Decreasing Cholesterol drugs and diet

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · Nov 4, 2022 · 13m

Decreasing cholesterol: drugs and diet

There is a persistent belief that lifestyle can take care of all cholesterol problems. Lifestyle can make things worse, but once things are worse, it cannot make things better.

Once you have disease, or cholesterol is higher, you need treatment often beyond lifestyle management.

This distresses many people, who wish to have control over their fate.

High cholesterol is one of the main causes of heart attacks, strokes, and peripheral vascular disease. You can lower cholesterol through diet and exercise by as much as 15 percent. Lifestyle changes are the…