What foods can lower blood lipids after taking medicine for high blood lipids?

Patients with high blood lipids also need to adjust their diet and daily routine during treatment in the hospital. In terms of diet, focus on light and lipid-lowering foods, and try to do some exercise after eating to help the spleen and stomach work. In traditional Chinese medicine dietetics, there are some foods that can have a good effect in lowering blood lipids, but patients need to eat them regularly to be effective. Next, let’s learn together.

Foods to treat high cholesterol

1. Lingzhi

Ganoderma lucidum used alone or in combination with lipid-lowering drugs can lower serum cholesterol, triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein, and increase high-density lipoprotein. At the same time, it can also reduce whole blood viscosity and plasma viscosity and improve blood rheology disorders. The hepatoprotective effect of Ganoderma lucidum can prevent or alleviate liver damage caused by chemical synthetic lipid-regulating drugs. Ganoderma lucidum's ability to regulate blood lipids is the basis of its protective effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems.

2. Fish

Fish contains very low levels of saturated fat, especially cold-water fish from the deep sea, which contains large amounts of W-3 fatty acids. Research by American scientists has shown that people who take W-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA supplements) have lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels, lower blood viscosity, and also have the effect of lowering blood pressure.

3. Fruits and vegetables

Eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, and water-soluble fiber can help lower cholesterol. Soluble fiber (such as whole wheat bran) can prevent constipation

, but it does not help lower cholesterol. Foods containing water-soluble fiber include beans, dates, apples, figs, prunes, broccoli, oat bran, etc. Dried plums contain 60% soluble pectin, soybeans and their products have the same effect. Konjac foods also contain a lot of water-soluble fiber.

4. Garlic

American researchers have found that eating half a clove of garlic (a whole clove is better) a day can help some people lower their cholesterol by 10% and also lower blood pressure. The healthy active ingredient in garlic is alliin. Taking 900 mg of odorless garlic capsules daily has the same effect as eating garlic.

5. Onion

Onions can also lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and have the effect of reducing blood viscosity, which is quite similar to the drug aspirin.

6. Fish Oil

EPA contained in Omega-3 in fish oil is known as the "blood vessel scavenger". Its functions are: 1. It is the main component for producing prostaglandins.

2. Regulate blood lipids, reduce the concentration of low-density lipoprotein in the blood, and increase the concentration of high-density lipoprotein.

3. Anti-platelet aggregation, reduce blood viscosity, enhance the health of the circulatory system, prevent thrombosis, improve symptoms such as insufficient blood supply to the brain, dizziness and headache, and prevent cerebral thrombosis and cerebral infarction.

4. Enhance cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health and kidney function.