Anyone here battled Cholesterol successfully without medication?

Just put mountains of flora pro-active on everything.

I have.

I hadn't taken my risparidone, so no medication.

I got rid of 15 stones of ugly fat by throwing him under a bus.

Those plant sterols are a con. They may be as harmful as cholesterol!

dietry changes will not affect the level too much unless you have a VERY unhealthy diet.

regular exercise has brought mine down a lot - GP is saying I should get on the statins but its still coming down.

will make a decision once it levels off.

buy some decent running shoes and get out there.

Am I the only who doesn't have need to ever go to a doctors. change your butchers ffs.

Speedy, Cholesterol is a silent killer as it builds up over many years. I'm slightly higher than the upper limit and overdue another test. 

Boozing is my vice as I eat pretty healthily and exercise moderately.

I used to cycle 20 miles a day to work so was surprised when my cholesterol reading was 6.9

Doctor gave me a sheet which covered food to avoid, food to eat etc

I cut out all the rubbish, crisps, cheese, biscuits, rich sauces, cream etcand got it down to 4.4 in 12 months

Felt a lot better overall for cutting out the rubbish - had a lot more energy

Great stuff lads. Much appreciated.

The fightback starts with a training run tomorrow, just as soon as I've had a pot of Yorkshire Tea and a big plate of hot crumpets smothered in Lurpak for breakfast.

This is meant to be vaguely helpful.  I am/was a sort of organic chemist.  Ethanol is an excellent organic solvent.  I've never had high cholesterol though I've often had high blood-ethanol levels.  It does make sense, sort-of.



Government Warning: you may be exchanging one problem for another.

Alun,unless your v over weight and very unfit excerise will barely touch your cholesterol,though it wont do it or your general health any harm naturally.

Ease on your dairy and animal fats,take an uber safe and healthy supplement(v cheap to) like leicithin daily.It's not hard to reduce say a 7 reading to a 5.6 after a few months on the above "regime" and if your anyhting like a 5.5 anyway dont even bother.....6/7 years ago this WAS the govt approved "safety level" till they reaslised its the only thing they can do cheaply!

You gotta remember though the whole cholestrol thing is a hugely overblown minor contributory health issue only sexed up by govts due to very very cheap drugs and ease of managability.Seems every yr gp's get a further reduced cholesterol "target".If your fat/high blood pressure/hereditary heart trouble/unfit/poor diet etc THEN it becomes a standard worthwhile but minor issue thats well worth reducing in the genreal scale of health benefits.

Zola

It gets reduced by exercise (as such) mainly due to the weigth loss and general healthier lifestyle/improved diet etc people adopt while exercising.If you'd been v unfit well increasing cirulation could also help,though exercise actuallty increases your good cholesterol(hdl) and reduces your bad (ldl) though the overall reading "total figure" ie 5.2 etc wouldnt be much different at all.

If you've reduced cholesterol by 2 points by excercise alone with no diet or lifetsyle changes and werernt woufully unfit in the 1st place you've done extremely well.Age is also a factor,if your 30 rather than 50 a huge factor.Though your Adonis like stature proves you MUST be doing something right.

I wish i had time to discuss atherogenic burdens etc, and LDL particle size reduction but i dont and it's all a load of contradictory horsesh1t whichever way you look at it.

Simply put no 2 men on earth will metabolize/digest lipids the same.

I believe there's even a school of thought that believes m@sturbation reduces total serum cholesterol!

Genuine good luck. 

Check the death-ages (non-accidental) of your last 2 generations.  Add 5-10 years for better nutrition/health-care - and relax.  Or not.

Simply put no 2 men on earth will metabolize/digest lipids the same.

true and not true, there's no great variations at a fundamental level, but environmentals will cause wide variations in reactions.
Various types of stress versus stress reduction (eg exercise, sleep etc) is one part of the equation. Nutritious food and antioxidants versus toxic is another, there are many factors and it's mostly common sense.
A combination of all these factors will dictate an individuals state or reaction.
As far as exercise goes 30 minutes walking a day and some strength training is good, over exercising at some point becomes counter productive.

Nice one Dessie.

High cholesterol is correlated with heart disease. Note, correlation is not the same as causation. Please think about that.

Cholesterol comes in two parts, HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol)

The bad cholesterol also comes in two parts one good LDL, and one bad VLDL.

It is the ratio between good cholesterol HDL, and bad cholesterol LDL which doctors are interested in when they prescribe statins. 
Yet they don't test whether your LDL is the good LDL or the bad VLDL.
They simply assume it's all LDL is bad cholesterol.

It is the production of VLDL which is the major concern, that and triglycerides.

You should seek to reduce these by cutting back sharply on fructose and alcohol to start with.

The sugar we get from fruit is fructose. Added sugar in food products is usually fructose.