Whether you need to take cholesterol-lowering drugs or not depends not just on your total HDL and LDL cholesterol levels. Doctors prescribe cholesterol-lowering medicines for those at greatest overall risk of suffering from heart-related problems.

Flora pro.activ offers additional cholesterol-lowering benefits if you’re following a healthy diet and lifestyle to lower your cholesterol, or if you’re already using statins and fibrates as cholesterol-lowering medication.

Ask your doctor’s advice on all areas of your cholesterol-lowering treatment, including whether Flora pro.activ foods are suitable for you. Flora pro.activ foods may not be nutritionally appropriate for pregnant and breastfeeding women or children under five.

Flora pro.activ and medication

Flora pro.activ foods are designed to help you if you’re following a healthy diet and lifestyle to lower your cholesterol. This can include people with diabetes and those already using cholesterol-lowering medication.

Cholesterol medications such as statins or fibrates can lower bad (LDL) cholesterol by as much as 40%. Alhough this is may be the most effective way to lower LDL cholesterol, you can do other things as well to help.

In addition to medication, just moving to a healthy diet and lifestyle can lower cholesterol by 5%. Including plant sterol or stanol-enriched food such as Flora pro.activ can lower it by a further 10%. These three approaches lower cholesterol in different ways, so their combined effect is cumulative.