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Big Bucks Being Spent to Educate and Reduce Cholesterol
A 350% increase over the last 10 years in the amount of money being spent on research to help people reduce cholesterol could be seen as a sign of the times. With this kind of increase it is clear that more people need to reduce cholesterol and there are large sums of money being spent by drug manufacturers and researchers in an effort to beat this precursor to serious heart disease. This number includes research in all categories of hyperlipidemia, including high cholesterol and other unsafe lipid conditions.
Medicare recipients accounted for a 250% increase in the use of statin drugs to reduce cholesterol between 1996 and 2003. Statin drugs, such as Lipitor and Zocor are top selling drugs used to reduce cholesterol. The problem with most drugs is that they have side effects that can range from mild nausea to severe muscle pain - a sign of kidney trouble. Still in 2003, statin drugs accounted for 90% of sales of medications used to treat high cholesterol.
In order to reduce cholesterol effectively, most drugs target limiting the production of cholesterol by the body. Others still are designed to impact the absorption of cholesterol from foods or that made by the liver in order to lower total cholesterol. To be effective in managing cholesterol, it is important not to focus on only lowering the bad, LDL, cholesterol, but on raising the good, HDL, cholesterol. The ratio between these numbers will have a better impact on efforts to reduce cholesterol.
Natural alternatives to medication exist and are more effective than one might think in the fight to reduce cholesterol. A diet that is low in fat and cholesterol along with the use of specific supplements can create the same reactions in the body as drug therapies, but without the side effects. To learn more about how to reduce cholesterol naturally, get The 60-Day Prescription Free Cholesterol Cure.
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