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Lowering cholesterol with natural supplements - What is safe?
My girlfriend was telling me about Bergamot natural supplement for lowering cholesterol. Has anyone tried this? I have been on a low dose statin for 3 months and are getting muscel/joint pain. Looking for a natural alternative?? Currently taking Coq10 and red yeast rice as well as other supplements.
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I’m sorry I didn’t seem to get answer regarding strongest ingredient
@agb , just be careful. The brain NEEDS cholesterol. Too low isn't good, either.
Be careful that it doesn’t interact with other drugs you are taking Ask your dr or pharmacist
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2 ReactionsI have not had any success using natural supplements to lower cholesterol. I am on Repatha and Nexletol. Nexletol works great…and no statin side effects. It uses a process one step above what statins impact so no side effects for me.
Talk to your doctor if they are willing to listen.
Bonne journée.
@vaniag
I experienced severe acute pancreatitus and was hospitalized for a week back in 2005. My attending physicians basically eliminated everything in my meds, diet, everything one at a time and the conclusion was that Lipitor must be the cause. So I stopped taking it and went looking for a more natural alternative and my research said that red yeast rice was working well for others with high cholesterol. So I hurried down to my local health food store and bought a bottle of red yeast rice capsules. Within a week my pancreatitus started up again but this time I was able to head it off before it got serious.
Now what? I just accepted that I was prone to high cholesterol and all the diet mods and exercise was all I could do. I didn't know that it could be hereditary and the alternatives to statins hadn't been available as of yet so I just accepted it not knowing for sure what caused the first attack until I dug into the backgrounds of statin drug development and there it was in black and white! Statin drugs are derived synthetically from the same basic chemicals found in red yeast rice!
Statin drug sensitivity confirmed.
Now I'm on Repatha and it's been a year with zero side effects so I guess I might be one of the lucky ones. Keeping my fingers crossed.
BTW, I had three stents last year before starting on Repatha due to calcium buildup on cholesterol plaque which resulted in a mild heart attack.