Cholesterol Down

Ten Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in Four Weeks - Without Prescription Drugs

By: Janet Bond Brill PhD RD LDN

Narrated by: Virginia Wolf

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

If you are one of the nearly 100 million Americans struggling with high cholesterol, then Dr. Janet Brill offers you a revolutionary new plan for taking control of your health - without the risks of statin drugs.

With Dr. Brill's breakthrough Cholesterol Down Plan, you simply add nine "miracle foods" to your regular diet and 30 minutes of walking to your daily routine. That's all. This straightforward and easy-to-follow program can lower your LDL ("bad") cholesterol by as much as 47 percent in just four weeks.

Cholesterol Down explains Dr. Brill's 10-point plan as well as the science behind it. You'll learn how each miracle food affects LDL cholesterol and how the foods work together for maximum effect as well as:

• How eating whole grains helps reduce LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream
• Why antioxidants keep plaque from building up in your arteries
• Why walking just 30 minutes a day lowers "bad" cholesterol and cuts dangerous belly fat

With everything you need to stay focused on the plan, including a daily checklist, a six-month chart for racking LDL cholesterol changes, tools for assessing your risk level for cardiovascular disease, sample weekly menus, and even heart-healthy recipes, Cholesterol Down is the safe and effective alternative or complement to statin drugs.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2006 Janet Brill, PhD; foreword copyright 2006 by Jennifer H. Mieres, MD (P)2019 Tantor

Just the information that I needed

Statins are a tool and not the solution. This is a potential control mechanism

Love it

This audible was so great! So many helpful tools. Unfortunately my cholesterol is high and i refuse to get on a statin so i am definitely going to incorporate these steps into my daily routine and then retest and see if my results are better! Thank you

Excellent book!

Thank you for taking the time to research and write a book on such an important topic! I have listened to your book and I am listening to it again. I’ve started most of the steps. They are easy to follow!

Awesome book

In January, I had to have my appendix taken out and while doing the CT scan of my chest they found a small amount of plaque in my arteries. I got a stress test and a cholesterol test done in July. I passed the stress test with flying colors but I failed my cholesterol test. Overall my cholesterol was 206, triglycerides was 455, LDL was 94. Not good.
So my doctor gave me lipitor but I knew I needed to do something different. I completely changed how I worked out and I bought Cholesterol Down from audible. I listened, followed it to a T and retook my blood test and the results are freaking shocking ( too me ):

Cholesterol- July 205 Sept - 111

Triglycerides- July 455 Sept - 129

LDL- July - 94 Sept - 52

Your book helped turn my life around, I eat a boring diet but it came from your book and it works:

Breakfast - Steel Cut Oatmeal w banana and flaxseed

Snack - Quest bar / cantaloupe/ watermelon

Lunch - Bowl of kashi almond cereal with flaxseed with cashew milk.

Snack - Almonds and Quest bar

Dinner - Salmon or Chicken, green peas or beans

I also eat Greek yogurt twice a day.

On weekends, I eat guacamole and flaxseed blue corn chips.

If you need to lower your cholesterol, this book will help you.

Just what I needed

I really liked the way this book was organized. I was able to start the process as I moved through the book.

It works, but it's A LOT of pills

This is a good book and it did actually help my cholesterol. Total 243 --> 218, Triglycerides 151 --> 98, LDL 161 --> 141. The downside of it is that if you follow the pill regiment it's about 23 PILLS PER DAY which is a crazy amount. I don't want to be on Lipitor and all of its potential side effects, but 1 pill vs 23 is a big difference. I followed the diet mostly, but it can also be a challenge eating that much of all those things.

Truly works to reduce cholesterol

This book has helped me tremendously in reducing my cholesterol. In the last six months my overall cholesterol has gone from 218 to 168 down 50 points. My LDL went from 136 to 107 which was an almost 30 point drop. My doctor was threatening putting me on medicine if I didn’t lower my cholesterol so I downloaded this book to take action about it. I cut out red meat such as hamburgers, steak, French fries and Oreo cookies as well and ate more fish and salads in my diet. I lost 15 pounds and found that if I daily ate oatmeal, flax seed, Metamucil, almonds, a red delicious apple, soy protein milk, garlic and walked the dog for 30 minutes that is what worked to lower my cholesterol. My advice would be stay consistent and committed to it and you will feel healthier and see the benefits pretty quickly.

I recommend this book

Straight forward and actually some of the steps in this book to follow for lowering cholesterol are steps that I take now. Some of the foods in this book I’m currently eating and my cholesterol lowered without medication. This was prior to listening to this book. I purchased out of curiosity, but overall a very good book.

Clear and practical information

Great information on how to lower cholesterol that allows you to add every day foods in without having to give up things you enjoy.

very simple steps to follow

most of the book is the common sense way to reduce cholesterol. having somebody read those to you make your decision to follow the steps easier. very good book highly recommend