Combat Heart Disease A balanced view of Cholesterol When you look at the biochemical role of cholesterol in the human body, it hardly looks like a villain. Your liver and brain make about 1.5 grams of this waxy fat-like substance everyday to insure you have enough of it. Cholesterol is so vital, in fact, that if we all didn't make it ourselves, it would be a multi-billion dollar industry. Obviously there is nothing inherently wrong with cholesterol. Yet it clearly implicated in heart disease.
Vegetable proteins raise cholesterol less than animal proteins.
Eating cold-water fish also lowers cholesterol. Vitamin C is required to convert cholesterol into bile acids, which carry cholesterol out of the body 1,000 - 6,000 mg per day. Niacin improves circulation and lowers cholesterol. The herbs ginseng, hawthorn berries, and chapparel are reported to lower cholesterol. Six grams, twice daily.