Less than 1/2 of all US persons have cholesterol in the normal range. This is a huge market for the drug companies but not without risk and side effects.
This episode shares readily available supplements that can improve cholesterol. Talk to your doctor about which may be right for you.
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[00:01] Welcome to another episode of the recharge podcast. In a previous episode I talked about the five health myths that are killing you, literally destroying your health and putting you at risk for significant problems like heart attack, stroke, and death. What I want to talk about is a little bit of a spin off from one of those areas that I discussed. I'm not going to rehash it all, but I want to just give you a few points. One of those is cholesterol and just because a person's cholesterol is within a normal range doesn't mean that they are number one healthy and number two, without risk. Unfortunately, recent data shows that really a minority of adults in the US actually have cholesterol levels where they are supposed to be about 46 percent, so less than half. The risk is that with abnormal cholesterol cardiovascular diseases go up including heart attacks. [00:49] Stroke, inflammation in a variety of other health issues rises and just because a number is normal, it doesn't mean it's necessarily healthy. I had a coaching client yesterday tell me that he just had his cholesterol tested. He's on a Statin and even though it's just slightly high at 2:20, his doctor was really happy that his, his good cholesterol, the hdl was nearly a hundred, which is an astronomically high number and even though the number is high and we we think that beyond 50 can confer some protection, it doesn't mean it wasn't necessarily a healthy. You can have good cholesterol that's dysfunctional as well and that's a more complicated discussion, but there are tests that your doctor can order to figure that out. What I wanted to talk about today is to give you some education and some information. I'm not telling you to take all these substances. [01:37] I just want to open your mind to understand that there are some non prescription drug waste and natural ways to actually improve your body's fat lip metabolism and I have a lot of patients, a lot of friends who have been on statins and while they are certainly beneficial in certain instances and conditions, they're not without side effects and risk. And so I'm just gonna kind of run through this list fairly quickly. I hope you jot down some notes and just use it as fuel, as, as food when you talked to your regular doctor or if you have a nutritionist you work with, ask about these specific ingredients, these, these nutraceuticals, if you will, these dietary products and how they might play into your situation. And so let's jump into these here. So the first is nice and it's actually a vitamin and a, you probably know that it can cause some flushing. [02:27] There are some forms of it that you can find that are really inexpensive that don't cause that, but these actually help decrease some of the bad sized bad cholesterol, lower the ldl as you likely know it. The second is Berberine, and this kind of helps with the way your body works with the receptors and triglycerides. Also, triglycerides as they rise, are increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. The next is the waxy substance of plant cell walls. They're called plant sterols, stanols. We might find them as phytosterols. Um, they are available and obviously the natural form - eating plants, but also in supplements. And it's been well established that these products, these phytosterols can actually reduce the total ldl to total bad cholesterol number. The next is fiber. There's different types of fiber, there's the insoluble fiber and then there's the soluble fiber. So what soluble fiber does is it actually helps remove the cholesterol by binding it in, excreting it in your intestines, so basically unload it out in the toilet, and you can find soluble fiber obviously in foods specifically like psyllium, oats and barley. [03:39] And these also help absorb water into the intestine that helped with stool bulk. The next is flavonoids, and these are also a plant based type derivatives. And they are shown to actually make your, your good cholesterol. The hdl potentially work better. Red Yeast Rice happens to be one of my favorites, uh, and it, it can actually reduce the bad cholesterol, the Ldl by maybe 20 up to 30 percent. And also can help bring triglyceride levels down as well. A flaxseed obviously rich in omega three fatty acids which ties together with the next one. Omega3 fatty acids themselves, which include EPA and DHA. I'm not going to get into the specific differences between those two, but they can. Those two products can actually help bring triglycerides down and also improve some of the ldl particles that are inflammatory. And so the overall goal is to decrease the cardiovascular risk. [04:32] So I hope you found this helpful. I know I kind of ran through it fast. My goal wasn't to give you a specific recipe because this is an educational piece in your situation is likely different, particularly if you have other medications on board or other health issues or health concerns. So I just encourage you to talk to your practitioner about which, if any of these might be beneficial in your situation if you're somebody who struggles with cholesterol or is on a stat and then maybe having some problems with it. So I hope you found this knowledge helpful. And as always, if this podcast in any way, shape or form has been interesting or potentially beneficial to you, I hope that you subscribe on the apple podcasts or wherever you listen and, uh, share review. It helps us show get found. As always, the show notes and transcript will be available on the blog at [inaudible] dot com. Have a fantastic week. Be well.
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