Sorry to disagree, but...........
The FIRST thing a patient with hyperlipidemia gets is a low fat/low chol diet. Of course, they don't follow it, but they get it anyway. There are well established guidelines for prescribing statins, the NIH even has an algorithm on their website to determine which patient is a candidate. Long story short---if you have coronary artery disease, you NEED a statin, every study in the world shows that. NOT red rice yeast, NOT some naturopathic concoction, but a statin. Period. If your LDL is over 160 with 0 or 1 risk factor, or over 130 with 2 or more risk factors , you NEED a statin (or else you'll be needing a cardiologist). Everyone else can eat healthy and take whatever snake oil they get sold on
As far as other "natural" remedies go, whatever works for you is fine. But I'll stand by my challenge for anyone to come up with a LEGITIMATE study proving their value. Even the lipoflavenoids I just mentioned have no LEGITIMATE study showing any value.
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