I’ve been taking grape seed extract anti-oxidants since 1996. My bad cholesterol dropped 20 points and my good cholesterol zoomed 20 twenty points. My doctor says that he’s never seen an adult male with HDL above 56. Mine routinely tests in the 60 to 65 range.
I have a family history of hypercholesterolemia and family heart attacks in members between 40 and 50. I had a scan a few months ago (I’m 47) and they were shocked to report that I have no blockages in my coronary system.
The Cardioliogist told me that whatever it is I’m doing to keep doing it.
Along with Vitamin D, grape based antioxidants (like Resveratrol) have found great favor in the scientific community as of late. Some of the few supplements that seem to really have an easily demonstrable positive effect.
Niacin also has an extremely good effect on the level and balance of cholesterol, presuming that you don’t mind the skin flushing. Taking quercetin about 45 minutes - 1 hours before the niacin, and taking the niacin on a full stomach, will ameliorate the effects.
I seriously question “studies” that damn “anti-oxidants.” Not because the anti-oxidants are the Fountain of Youth, but because usually those studies are funded by drug companies or medical schools that have an interest in keeping people dependent upon doctors and prescription drugs. That’s NOT to say that any particular study must be wrong because I don’t like the conclusion, only that one must first look at who (or what institution) has funded a study before further examining the methods used to determine its validity.