Best Cholesterol Supplements What are the best cholesterol lowering supplements? Actually the first question really is, are there supplements that can actually lower your blood cholesterol level? The scientific answer is, yes, there are supplements that can do that.
Your next question should be, are all the supplements that can lower cholesterol safe to use? And the answer to that is, no, they’re not all safe; some can actually do significant damage to your body, particularly your liver.
The other thing that always comes up is, not all the supplements that claim to lower cholesterol can actually lower cholesterol. This is where I lose some faith in the natural health products industry, where there are companies that make supplements that claim they can do things when in fact, they cannot and the product is totally meaningless.
You need someone to separate the fact from fiction, and that’s where I come in. when it comes to lowering cholesterol, there are two outstanding supplements that are safe and proven to lower cholesterol and they’re gum guggul and artichoke leaf extract.
Gum guggul is derived from the mukul myrrh tree. In India they discovered that this resin, which we call guggul or guggul …