Dear Blane,

I cannot tell for sure what mechanism it is the makes lecithin helpful for cholesterol for some.

However, it seems that lecithin breaks down fat. It made a night and day difference for me when I had chronic mastitis. I think lecithin was keeping the fat in the milk from clogging the milk ducts, I assume by breaking it down.

If I were trying to reduce cholesterol, I would probably try lecithin given my good experience with it for something else. I also think daily consumption of oatmeal or oatstraw tea may help.

My mother in law stayed off cholesterol meds for years by eating 2 raw carrots each day!

~Mama to Many~

Hello Blane,

First off, you need to take granulated lecithin, the liquid lecithin supplement will only overload the liver. My understanding of Ted's lecithin remedy is, the granulated lecithin will bind with toxic oils affecting the liver, these oils, inc heated vegetable oils and canola, contain heavy metals, so when the lecithin binds with the oils, it removes not only the toxic oils but also the heavy metals. Food sources of lecithin are pastured, runny egg yolks and dandelion. Perhaps this is why dandelion is known as a great detoxer. I do not know how or if lecithin acts to lower cholesterol, other than by improving the functioning capacity of a major organ, the liver, the filter for toxins. Another clue, the skin is the avenue for toxins to exit the body, when the liver pathway is congested, one will get boils, pimples etc.

I have read great things about many herbs, including easily accessible fennel seed brewed into tea, for lowering cholesterol.

Best to you

So, by all indications, the lecithin somehow got absorbed into your system for the mastitis? Good to know. I'm trying to figure out the best way to ingest it - I was mixing it with my raw oatmeal each morning (consumed with kefir, cinnamon, flax seeds, walnut, and dried fruit), but then thought that it might be binding up the good fats I was getting from that so now I'm taking it with some brewed green tea.

I read years ago in a pamphlet that Dr. Mercola put out to eat two raw carrots a day - tried it for two weeks, and my cholesterol count dropped thirty points. Don't remember what it did for my triglycerides, which is where my problem is. Might need to retest that.

I am using granulated sunflower lecithin - just wondering where it's doing the work. Whether in the bowel to strip out the fat there or in the bloodstream somehow.