Can You Lower Cholesterol Naturally With Red Yeast Rice?
More than almost any other field, health-minded consumers want natural alternatives to pharmaceutical interventions. I’m not a doctor, I don’t play one on the internet and I’m not giving medical advice but I do understand the allure of helping your body work better by itself while at the same time taking every opportunity that you can to improve your health particularly around hot button topics like high cholesterol.
You can find evidence to support either point of view. That the cholesterol in your food, provided that it comes from healthy sources like wild-caught fish and grass-fed beef, doesn’t impact the cholesterol in your blood which is largely driven by inflammation, genetics, gut health, body fat, stress, and lack of sleep. Cardiovascular disease is a combination of high cholesterol, high inflammation, high blood triglycerides, and metabolic damage. (1,2)
The alternative point of view is that any increase in LDL cholesterol and its particles above 200 mg/dl or a drop in HDL cholesterol is a bad sign and could potentially put you at risk of cardiovascular disease.(3)
The waters get muddied further when we discuss what to do about our cholesterol levels.
There are some, through genetics, who seem to be at increased cardiovascular risk when they consume dairy, eggs…
