Anyone Familiar With Cholestoff? - High Cholesterol Message Board

georgiehopper · 07-25-2004, 04:51 PM

Its a product by "Nature-Made" and its comprised of plant sterols and stanins. Supposed to reduce the LDL cholesterol by stopping its absorption in your gut. I guess it wont do anything to the cholesterol already floating around in your system though.

In my quest for lower cholesterol, I picked up a bottle today....I'm supposed to see results in 30 days.

Anyone have any thoughts on this stuff?

clemons21 · 07-26-2004, 07:50 PM

yes i've used it for about 8 months or so and it works well, it lowered my total cholesterol by about 22% 336 to 259

clemons21 · 07-26-2004, 07:54 PM

in fact i can't see why everyone wouldn't take it just for the fact that you could eat more foods you like, and for a little tip take your pills with break fast and supper and then right before you go to bed take 1 pill. so 5 pills daily. they sell phytosterols last time i looked at vitaglo.c o m 100 pills for 5 bucks or so.

georgiehopper · 07-26-2004, 08:50 PM

I wonder if anyone's doctor recommends this stuff? Mine doesnt..in fact, he doesnt think anything but meds do much of anything at all. I'm using it and I hope it drops my cholesterol from 235 to around200

clemons21 · 07-27-2004, 05:53 PM

it should come close to that, the doctors never do because they assume it's to difficult for us. but if we just have to take one pill a day we might be able to remember that. also you have to remember that they see statins and other drugs as synthetic versions of natural elements even though they really aren't. next time you get your cholesterol checked let us know how much it worked i'm curious being that your overall cholesterol was much lower than mine