Lower Cholesterol and Blood Pressure Through Food, One Step at a Time
Most people get handed a lab report, a prescription, and about four minutes of explanation. Then they go home and search the internet, where every site says something different.
I’m Lisa Nelson, a Registered Dietitian. I’ve been teaching heart health nutrition since 1999. I also manage my own borderline high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease using the same steps I teach here.
What you’ll find on this site is specific. Not “eat better” or “cut back on salt,” but which foods, how much, and what to expect from each change. Everything here is built to work alongside your doctor.
Start where you are
Two free courses to get the basics in place, and the complete program when you want every step in detail.
Pick one right now. If you’re dealing with both high cholesterol and high blood pressure, choose whichever concerns you most, bookmark this page, and come back for the second one later. There’s some overlap between the two anyway, since several steps that lower blood pressure also lower cholesterol.
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The four supplements I’d start with
Food first, always. When a supplement is worth considering, my dispensary carries practitioner-grade products, most of which aren’t sold direct to consumers, with the reasoning behind each one.
View the Heart Health Foundation protocol
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