Before I get to my "Smart Tips" on how to lower and regulate cholesterol naturally, I want to make one very important point and that is cholesterol is a vitally important substance for every single cell in your body. It is your friend, not your foe. It is used for many normal functions. It is important in controlling inflammation, as a response to inflammation. It is not inflammatory itself. This is very misunderstood. Cholesterol is also the substrate for all your sex hormones: for your cortisol, for your Vitamin D, for Coenzyme Q10, which is an essential energy molecule for your entire body. If you have been told by your doctor or you have done some investigating yourself and you feel that your cholesterol level is definitely too high, then here are the natural things that you can do. Number one, exercise. Get that fat off. Your fat creates cholesterol itself. Get down to your ideal body weight. Number two, avoid grains and sugars and too much alcohol. This can raise your triglyceride level. Number three, enjoy three to four servings a day of high fiber foods such as vegetables, fruits and flax seed meal. Number four, have several servings of healthy fats every day. Healthy fats means nuts, avocado, flax seed meal or olive oil. Or fish, preferably wild-caught fish, or grass-fed beef. These are all high in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for all your membranes and help lower your cholesterol. And by the way, you can even enjoy a couple of eggs a week, including the yolks. Lastly, there are many natural supplements that you can use, that will also lower your cholesterol before you have to resort to a statin drug. One of them is Red Yeast Rice, which is a natural statin drug, the basis of all the statin drugs, it's just not so concentrated so it's unlikely to have so many side effects. And I always recommend you use Coenzyme Q10 if you are taking a statin drug or if you're even taking Red Yeast Rice because these deplete the Coenzyme Q10, as I mentioned earlier. And then you can take, besides eating fish, fish oil and we almost always recommend that to everybody and it does help lower your cholesterol. The last one that I go to before going to a statin drug is Niacin. Niacin is a natural B vitamin, B3 which is wonderful for lowering cholesterol and raising your HDL which is your good cholesterol. So between all of these things that I have mentioned to you today, it's very very rare that I have to resort to using an anti-cholesterol statin drug. Enjoy wonderful food and lowering your cholesterol naturally. I'm Dr. Allen Peters, expert in healthy aging and culinary medicine. Please visit our website at www.NourishingWellness.com and we will send you a free report on healthy aging!