Policosanol Improves Cardiovascular Health Ah, policosanol - what a wonderful substance! It comes from Hawaii (Cuba too, but let's stay with Hawaii, shall we?). It's as safe and effective a nutritional supplement as there is. It's extracted from sugar cane, but it's not a sugar - it's an alcohol. Actually, it's a mixture of eight alcohols (all solids), and in that it has something oddly in common with its nemesis, cholesterol. Cholesterol is also a solid alcohol, but of a very different kind. You've often heard cholesterol described as a steroid, and it is that. Technically, it's a steroid alcohol, or sterol, and there you are. Policosanol Lowers Cholesterol In your body, policosanol reduces cholesterol levels, by a complex mechanism we need not go into, so be grateful for that. It reduces your total cholesterol mainly by reducing your LDL-cholesterol ("bad cholesterol"), which is the dominant kind in your bloodstream. At the same time, however - and this is really neat - it increases your HDL-cholesterol ("good cholesterol"), which exists in smaller amounts. It also reduces your triglycerides, which is the technical term for fats. (Together, triglycerides and fatty substances such as cholesterol are called lipids.)
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