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Will Exercise And Diet Control Help To Reduce Cholesterol Levels?

I get very fatigued when I get home from a desk job. My doctor told me to use Lipitor ! Since I have a high level to almost too high cholesterol. But I refrain from using Lipitor! Since I noticed my heart rate spiked after forgetting to take it for 2 days! So I decided to completely stop using it! Now I feel less fatigued, and all I had to do was walk, exercise, watch my food. Why do doctors like to always prescribed medicines, when they could have simply said : to go exercise and stay away from fast food?
Tue, 3 Feb 2015
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Life style changes do reduce cholesterol – but the reduction is only modest / they cannot get to target levels. High levels are unlikely to be normalised. Because, it is also manufactured in the liver
If one drug has side effects, one can change over to a different drug – preferably, a different class of drug.
Cholesterol is risk factor for heart and is silent - So,reduce aggressively...

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Will Exercise And Diet Control Help To Reduce Cholesterol Levels?

Welcome to HCM Life style changes do reduce cholesterol – but the reduction is only modest / they cannot get to target levels. High levels are unlikely to be normalised. Because, it is also manufactured in the liver If one drug has side effects, one can change over to a different drug – preferably, a different class of drug. Cholesterol is risk factor for heart and is silent - So,reduce aggressively... Regards