For centuries children and adults did ok treating high cholesterol with home remedies. why can't i?

Better options: You can treat yourself by modifying your life style, e.g., getting to your optimum weight through diet and exercise, cutting down intake of saturated fats and carbohydrates, taking diet high in soluble fiber etc. However, more effective treatments are available that are better at preventing diseases due to high cholesterol. Even with the drugs, modifying your lifestyle is important.

Actually,not so much: First, cholesterol elevation as a health risk factor has only been recognized for decades, not centuries. Second, people died much younger in the past, so atherosclerosis had not enough time to develop. Third, diet and lifestyle today are far more atherogenic. Fourth, home remedies have little, if any, evidence that they actually alter outcomes, and modern treatments are validated for benefit.

Let's think: Sam, no disrespect is intended. Go to an old cemetery and see how long people used lived "taking natural remedies." when i was born in 1952, we didn't treat high cholesterol and simply accepted that the average man died at age 68 and nobody thought anything of fatal heart attacks at age 30. While i prefer exercise / lifestyle changes over meds, some folks need meds too.