Lowering cholesterol with natural supplements - What is safe?

@mrsj1
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

I 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.

I can relate. I am super sensitive/allergic to so many things. Statins are one of many. I have been grateful to have a current medication regimen that keeps my angina at bay after a NSTEMI.
I am doing a modified low carb Mediterranean diet to help. Been doing low carb for 33 years. My docs at Johns Hopkins said it saved my life but it doesn’t lower cholesterol even when low fat. In my humble opinion, cholesterol is just one of many multi-system risks factors. Insulin resistance has an even higher risk level or HR, so my advice is to do your best and don’t sweat the small stuff. Sending some cyber hugs!!! 🤗

Eat a diet strong on fish!!! Of course, fruits and vegetables and keep all the junk food out of your cupboards and that should do it. I discovered this while I was housing a Ukrainian refugee because her diet was strong on fish. And after 10 years of trying everything in the book, even the fish oil pills nothing worked like introducing more fish. When she left the cholesterol went back up because the fish came out of my diet. So I went back on the fish and it lowered right back down. It only took three months in each case to get my stubborn 240 cholesterol down to 190.