32yo male diagnosed with high cholesterol of 8. how can it be reduced without medication?

Question

healthy eater, non smoker, weekend drinker only, no family history..any lifestyle tips, cholesterol reducing foods or natural medications would be a great help.

Answer 1

Avoid oily food and be a vegetarian and eat plenty of garlic and consume horse gram prepared dishes because horse gram is an excellent reducer of cholesterol.

Answer 2

I don't blame you for wanting to try a natural supplement in lieu of a prescription drug for high cholesterol. I'm opposed to statin drugs used to lower cholesterol, since they have so many side effects. Try no-flush niacin, policosinol or Cholest, which can be found in your neighborhood pharmacy or health food store. These supplements take a little longer than the drugs, but have been proven to lower cholesterol. I'm a bit confused by the number you've posted. Are you certain that's the reading your doctor gave you? High cholesterol is generally in the 200-250 range or higher. I've never heard of a 8. reading.

Answer 3

Psyllium Husk you get it at the supermarkets in australia
or its in Metamucil but the plain psyllium husk is much cheaper plus cut out junk food, just buy cooked fish if he is fish & chip mad & have a salad with the fish & he wont miss the chips much
prawns crabs seafood sticks etc are very bad for high cholesterol

Answer 4

not sure what you mean high blood pressure of 8? that is not a number used for blood pressure measuring. anything over 140/90 would be concidered high. if you are doing all the right things, diet exercise, stress management, no smoking then meds might be needed. i would not put it off to long to get it under control. the longer it is high the more damage it is doing to your cardio vascular system.

Answer 5

8 is not a real number. a high cholesterol number would be great than 200.

Answer 6

You're not in the US, so the lab isn't using a US scale, but the scale that is used in the rest of the world.

Eliminate all animal products from your diet, as well as any prepared foods, and in the oils that you do use, emphasize the monounsaturated ones, such as olive and canola.

Answer 7

i would say, watch you diet & excercise.

Look for foods low in cholesterol & try looking online for low cholesterol recipes. they are easy to find.

Answer 8

you should take natural food supplements.i have used it myself and its great.i took help of divya who is a health consultant from bangalore and she provided me the best set of supplements which is helping me big time.
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Answer 9

Please don't take this as a joke. Quaker oat meal and cheerios. Read the box it's no joke.