Chad,
I asked the significant other over the weekend (she's a physician and into holistic health but trained and works as a clinical physician/surgeon) about high cholesterol. She said that you should probably start with the medication along with doing all of the other things you mentioned and others mentioned. Then get restested after a couple months. If your level has dropped you can go off the medication, continue with the lifestyle changes, and see what happens.

She stated that the cholesterol meds are great. There are no side effects and they work well.

Good luck!

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