Cholesterol Support
Heart health is a long game, and this shelf focuses on one specific corner of it: nutrients and botanicals associated with the maintenance of healthy cholesterol levels as part of an overall healthy diet. Plant sterols are the centrepiece — available as a mixable powder from New Roots and in softgels that pair them with omega-3 and CoQ10 — alongside Kyolic's aged garlic extract, red yeast rice with policosanol, and the citrus-derived Sytrinol.
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Plant sterols deserve their reputation as the approachable starting point. They're compounds found naturally in plants, and supplementing is simply a way to get more of them than a typical day of eating provides. New Roots offers them as a plain powder that stirs into food or drinks, while Preferred Nutrition's softgel combines plant sterols with omega-3 and CoQ10 in one capsule — a tidy option for shoppers already taking a fish-oil supplement who'd like to consolidate.
The rest of the shelf draws on different traditions. Kyolic's aged garlic extract — a long-standing name in heart-health circles — comes with lecithin in 90- and 180-capsule sizes. Nutridom pairs red yeast rice with policosanol, and Prairie Naturals' Sytrinol is derived from citrus and palm sources. These are quite different ingredients, and some (red yeast rice in particular) shouldn't be combined casually with certain medications — so before choosing, have a word with the Greenbrook pharmacy team or your health-care practitioner.