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What drugs can lower your cholesterol?
There are several different types (or classes) of drugs that help lower cholesterol. The most important, by far, are the statins.
Can you lower your cholesterol with lifestyle changes?
Improving your diet (by eating less fat overall, especially less animal fat, and increasing the amount of high fiber carbohydrate) can certainly lower your cholesterol level to some extent.
What is a normal cholesterol level?
The answer to this question keeps changing. An international group of experts meets every few years to re-examine the scientific evidence and come up with recommended levels for different people.
Where does cholesterol come from?
You can eat cholesterol in your diet. There is a lot of cholesterol in egg yolks and animal fat, for example, so eating a diet high in animal
fat can increase your cholesterol level.
Why is cholesterol bad for you?
There is so much talk on television and other media about drugs to lower cholesterol these days that you might imagine cholesterol is poisonous and that any amount of it in your body or in your blood is bad for you.