I'm 50 yr. old female. Have always been pretty healthy. Just recently stopped smoking. Going on 8 weeks now. And I have high blood pressure that I take medicine for. My doctor wants me to take more medicine for the cholesterol. I don't want to be on a bunch of medicine. What can I do to bring it down naturally? Any wisdom out there on this? I would very interested to hear from experience. Thanks
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just found out I have high cholesterol?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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experience says....take the meds...dieting alone, exercise alone..will NOT do it....
Posted 1 year ago # -
This cholesterol must have been triggered by your smoking habit. Since you told you stopped it you should then change your food habit because according to Indian Ayurveda there is no best medicine than food .
Posted 1 year ago # -
Believe it or not, yours is an easy fix.
Both the high blood pressure and the high cholesterol are caused by dehydration. You may not "feel" dehydrated, but that's what makes dehydration such a dangerous animal. You're misinformed on how to treat the simple symptoms and when the problems gets serious, then you're convinced that you need a doctor and medication. If people would learn how to recognize and treat their minor symptoms, they could avoid the major issues.
Doctors tell their patients to "drink plenty of fluids". But this is advice is too generalized, and people will opt for anything that has taste over plain water. This is a mistake. The body needs water to function properly - it won't accept anything else. And, although the soft drinks, coffee, energy drinks and other alternatives contain water, they are actually a diuretic - they pull water OUT of you.
Combine this with the water lost through respiration and kidney function and we're talking a lot of water that isn't being replaced. Then people wonder why they get sick.
The body gives you signals that it needs water - thirst is a last resort. By the time you feel thirsty, dehydration has already started taking it effect on the cells. Things like headache, runny nose, constipation, heartburn and other minor "nuisances" are passed off as nothing. They're treated with over-the-counter chemicals that only address the symptoms, but not the cause (lack of water).
Eventually, the lack of water is going to have a more serious effect if it isn't corrected. High blood pressure and high cholesterol are two of the problems that are caused by chronic dehydration.
When you don't drink enough water, the cells don't get the nutrients that water and salt are supposed to deliver to them. They begin to dry up and malfunction. To prevent this, the body will sometimes borrow water to inject into the cells from the blood, which is made up of 94% water. This causes the arteries to constrict because there is less fluid to keep them open fully. In addition, with less fluid, the blood thickens. This causes the heart to have to exert more pressure to pump the blood, and this additional pressure is measured as hypertension.
When the blood thickens, it becomes acidic and toxic, which causes small tears and abrasions on the interior of the artery walls. The body then produces cholesterol, which acts like a band-aid to protect the walls of the arteries until repairs can be made. If the problem is corrected by drinking more water, the arteries will be repaired and the cholesterol, acids and toxins will be flushed out. If left unchecked, the build-up may eventually need surgical intervention.
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you didn't say how long it has been high -understandable that you're 'comfort eating' since stopping smoking ?
Take the medication - it just stops your cholesterol getting out of control and in my experience has no side effects
Fresh fruit and veg, meat with low fat content, finding acceptable low fat choices re butter, cheese, milk etc will lower cholesterol
Watch out for saturated fats - they are in most biscuits and cookies, and in almost all processed foods and meats
best of luck !Posted 1 year ago # -
Yes.... cholesterol medicine is pretty nasty stuff too - it can permanently damage the muscles in your legs. Doctors push this crap on everybody.
One idea is to read the Atkins diet book. The Atkins diet, if you follow it rigorously, will bring blood pressure down and normalize your cholesterol numbers. Makes you feel great too. I've done it for the past 10 years. The biggest benefit to me at first was that I lost a lot of "arthritis" pain as well - and the weight loss was good, of course.
Don't panic on the cholesterol - it's not the evil killer that modern treatment dogma makes out. You got to figure that drug companies make TRILLIONS of fat bucks scaring the crap out of people and getting them on the drugs permanently.
Get a used copy of Atkins - "New Diet Revolution" from Amazon. It's an interesting read. There's a whole different way of feeding yourself and looking at food - and the diet changes your body chemistry very nicely.
For treating yourself with natural stuff, Atkins wrote a terribly interesting book called "Vita-Nutrient Solution" which you can also get used off of Amazon.
For other books about the Atkins-style diets, "Carbohydrate Addict's Diet" and "Protein Power". Both of these you can get used for cheap - and they'll give you a background in the whole concept of this thing.
It's great! Triglycerides drop the fastest - they can be "normal" within 2 weeks of starting the diet.
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