VITAMIN C & CHOLESTEROL
If you have read my post Anti-Aging Supplementation Options post, you may very well already be taking 2000 mg of vitamin C a day. That should be plenty for cholesterol control purposes.
It has been shown that the higher the level of vitamin C in the blood, the lower the total cholesterol count and the higher the HDL (the good cholesterol) is (High plasma vitamin C associated with high plasma HDL- and HDL2 cholesterol, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 60, 100-105).
In particular, for every increase of .5 mg/dl in vitamin C plasma content, there was a corresponding increase in HDL of 2.1 mg/dl in men and 14.9 mg/dl in women.
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