Dr. Róisín Colleran

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The Pat Kenny Show · Dr. Róisín Colleran on heart health & cholesterol · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

it's really a focus on lifestyle interventions.

And that's also a big focus of these guidelines, trying to get it down by natural means.

And I tell people it's about 80% diet.

The exercise is helpful.

Getting the weight down is the biggest thing, but also, you know, keeping saturated fats to a minimum.

You know, things like red meat, not eating them more than maybe once per week.

Fresh, you know, oily fish has polyunsaturated fatty acids.

White fish is lean, focusing on the bottom of the food pyramid, the Mediterranean diet, fresh fruit and vegetables, the browner versions of bread, pasta, etc.

And that really will help to get it down.

It may not fully do the job because it's a genetic component.

So I was supposed to address the first part.

It's a very good question.

Patients will often ask, well, now it's normal, can I come off it?

And I say to people, it's not really a course of antibiotics where you treat an infection, it's gone, you stop the antibiotic.

With the cholesterol, if it's now normal, it generally means, and it depends on how normal, but it generally means you need that amount of cholesterol to maintain it.

Now, there are very defined cutoffs for different levels of risk, which, of course, I don't know in the

So it is all those diet things I've mentioned and the exercise.

There is, from the health food store, there is one natural therapy that does genuinely help to bring down LDL, which is red rice yeast.

So for people without a compelling reason for a statin, for example, we haven't documented plaque in any arterial bed or they haven't had a cardiovascular event, it would be reasonable, assuming cholesterol isn't through the roof, to try that.

Yeah, and you know, I suppose 65 and female, often after menopause for women, our cholesterol panel changes to what we call a more atherogenic cholesterol profile.

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