Getting an artery cleanse is a good preventive measure to ensure that your cardiovascular system is in the peak of health always. Ldl cholesterol makes its presence known in the form of a fatty substance known as arterial plaque.
If left unchecked, this could lead into coronary artery disease which is a leading cause of death in women over the age of 25 years.
It is caused by atherosclerosis.

Your chances of getting atherosclerosis are high if you have these risk factors:

High Blood Cholesterol Levels - meaning, high levels of bad cholesterol and low levels of good cholesterol

High Blood Presssure

High Levels of Triglycerides

Obesity

Smoking

Diabetes

Leading a Sedentary Life

High levels of CRP(C-Reactive Protein) in the blood is also an important factor to consider. High levels of this protein mean there is inflammation in your body.

Inflammation occurs as the body's response to injury and damage inflicted on the inner walls of the arteries triggers inflammation.

Consequently, this helps the atherosclerotic plaque already embedded in the inside walls, to grow even more.

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Kabin
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I use red rice yeast and have had my cholesterol lower 85 points! I want to note that My doctor tests my liver enzymes because it is a statin. So just because it is a natural remedy doesn't mean it is risk free.

Ray B- you are correct that red rice yeast has a statin in it. It is a natural molecule in red rice yeast, which also has other goody things. I believe that Pfizer based the medicine Lipitor on the small statin molecule found in red rice yeast. I am sure I could find a reference if anyone wanted it.

I have done some reading that suggests that some of these natural treatments (like niacin, CoQ, etc.) can counteract each other. I dodn't remember off the top of my head. So just a warning to be careful and do your homework.

BTW, it is possible to have high cholesterol (which your body makes and some people have a genetic predisposition to) and have normal or low blood sugar levels. It is much easier to burn sugar than it is to burn fat. That is why exercise is important.

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My husband adds cinnamon to apple sauce and eats that every day. Cinnamon I have read can help lower cholesterol and Red yeast rice, and something called Guggul. My husband used a red yeast rice, guggul combo! It works great!

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There is no easy answer. a) [Total] Cholesterol as primary risk is still called "the cholesterol hypothesis" by careful scientists because there's not enough proof to be called theory, let alone law. Other risk factors are also important, e.g. there are heart attacks in some with "healthy total cholesterol". b) HDL is a "healthy" conglomerate of cholesterol, LDL "lethal", and their ratio is more important than borderline-high (some say b-h = 200-239)'s lower end. c) Smaller LDL particle size is more risky. d) Proposals to make lower than 200 the cut-off bump against an increased risk of some psychoses. Also cell membranes can get too fluid, leading to various problems (some are lab-testable). d) A 1970s large study showed the healthiest people had cholesterol which nowadays would be considered moderately high. e) Censures and litigations resulting from the modern meaning of "standard of care" (what the majority of peers are doing) has led to the physician demanding the statin drug be taken when the number is above the reference range, even though the RR is a statistical guess, a line drawn through a curve, not a cut-off. f) If you're in medical records as not taking a prescribed medicine, that is "non-compliance", which may lead to insurance companies raising premiums or refusing coverage. The work-around is to use safer methods to get the cholesterol (or anything) into the reference range pronto so the drug-prescriber agrees there is no need for risky medicine.

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My doctor has put me on meds. because he said that my cholesterol is 201 and its to high. I always thought that 200 and under was good. I hate meds and really don't want to take them. The precp. is simvastatin 20 mg. Please let me know your comment.
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Correction to something I just submitted: The "last time I looked" I said bugged me so I went searching. Red rice yeast indeed does contain a statin, however it also has other components, so not fully as risky as statins in lowering cholesterol. Policosanol does inhibit HMGetc but one might not call it a statin since it does so in a different way than statins, however there is still the CoQ bit. In trials it seems to lower cholesterol with less risk than statins. Personally, in practice, I have seen both red rice yeast and policosanol raise liver enzymes in a few patients, though not as consistently as I see that liver cell poisoning with the usual drug statins.

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Biochemically, cholesterol is a not-very-efficient antioxidant, has a structure that looks like chicken-wire, and is a way of attaching to fat-soluble toxins (diluting and/or inactivation chemically). Clinical success in some patients supports all those -- improving antioxidant capacity and results in the blood (measuring various antioxidants and checking for lowering of peroxidized products), decreasing damage to arterial walls so the chicken-wire patch is not needed, and decreasing fat-soluble toxin load in the body (increasing detoxification capacity and decreasing toxin input then decreasing body load).

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Red rice yeast and policosinol, last time I checked, had HMGCoA reductase inhibition as the mechanism, which means they ARE statins. That's the same pathway that makes CoQ, an essential biochemical in the body for energy production (part of the respiratory chain in mitochondria). Statins also have the risk of poisoning liver cells so much that they leak liver enzymes into the blood (SGOT=AST, SGPT=ALT, even GGT).
Tocotrienols (delta and gamma thus far, last time I checked) inhibit the cholesterol synthesis pathway also, but after the branch that makes CoQ, so lowers cholesterol synthesis without affecting CoQ. NB the tocotrienols are NOT the common supplemented vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), which more and more is looking not very worthwhile, whereas the variety and common vitamin Es in various foods are looking more worthwhile.

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