How to Lower Your Cholesterol Naturally

Believe it or not, cholesterol is good for you—at least to a point. Without it, your body wouldn’t be able to manufacture vitamin D, some types of hormones, or bile acid to digest your food. However, the body requires far less cholesterol than typically comes packaged in a fast food burger and fries to accomplish these tasks. In fact, too much cholesterol can clog your plumbing—literally.

The arteries function as little lifelines to deliver blood and oxygen to vital organs, such as the heart. When a high level of cholesterol is present, the circulatory system has to carry it through these routes along with blood and oxygen. If you think of this task as being burdened by trying to push small clumps of wax through a network of tiny tunnels, then it’s easy to see how trouble develops. Sometimes, the cholesterol can’t complete the journey and gets stuck. Cholesterol deposits form and less blood circulates because artery passageways become blocked.

The ABCs of Understanding Cholesterol Numbers

There are different kinds of cholesterol, but they all travel through the body on vehicles known as lipoproteins. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is known as the ‘good’ kind of cholesterol because they taxi more harmful forms of cholesterol out of the arteries and blood and back to the liver.

The ‘bad’ kind of cholesterol is low-density lipoprotein (LDL), so labeled since this is the stuff most responsible for forming cholesterol plaque.

Then there are triglycerides. These are a type of fat that are stored in the body as the result of taking in more calories than can be used.

When your doctor checks your cholesterol, however, he or she is actually looking at different number sets to get a complete cholesterol picture. For women, total cholesterol should be 200 mg/dL or less, with LDL cholesterol being 100 mg/dL or less and HDL cholesterol of 55 mg/dL or less.

Aside from managing your weight through a healthy diet and regular exercise, there are several natural agents that may help to lower your cholesterol numbers, as well as reduce your risk of heart disease.

For example, policosanol is a natural substance obtained from sugar cane that deters the lipid peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which has the sweet effect of lowering total cholesterol. Policosanol also stimulates the production of a special protein that helps to remove LDL cholesterol from the blood.

The extracts of grape seed and artichoke leaf also demonstrate cholesterol-lowering properties due to the presence of proanthocyanidins and cynarin, respectively. Forget about trying to pronounce these chemical helpers and just remember what they do instead—they increase bile production to remove excess cholesterol from the body and lower LDL cholesterol levels.

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