Indian gooseberry extracts put to the test head-to-head against cholesterol-lowing statin drugs and the blood thinners aspirin and Plavix. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Support NutritionFacts.org with a donation at http://www.NutritionFacts.org/donate. I profile the study that used the whole fruit in my previous video, The Best Food for High Cholesterol (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Best-Food-for-High-Cholesterol). The double-edged sword of patenting natural substances comes up over and over. For example, Plants as Intellectual Property – Patently Wrong? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plants-as-intellectual-property-patently-wrong/) With a healthier diet neither drugs or supplements may be necessary: • Heart Attacks and Cholesterol: Purely a Question of Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-attacks-and-cholesterol-purely-a-question-of-diet/) • Fast Food: Do You Want Fries With That Lipitor? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fast-food-do-you-want-fries-with-that-lipitor/) • Diet Versus Drugs for High Cholesterol (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-versus-drugs-for-high-cholesterol/) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-vs-drugs-for-cholesterol-inflammation-and-blood-thinning and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-vs-drugs-for-cholesterol-inflammation-and-blood-thinning. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Icons created by Parkjisun from The Noun Project. Image credit: Kristina DeMuth https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org