Recently I have had several patients ask about how to manage their cholesterol level naturally without the statin drugs their doctors are recommending. In a recent newsletter, Alan Sears, MD, an alternative health doctor, lays out a plan that I would trust.
“When it comes to cholesterol, the truth is as long as your HDL (good cholesterol) is high enough, you have little if any risk of heart disease. And potentially no need for assistance from prescription meds.
The Framingham Heart Study has been ongoing since the 1940s. It’s considered the most reliable data on heart disease because it has no interference from drug companies.
It’s proven over the last 60 years that high levels of HDLs are directly related to a lower risk of heart disease.
Not only that, but it’s showed that raising HDL can reduce coronary disease regardless of LDL cholesterol.1 That’s because HDL removes plaque from your arteries. And it’s plaque buildup that really causes heart disease and heart attacks – not cholesterol.
In fact, if you want to beat heart disease without drugs, here are five ways to raise your HDL levels naturally:
- Niacin. Niacin has been found to raise HDL levels by as much as 24 percent. The best food sources of niacin are liver, chicken, beef, avocados, tomatoes and nuts. As always, stick with grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and organic produce and nuts. Or you can supplement. I recommend taking 500 mg of “sustained release” niacin a day.
- Restore omega-3s to your diet. Wild-caught fish, grass-fed beef, free-range, organic poultry, nuts, olives, eggs and avocados are all rich in “good” fats. And cod liver oil – the best omega-3 supplement – will boost your HDL levels naturally.
- Eat more protein, fewer carbohydrates. Replacing carbs with healthy proteins will lower your triglycerides and raise your HDL. The best protein sources are nuts, eggs, free-range poultry, grass-fed beef and wild-caught salmon.
- Challenge your heart with high-intensity, short-duration, progressively challenging exercises. For example, these types of workouts, like my PACE program, boost reserve capacity in your heart – critical for avoiding heart attacks – and raises HDL.
- Enjoy a good brew. Drinking a beer a day decreases cholesterol levels, increases antioxidants and reduces levels of fibrinogen, a clot-producing protein.
I’m telling how to raise your HDL because you deserve to know there are real alternatives to modern medicine practices. I want you to be empowered to make choices based on fact, not on information from commercials and media reports.
And I’m not alone. My colleagues at Natural Health Dossier are among the few who dare to speak the truth about the man-made causes of chronic disease and the many natural ways to prevent and cure them. They publish Natural Health Dossier which is full of advice on:
- how to turn your blood cells into a disease-cleansing army;
- the tell-tale signs that you’re developing diabetes and how to reverse your fate;
- why you’ll never have to worry about Alzheimer’s and other memory problems;
- how you can reduce your prostate problems…
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To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD
1 Castiglioni, A. and Neuman, W.R., “HDL Cholesterol: What is its true clinical significance?” Emergency Medicine Jan. 2003; 30-42
