I’m 30 years old, 5 foot 8 inches, 110 pounds. I walk several miles a week, and don’t eat a lot of junk food. And despite looking healthy, not being overweight, and getting regular exercise, I have high cholesterol. When you normally think of someone who has high cholesterol, you picture someone who is probably overweight, does little to no exercise, and eats ice cream every night, not to mention lots of other fatty foods. And while its true that diet, weight, and your physical activity do have some effect on this, there are 3 factors you can’t control – age, gender, and heredity. Your cholesterol levels tend to rise as you get older. This is especially for women after menopause. Additionally, high cholesterol can run in families – as it does in mine.

There are two main ways to lower your cholesterol:

Lifestyle changes – a cholesterol-lowering diet, exercise, and weight management

Drug Treatment–if cholesterol-lowering drugs are needed, they are used together with lifestyle changes

Natural products – there are products like Cholestapro which have FDA approved ingredients (plant sterols) that are clinically proven to reduce cholesterol by up to %24. This also reduces your risk of heart disease. (Side note – heart disease is the #1 killer of women – not breast cancer!) Cholestapro is a heart healthy alternative to prescription medication.

Why choose a natural product over a prescription medication? Prescriptions often come with unwanted side effects – like liver damage and skeletal muscle damage. Many drug manufactors don’t disclose the potential harm that these medications can cause. Other possible side effects of statin drugs include nausea, diarrhea and constipation, and they have even caused severe memory and mental awareness problems in some patients. The drugs may also lead to a potentially fatal muscle-wasting disease called rhabdomyolysis in patients with certain pre-existing medical conditions. In this potentially deadly disease, muscle cells are destroyed and released into the bloodstream and can cause patients to suffer kidney failure.

Do you want to risk all of THAT to lower your chance at heart disease? With a natural product, you don’t have to take on new problems to fix your high cholesterol!

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