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Alternative Medications
Alternative medications are those medicines or treatments that are not considered a conventional method of treatment. Alternative medications can include herbal...
Category: Treatments

Medication Advice
Although healthy, permanent lifestyle changes, such as changes to your diet, exercise program, stress management, and quitting smoking, are all great ways to lower...
Category: Treatments

8 Facts
Interested in finding out more about cholesterol and cholesterol levels? Read on! 1. Your liver produces your blood cholesterol, and it produces all the...
Category: Basic Info

A Good Sleep
One of the most important ways to lower and maintain healthy cholesterol levels is by engaging in an aerobic exercise program (or the exercise program that will...
Category: Treatments

Appropriate Foods
You know that the food choices you make can greatly affect your cholesterol levels in both positive and negative ways; however, it is difficult to assess the safety...
Category: Cholesterol Diet

Speaking With Your Doctor
If you suspect you have high cholesterol levels, or want to know if you are at risk for high cholesterol and all that can accompany it (high blood pressure, heart...
Category: Basic Info

Exercise Routines
Along with quitting smoking and excess consumption of alcohol, as well as making healthy dietary changes, getting enough physical activity is a great way to help...
Category: Treatments

Peripheral Artery Disease
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the most common form of peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Those affected by PAD are at much greater risk for atherosclerosis,...
Category: Related Conditions

Fast Foods
Admit it - there are times when you are driving home from a late night at the office and dreading the thought of going home to prepare a healthy, home-cooked meal.
Category: Cholesterol Diet

Corticosteroids
Corticosteroids are steroid hormones produced by the adrenal cortex or the synthetic equivalent. Our bodies produce hormones that are similar to cortisone; however,...
Category: Risk Factors

Anabolic Steroids
There are several different kinds of steroids. There are corticosteroids (which can help relieve inflammation) and sex hormones (including estrogen, progesterone,...
Category: Risk Factors

Whole Grains
We know that diet changes are often what we need in order to achieve and maintain healthy cholesterol levels. Our bodies do not produce vitamin C on their own so we...
Category: Treatments

Vitamin C
Vitamin C—the one we reach for when we have the flu or just the sniffles. Its antioxidants counter free radicals, working to protect cells and recycle other...
Category: Treatments

Nephrotic Syndrome
Nephrotic syndrome, which is present in both adults and children, is a potentially dangerous condition that occurs when the glomeruli (blood vessels that filter...
Category: Related Conditions


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