Lowering LDL Cholesterol Without Drugs
Beyond statins, try exercise, diet, and a supplement or two
By Adam Voiland
Posted February 6, 2008
Joseph Keenan, a cardiology researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, has a love-hate relationship with statins. On the one hand, he prescribes them to many patients. On the other, he can't use them to control his own dangerously high cholesterol. Like many of the 25 percent or so of patients prescribed statins who abandon them within six months, Keenan has had unpleasant side effects, such as muscle spasms, and blood tests indicate muscle damage. "It came as a shock," he says of finding out he'd have to do without his Lipitor.
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