Natural & Integrative Cholesterol Support
Root-cause, lab-driven care to lower your cholesterol and reduce your cardiovascular risk.
Serving Hopkins and the west metro, including Minnetonka, Edina, Eden Prairie, and St. Louis Park, plus telehealth across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Maybe your last panel came back high and the only options offered were a statin or a recheck in six months. Maybe you tried a medication and couldn't tolerate it, or you'd rather understand why your cholesterol is high before committing to a prescription. Cholesterol is rarely the whole story. It sits alongside diet, blood sugar, inflammation, thyroid function, and genetics, and those connections are where real change happens.
At Panka Natural Health, we take a whole-person, evidence-informed approach to cholesterol. We look deeper than a standard panel, identify what's actually driving your numbers, and build a plan to bring them down, working alongside your primary care physician rather than around them. Dr. Jacob Panka brings a particular focus to cardiometabolic health.
See What a Standard Cholesterol Panel Misses
A basic panel (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides) tells only part of the story. Our advanced lipid and cardiometabolic testing looks at the markers that better predict risk, and we re-measure over time so your progress shows up in the numbers, not just in how you feel.
Address Why Your Cholesterol Is High, Not Just the Number
We build a personalized plan using clinical nutrition, targeted supplementation, botanical medicine, and lifestyle change, each chosen for your physiology and your goals, and each checked for interactions with your current medications.
Avoid a Statin, Reduce One, or Optimize Alongside It
Many patients come to us wanting to lower cholesterol without medication, after struggling with statin side effects, or hoping to reduce a dose. Others are already on a statin and want to do everything else right. We meet you where you are and coordinate with your prescribing physician. We never ask you to stop or change a medication on your own.
High LDL or total cholesterol
High ApoB or LDL particle number
Elevated Lipoprotein(a)
High triglycerides or low HDL
Statin intolerance or medication side effects
A family history of high cholesterol or early heart disease
Wanting to address cholesterol before starting medication
Optimizing your numbers while already on a statin
Who This Is For
Testing That Goes Beyond a Standard Panel
A routine cholesterol panel checks a handful of basics and usually stops there. We look at the fuller picture: advanced lipid and particle markers, the inflammatory and metabolic factors that push cholesterol up, and the genetic risks that change how aggressively we treat. The value isn't a longer lab list. It's knowing which tests actually fit your situation, reading them together, and turning the results into a plan.
We set your baseline and re-measure over time, so you can see your progress and we can adjust your plan to the data.
How We Work
A thorough initial consultation. We review your full history, your labs, your medications, and what's driving your numbers.
Targeted testing. We order the advanced markers above as appropriate and interpret them through a functional lens.
A clear, personalized plan. Nutrition, targeted supplementation, botanical medicine, and lifestyle change, coordinated with your existing providers and explained so you understand the reason behind each step.
We're a pay-per-visit clinic with no membership and no bundled commitment. Current fees for new and follow-up visits are always live on our scheduling page, supplements and lab tests are billed separately, and we provide a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement
FAQs
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For some people, yes. Diet, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle change can meaningfully improve cholesterol and the factors behind it. Results vary, and we coordinate with your prescribing physician so any decision about medication is made together.
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This is one of the most common reasons people come to us. We focus on the nutrition, supplement, and lifestyle strategies that support healthy cholesterol, and we work alongside your prescribing physician on any medication questions.
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Yes. Medication addresses one piece. We help with everything around it, diet, inflammation, blood sugar, and the lifestyle factors that affect your long-term risk, and we track your numbers over time.
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More than a standard cholesterol panel. Depending on your history and goals, we look at advanced lipid, inflammatory, metabolic, and genetic markers that routine checkups skip. The real value is choosing the right tests for you and interpreting them in context, which is what turns a number on a page into a plan you can act on.
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Yes, to patients located in Minnesota (where we're registered) or Wisconsin (where we're licensed), with in-person visits at our Hopkins clinic.
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We're a pay-per-visit clinic with no membership. Current fees are live on our scheduling page. Supplements and lab tests are billed separately, and we can provide a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Ready to understand your numbers?
Book a free 10-minute intro call to talk through your cholesterol and whether our approach is a fit. No obligation, and no doctor-patient relationship is established on the call.