Green Peas To Control Cholesterol? You Must Be Nuts!

I'd like to share with you this true confession of an 81 year old woman who suffered with her statin medications, and the "crazy" advice from a friend that took her off the statins and vastly improved her cholesterol readings.

She was on statin drugs Lipitor, and later Crestor, for several years. All she got out of the medications were very insignificant improvements on her HDL and LDL readings, and a lot of headaches. [Remember, headache is one of the side effects of statins]


She happened to tell a nutritionist friend of her predicament, who gave, what seems to her, to be the craziest advice she had received for her condition.

The advice:

Take three green peas [or three navy beans] before bedtime, in lieu of the statin medication.

Of course, she initially ignored the advice because she thought it was just plain crazy. But sometime later, she decided to give it a try as a last resort as the headaches were becoming more unbearable. [read: The Great Cholesterol Lie]

The results:

Within a week, her headaches were gone. In seven months, her cholesterol readings dropped from 6.4 mmol/L [high risk] to 5.2 mmol/L [borderline high risk]. A year later, her readings dropped even more. On her 81st birthday [Jan 2011], she had low risk readings of LDL 2.7 mmol/L and HDL 3.4 mmol/L. The green pea regimen proved to be a more highly effective, safe, and economical alternative to statins.

She never told her doctor about her shift from statins to peas, so her doctor might have thought that the vast improvement in her cholesterol readings were due to the statin drug he prescribed to her. But she did give the same "crazy advice" to several people. Six of those who followed her advice had equally successful results.

So, don't be afraid to step out of the box, especially when all you get are a load of side effects and just a very slight improvement in your condition. There are "crazy" alternatives out there which have been shown to do much, much better for your health and pocket. [read: The Great Cholesterol Lie]