My general<\/u> protocol is:<\/p>\n
1) Krill Oil<\/u>: 2g\/day or Fish Oil<\/u>: 3g\/day (less expensive than Krill Oil)
\n (Brands: Thorne for Krill Oil, Metagenics for Fish Oil)<\/p>\n
2) Policosanol<\/u>: 1\/day
\n (Brand: Metagenics Cholarest)<\/p>\n
3) Niacinamide<\/u>: 1000mg\/day
\n (Brand: Metagenics Alapars)<\/p>\n
4) Folic Acid\/B12<\/u>: 600 mcg of B12
\n (Brand: Professional Complementary Health Formulas Homocysteine Spray)<\/p>\n
If cholesterol levels do not normalize within 3 months, add:
\n5) Red Yeast Rice<\/u>: 1200 mg w\/ CoQ10 30 mg (minimum). Preferred: w\/ CoQ10, 100 mg\/day.
\n (Brand: Doctor\u2019s Best)<\/p>\n
NOTE: Red Yeast Rice can affect the liver, so yearly liver function tests are recommended.<\/p>\n
Although I highly recommend not using statin drugs, if you are taking a statin drug for reducing hyperlipidemia, the anti-oxidant CoQ10 is definitely needed<\/strong>. See brief article about statin drug use and CoQ10<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My general protocol is: 1) Krill Oil: 2g\/day or Fish Oil: 3g\/day (less expensive than Krill Oil) (Brands: Thorne for Krill Oil, Metagenics for Fish Oil) 2) Policosanol: 1\/day (Brand: Metagenics Cholarest) 3) Niacinamide: 1000mg\/day (Brand: Metagenics Alapars) 4) Folic Acid\/B12: 600 mcg of B12 (Brand: Professional Complementary Health Formulas Homocysteine Spray) If cholesterol levels […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[188,183,178,187,181,182,186,304,184,305,185,180,179],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyperlipid","tag-b12","tag-fish-oil","tag-high-cholesterol","tag-homocysteine","tag-hyperlipidemia","tag-krill-oil","tag-niacin","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-policosanol","tag-prescription-drugs","tag-red-yeast-rice","tag-statin-drugs","tag-statins","category-59-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQuRZ-aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}