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Your Heart and Blood Vessels on Soy: 5 Things to Know
Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/joming/ A simple Google search will leave you confused about whether eating soy is good for your heart and blood vessels or as evil as Twinkies. Ok…so...
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Na+/H+ exchanger w/ hyperinsulinemia in borderline hypertensive rats Here is another article (albeit a rat study) that begins to dispell the idea of most cases of hypertension being “essential.”...
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Side Effects of Blood Pressure Medication-Women Better Read This
Photo courtesy of http://www.sxc.hu/profile/CWMGary Calcium Channel Blockers (think “dipine” or “amil” names) are common blood pressure medications. Much like every drug, this class comes with its...
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Blood Pressure Meds in Older Adults Kill Quality of Life
Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/safari_vacation/ Keeping blood pressure under control is a main focus of mainstream medicine, especially as we age. We always use blood pressure...
View ArticleInsulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction and essential hypertension –...
Insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction and essential hypertension This study suggests a link between endothelial dysfunction (one of three layers of cells making up the arteries), essential...
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Are You Following a Low Sodium Diet?
Photo courtesy of http://www.sxc.hu/profile/j2robins For quite a few years, the general consensus to lower risk of heart disease and hypertension was to stick with a low salt diet. Hopefully you...
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How Compliant are You with Your Heart Meds?
Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/hippie/ Let’s face it. The general public sucks at taking their meds the way they are supposed to. But it’s still going to help, right? Studies have...
View ArticleBlood Lead, BP, and Hypertension – (03-31-03)
Blood Lead, BP, and Hypertension. Heavy metals are widely overlooked by mainstream medicine despite heavy research into their affects on human health. Here we see links with hypertension. Of additional...
View ArticleLawsuits Allege Conspiracy in Ritalin Use – (10-19-00)
Lawsuits Allege Conspiracy in Ritalin Use There is no question that our children are over-medicated, but this lawsuit raises some very important questions as to the “creation” of a new behavioural...
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Blood Pressure and Brain Shrinkage in Diabetes; My Numbers are “Under Control”
Photo courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/ Man do I hate that phrase, yet I hear it all the time. Mainstream medicine has created a false sense of safety that is merely an illusion. I have...
View ArticleBlood Pressure Meds in Older Adults Kill Quality of Life
Keeping blood pressure under control is a main focus of mainstream medicine, especially as we age. We always use blood pressure medication to achieve this end. But what if this makes us worse off?? I...
View ArticleInsulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction and essential hypertension –...
Insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction and essential hypertension This study suggests a link between endothelial dysfunction (one of three layers of cells making up the arteries), essential...
View ArticleAre You Following a Low Sodium Diet?
For quite a few years, the general consensus to lower risk of heart disease and hypertension was to stick with a low salt diet. Hopefully you didn’t follow buy into the dogma. I’m not entirely sure...
View ArticleHow Compliant are You with Your Heart Meds?
Let’s face it. The general public sucks at taking their meds the way they are supposed to. But it’s still going to help, right? Studies have shown that upwards of 75% of patients taking medications...
View ArticleBlood Lead, BP, and Hypertension – (03-31-03)
Blood Lead, BP, and Hypertension. Heavy metals are widely overlooked by mainstream medicine despite heavy research into their affects on human health. Here we see links with hypertension. Of additional...
View ArticleLawsuits Allege Conspiracy in Ritalin Use – (10-19-00)
Lawsuits Allege Conspiracy in Ritalin Use There is no question that our children are over-medicated, but this lawsuit raises some very important questions as to the “creation” of a new behavioural...
View ArticleBlood Pressure and Brain Shrinkage in Diabetes; My Numbers are “Under Control”
Man do I hate that phrase, yet I hear it all the time. Mainstream medicine has created a false sense of safety that is merely an illusion. I have certainly talked about the use of surrogate end markers...
View ArticleCalcium Channel Blockers Increase Heart Failure Risk
ANOTHER DRUG FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASES RISK OF DEATH?? Seriously. First we see a meta analysis several years back of 95,000 patients on beta blockers that had increased risk of diabetes and...
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Think You’re Not at Risk for Heart Disease? Take This Test and Find Out
McCarony/Dollar Photo Club Heart disease is not something that we need to educate the public on. Everyone’s got ideas on how to prevent heart disease. But, apparently, there’s some massive disconnect...
View ArticleCan Artificial Lighting Raise Blood Pressure?
As a way of background, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is nitric oxide’s (NO) arch enemy. NO is a small molecule that helps blood vessels relax, leading to a lower blood pressure. Just in case you...
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