Has anyone tried natural alternatives for lowering cholesterol and blood pressure?
The “Natural way” is to try diet and lifestyle changes first. This includes reducing saturated fats in your diet, reducing the amount of salt you eat, generally eating healthily, limiting alcohol consumption and exercise. If you are overweight, it’s important you lose weight and if you smoke you need to stop. Sometimes this is enough to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol to a satisfactory level. However, sometimes it doesn’t and/or people may have other risk factors which mean they need to take Statins, etc. There is no evidence that other “natural food supplements” that you buy from Tesco, Waitrose, Holland & Barrett or even ASDA will be of any help.
