Reducing cholesterol in 2 -3 months

[Billyboybad]

Hi . I recently had a fasting blood test and got my cholesterol down from 7 to 6.0 . It was previously at about 5.0. My doc said I should go on statins. I prefer to try a 3 month diet plan . He’s not so keen as I own a fast food business. Lol . My tri glycerides result was 6.25 . Hdl was 1.42 . Suppose ldl must be about 4.0 then .

[Billyboybad]

Also I am on 5 mg of ramipril blood pressure tablets . I aim to increase exercise daily and eat more veg like beetroot, carrots , etc and apples

[sos007 Ambassador]

Your elevated cholesterol values are a function of an inflammatory diet and lifestyle. Cholesterol is a symptom of inflammation. Cholesterol is produced by the liver as needed to repair damage to your body's cellular tissue, including blood vessels.

Collagen can also be used to repair tissue damage, but you need vitamin C to produce collagen. Since humans don't synthesize vitamin C internally like other animals, we have to ingest it.

Dosage in prescriptions is essential to ensure success, yet when it comes to vitamins, dosage is always recommended at minimal levels.

To give your body the resources to repair its damage, you need high-dose vitamin C therapy. This means at least 1,000 mg, 3 times per day, ideally 15 minutes before eating. You also need the same quantity of an amino acid supplement called Lysine which together with Vitamin C produces collagen. Both are natural, non-toxic substances.

To reduce inflammation in your body - you must have a healthier diet and lifestyle.

This means:

- eliminate all fried foods

- eliminate sugar, soft drinks, sweets and all simple carbohydrate foods (white flour products) as well as white rice, and white potatoes.

- reduce alcohol intake to no more than once per day and ensure that you drink red wine only.

- reduce your portion of animal proteins to 3 oz and only have it in one of your 3 meals. The rest of the day focus on nuts, nut butter, beans, chick peas, lentils, and plenty of other greens and vegetables. Fruits are also good especially apples, oranges and blueberries.

- walk briskly each day for 30 minutes.

If you are disciplined enough to make such a lifestyle change you won't have to go on statins. Furthermore, statins may not even help you and they have plenty of bad side effects.

If you don't change your lifestyle, it will one day catch up to you and either kill (heart attack, stroke) you on the spot or create chronic diseases like diabetes, kidney failure, cancer and others associated with excess body weight. If you survive a heart attack you might even need open heart surgery for a bypass operation.

You've been warned. If you don't change, it's on YOU.