For thirty years estrogen was one of your body's strongest antioxidant defenses, quietly keeping your LDL cholesterol from oxidizing.
That matters more than the number on your test. Cholesterol doesn't clog arteries on its own - it becomes dangerous when it oxidizes, when it turns rancid the way oil does when it's left open.
Only then does your body attack it and turn it into plaque. Your test counts how much you have. It doesn't tell you how much has already turned.
When estrogen dropped, that protection dropped with it. Your cholesterol didn't rise because you started eating differently at 52 - it rose because the shield came down.
Lhab Amla is a single-ingredient extract of Indian gooseberry, standardized for emblicanins, the polyphenols studied for protecting LDL from oxidation.
Two capsule a day.
It doesn't lower the number. It works on what makes the number dangerous.