OTC products to lower cholesterol/raise HDL

**johnsomebody** · 12-01-2004, 01:35 PM

Hey bros.

I posted a tread earlier about what must be the biggest longterm threat to health from gear use -elevated cholesterol levels and trigycerides and lowered HDL levels. You can get more info at the thread: http://67.18.108.244//showthread.php...ht=cholesterol

Besides seriously cutting sat fats from your diet as much as possible while on a cycle, and diet stuff like water soluble fiber (like oatmeal and barley) there are OTC products that research shows can have a positive effect on lipids.

I've read a lot of info on something called policosanol and, much as I hate to schill a product (and they're not even paying me to do it!), Walgreen's has come out with a policosanol-based product called Advocate. The one I got ($30) includes two mail-in cholesterol test kits, which anybody on gear ought to be using to monitor themselves anyway, so it's a good deal.

If you cycle regularly this kind of thing could save your life or at least get your lipid levels down to a level that won't damage your health longterm.

**Duck of Death** · 12-01-2004, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by johnsomebody

Hey bros.

I posted a tread earlier about what must be the biggest longterm threat to health from gear use -elevated cholesterol levels and trigycerides and lowered HDL levels. You can get more info at the thread: http://67.18.108.244//showthread.php...ht=cholesterol

Besides seriously cutting sat fats from your diet as much as possible while on a cycle, and diet stuff like water soluble fiber (like oatmeal and barley) there are OTC products that research shows can have a positive effect on lipids.

I've read a lot of info on something called policosanol and, much as I hate to schill a product (and they're not even paying me to do it!), Walgreen's has come out with a policosanol-based product called Advocate. The one I got ($30) includes two mail-in cholesterol test kits, which anybody on gear ought to be using to monitor themselves anyway, so it's a good deal.

If you cycle regularly this kind of thing could save your life or at least get your lipid levels down to a level that won't damage your health longterm.

..I've got to look into this....I also have high total cholesterol (hereditary) and time-release niacin has been effective for me. Non-time release niacin will flush you as red as a lobster!!

**Pale Horse** · 12-01-2004, 02:19 PM

I was gonna say time release niacin too but i need to check this out it's hereditary for me too.

**johnsomebody** · 12-01-2004, 06:47 PM

Actually that Walgreen's product has Niacin as well -the "non-flush" kind. But the crucial ingredient is supposed to be policosanol, as far as being most effective.