Cardiologist reveals 9 simple ways to lower cholesterol without statins

Somewhere along the way, high cholesterol stopped sounding like a problem and started sounding like a given, one more number everyone expects to go up with age. Maybe that’s why statins, the go-to drug for lowering it, have become the best-selling prescription in the US, taken by nearly 30 million people each year. But cholesterol itself was never the villain. It’s a fat our bodies rely on, to build cells, make vitamin D, and produce hormones like oestrogen and testosterone. The danger lies in imbalance: when LDL, the so-called “bad” cholesterol, begins to outpace HDL, the “good” one that helps clear it from our arteries. Those invisible buildups quietly narrow blood vessels, setting the stage for heart disease and stroke long before symptoms appear. According to NHS guidelines, total