If you have high cholesterol, you should educate yourself about natural options that are available to you, to help lower your cholesterol, before diving head first into taking prescription medications…which are generally loaded with side effects, some of which can be dangerous and even fatal.

There are various options available to you, to help lower your cholesterol naturally and reduce or eliminate your risk of heart disease. You just need to arm yourself with right information.

You probably know by now that cholesterol is made in liver and your liver makes ALL cholesterol that your body needs! Yes, you heard right...your liver makes ALL cholesterol that your body needs!

With that being said, major way that you get high cholesterol, is through mouth! Because your liver makes ALL cholesterol that your body needs, excess cholesterol must come through your mouth, from foods you eat.

Lowering your cholesterol is as simple as making some changes to certain habits that you’ve formed. The first place to start is by looking at kinds of foods you eat. Let’s face it, if we were a bit more careful with what we ate, we most likely wouldn’t have high cholesterol levels.

In saying that, following statement would be true…”you’re as healthy as what you eat”.

And isn’t it amazing that something so simple could cure a major world health problem?

You see, food and what you eat should be foundation of any healthy lifestyle. Food was meant to be enjoyed, and there are hundreds of delicious foods that are low in fat and cholesterol. The availability of low-fat and non-fat foods in supermarkets makes your “health journey” more enjoyable.

By changing your diet, you can reduce several of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Most important among these is lowering your LDL or ‘bad’ cholesterol levels. By making some changes and improving what you eat, you can reduce your risk of heart attack by around 20% to 30%. That’s right…20% to 30%!

There are many benefits, apart from just lowering your cholesterol, that can be enjoyed by improving your diet…these include:

•Lowering high blood pressure •Reducing body fat •Improving your blood sugar count •Reducing risk of a blood clot •etc

I remember looking at my fingernails one night several years ago and wondering, “When did my nails stop being smooth?”

Because I had been worried about ongoing problems, I hadn’t been paying attention to myself and as stress mounted, manicures were last thing on my mind.

Perhaps because it seemed appropriate that hurdle-high ridges had appeared on my fingernails, matching mounting hurdles in my life, I wondered if ridges could be related to health.

It would take nearly two years for me to learn that ridges were a result of low vitamin B12; not a “B12 deficiency” exactly, because at 241, my serum blood level was in low normal range and nothing to worry about, according to my doctor.

But after my feet and hands were frequently tingling and numb, my memory was a thing of past, my balance was dependant on light, and I was depressed - which seemed reasonable under circumstances – I went to a new doctor and in course of answering his questions, mentioned that my mother had B12 problems.

That was it, he said, adding that I would need B12 shots for rest of my life and he’d have his nurse show me how to inject myself.