What You Need to Know about Lowering Cholesterol without Medication

High cholesterol is something of a medical bogey-man. People are scared of it, without understanding what it is or why it isn’t as big a problem as they think.

There are two kinds of cholesterol – LDL and HDL. LDL is the bad cholesterol, the stuff you don’t want to have. HDL is the good cholesterol; in fact, many people don’t have enough HDL. It gets a bit more complicated than that – for instance LDL that is in small clumps is worse than LDL that is in large clumps, but doctors usually don’t test to determine how large the LDL is, so people just need to assume they have dangerous LDL.

The thing is, to a point, the dangers of cholesterol are blown out of proportion. While it is true that people with high cholesterol tend to have more heart problems; it is also true that almost 75% of people with high cholesterol can control it without medication, and without turning their lives upside-down

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