{"id":2837,"date":"2025-06-11T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:50:41","slug":"lowering-blood-ldl-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2837","title":{"rendered":"Lowering blood LDL-C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Effects of various treatments on human LDL-C levels.<br><br>Statins &#8212; can lower LDL-C 50% at highest doses.<br>Low dose statin lowers LDL-C &lt; 30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Phytosterols at dose of 1g &#8211; 3g \/ day lowers LDL-C by 6% &#8211; 12%. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/pmid\/40004982\/\">Phytosterol-Enriched Dietary Supplements for Lowering Plasma LDL-Cholesterol: Yes or No?<\/a>.<br><br>Similar results with resveratrol (a polyphenol), 10 mg &#8211; 100 mg\/day, lowers LDL-C by 5%.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9506025\/\">The Effect of Resveratrol on Blood Lipid Profile: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dietary fiber supplement (psyllium, viscous soluble fiber), 10g \/ day lowers LDL-C by 5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effects of various treatments on human LDL-C levels. Statins &#8212; can lower LDL-C 50% at highest doses.Low dose statin lowers LDL-C &lt; 30%. Phytosterols at dose of 1g &#8211; 3g \/ day lowers LDL-C by 6% &#8211; 12%. Phytosterol-Enriched Dietary Supplements for Lowering Plasma LDL-Cholesterol: Yes or No?. Similar results with resveratrol (a polyphenol), 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}