Home > Cholesterol > Treatment of High Cholesterol Get the Flash Player to see this player. Rate: (Click the stars to rate) Published on Oct 05, 2008 by SRBergmann, Views: 5893 Treatment of high cholesterol is important to help lower your risk of heart attack and stroke. The first line of treatment is diet and exercise. A low fat, low cholesterol diet will lower your LDL or bad cholesterol. Exercise can help to raise your HDL, the good cholesterol. If blood cholesterol is still elevated, physicians will commonly use medication to lower cholesterol. The most common medication used are the statins, which lower production of cholesterol from the liver. I am dieting and exercising as well as taking my crestor, still LDL is high, trying to get mor info. myachin 12.2 years ago I am trying Crestor and Niaspam to reduce my high cholesterol. I have heard some negative things about statins and would like to help lower my risk of heart disease with diet and exercise alone. I know low fat diet is the way to go and I am willing to forego fatty foods if I will live longer. Nadia 13.7 years ago