Best OTC medicine for higher cholesterol?

Everything you’ve been taught about cholesterol is wrong... check This thread out and it has a cholesterol section with links to videos and articles.

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Best OTC medicine for higher cholesterol?
Donated blood the other day and saw my total cholesterol was 270.

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The best medicine is to not care about it because it doesn't matter. At the very least, if you insist on being concerned about cholesterol, have a full panel done that will actually tell you. If you have a lot of the bad stuff then, then likely you will need to cut down on the carbs.

Before meds I would work on diet and exercise (increase in cardio). Increase your leafy vegetables and fruits, start eating rolled oats for breakfast, and green tea once or twice a day. I try to have a salad 2-3 times a week for lunch with spinach and variety of other vegetables with a very simple salad dressing of quality olive oil and vinegar. Salmon once or twice a week or at least a fish oil supplement helps too.

But like was mentioned, go get a full panel done and discuss with your family practitioner about nutrition and what you can do pre-meds.

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I'm curious to know what you think these do to help cholesterol. Cardio is exercise, but it doesn't inherently have better effects of controlling cholesterol than any other exercise.

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National Institute of Health: exercise and cholesterol

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The evidence suggests that a moderate-intensity exercise programme will be effective in increasing HDL cholesterol. This will have a positive impact upon atherosclerosis (hardening of artery walls through plaque and fat accumulation [13]) via HDL cholesterol-facilitated removal of LDL cholesterol. To directly reduce LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels, however, the intensity of aerobic exercise must be increased—something that may not be possible in individuals with a limited exercise capacity or other risk factors.

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Now, what I do find interesting in that article is that they also showed reduction in cholesterol with strength training as well; however, there has been little research into the combination of both.

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The evidence presented above demonstrates the effectiveness of both aerobic exercise and resistance training in controlling and improving cholesterol levels through various modes, frequencies, intensities and durations of exercise, in different populations. There is limited literature that has examined the two modalities combined,

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Harvard Green Tea Review

The bottom line is that cholesterol simply isn't a problem. There is no reason to go on meds for this.