Reply #21: over the counter

[FDRLincoln]

The best over-the-counter stuff is fish oil supplements, which I take in coordination with the lipitor on my doctor's orders. Fish oil by itself dropped my cholesterol from 360 to 330, so it did help, just not enough.

Some people say that garlic supplements work as well but they didn't do anything for me.

I would do the following:

1) exercise.
2) reduce intake of refined sugars. I'm not a believer in 100% Atkins, but I do think that excess refined sugar and flour are a major problem.
3) fish oil supplements.
4) take an aspirin a day. helps prevent heart attacks.

If that doesn't work, then go the drug route, although continue doing the other stuff too since it is just plain healthy.

Above all, take it seriously. My dad had a quadruple bypass at 57 and a massive stroke at 64. He's spent the last 10 years crippled and speechless in a nursing home. If the statin drugs had come along 15 years earlier, he would likely have been spared much misery.