The good news is that, unlike other risk factors, you may be able to prevent high LDL levels or lower your LDL levels if they are already high. Although many cholesterol medications can lower LDL levels to varying degrees, your healthcare provider may want to use therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) to see how low your LDL can go before medication is …

Before you read the rest of this article, know that the use of prescribed drugs can be life-saving or highly beneficial on a short-term basis. The problems described in this article refer to the long-term, chronic (months or years), consumption of drugs well beyond their emergency or acute use. Furthermore, abruptly stopping all drugs can sometimes lead to catastrophic consequences. …

Cholesterol lowering statin drugs are a $26 billion a year industry in North America. The commitment by mainstream doctors to these drugs, in fact, is so powerful that many physicians themselves take statins, even though their cholesterol levels may be normal. In the past year alone, I have seen at least two dozen patients who were prescribed statins by other …