Comments on: Natural Strategies For Lowering Cholesterol

By: michael

michael — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:52:05 +0000

My own cholesterol level was a little high so I took green tea capsules, omega 3, vitamin c 500 mg, and vitamin b3 every day for six months. My level then reduced to normal.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:37:58 +0000

Dr Vern S Cherewatenko, was/is? a big advocate of Chromium as part of a therapy for type 2 diabetes.
The Diabetes Cure, Cherewatenko, V.S. & Perry, P; 1999 pub. Thorsons.
He’s a big advocate of an exercise regime too.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:49:42 +0000

Cathy, I too am sceptical about taking drugs prescribed by my doctor although there are conditions for which I would accept a prescription. My doctor prescribed simvastatin and I elected not to take it.
Natural remedies appear on the face of it to make more sense – especially if there is evidence of longstanding practice of use by cultures and civilisations without known side effects. Nonetheless, such optimism about the efficacy and possible consequences of the use of natural remedies should be tempered with some care.
To begin with a great many compounds as occur in nature are downright injurious to health. Even familiar foods contain compounds in trace quantities whose effects are regarded as being very powerful – think phytonutrients and anti-oxidents. Between these two facets lie many of the herbs, spices and remedies about which not a great deal is known, at least not in full scientific terms. Recognition of active constituents and the mechanisms by which they act is an emerging but young science. Some of the identified constituents are acknowledged as potent compounds in their own right and it follows that there may be many more potent compounds still yet unidentified. How would we know what may constitute an effective dose or what what may constitute a harmful dose?
If it is any concillation, I dust my home made oat museli breakfast cereal with ground cinnamon most days. Somewhere on the web I saw reference to cinnamon possibly helping to regulate blood glucose. But that exemplifies the trouble with search engines and the web. To some extent they are self-determining. Enter a Google search for ‘Cinnamon’ and ‘Glucose’ and you will return pages that link the two. The search says nothing for the truth or validity of the pages returned.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:01:23 +0000

I started taking Cinnamon capsules about 4 months ago because of my high cholesterol. The doctor wanted to put me on some type of medicine and I’m the type of person that would rather treat something with a natural remedy rather than treat something with a prescription drug. Before I started taking Cinnamon my cholesterol level was 245 and now it is at borderline level of 210. The longer I take the cinnamon the better my Cholesterol gets. You can find Cinnamon almost everywhere but I order mine through a company called HealthQuest Technologies. They have a program where I can get the cinnamon sent to my house every two months for 6 months at a time and they automatically charge my credit card every two months so I don’t have to worry about calling in and ordering it. Here is the number to call if you want to order some. 1-866-746-6247.