Judging by the huge numbers of high blood pressure medications being prescribed today – especially to older adults – high blood pressure seems to have reached epidemic proportions. The catch is that these medications do not promote healing nor do they prevent heart attacks and strokes. Due to serious side
If you want to lower high blood pressure without side effects, look no further than celery. The ability of celery to lower high blood pressure has long been acknowledged by Chinese practitioners. Modern researchers are in the process of documenting what the Chinese have known for centuries. This process began
Statins are hailed as a wonder drug in the fight against heart disease, with some doctors going as far as recommending that they be prescribed to everyone over the age of 50. But what about the 1 in 5 users that suffer potentially devastating side effects? Reducing cholesterol naturally lowers your
The bright red fruit of summer has been causing controversy in the media recently with researchers claiming that tomatoes work as well as statins for lowering cholesterol, so it seemed a good time to assess the many health benefits of this wonder food. The recent interest in tomatoes has been due
Eat eggs to cut risk of heart disease? It just doesn’t sound right after all the years we have been told to avoid eggs. But that’s how food technology works. Before it can get people to throw out the real foods that have kept their ancestors healthy for hundreds of
Almost 32 million Americans take a statin drug such as Lipitor, Crestor or Zocor to help manage their high cholesterol. Unfortunately, many people who take them say they felt much better before they started taking statin drugs. The reason behind this is that statins create side effects like headache, fatigue,
Aspirin, one of the first drugs to come into common usage, is probably the most widely used drug in the world. Approximately 35,000 metric tons are produced and consumed each year, enough to make over 100 billion standard aspirin tablets. Each year over 60 billion aspirin tablets are taken worldwide,
Eating beets can significantly lower blood pressure within an hour, and keep it down all day, according to a UK study. It seems that beets could be a gentler alternative to blood pressure medications, and a natural way to beat the hypertension that causes the majority of cardiovascular disease. Beets could well
Recommendations issued by the U.K.’s Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin suggest that the regular use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks should stop. While patients who already have cardiovascular disease may benefit from aspirin treatment, the risks to healthy individuals are seen to outweigh the benefits. Why is aspirin prescribed to
Some say that everyone dies from cardiovascular disease. This is because, at some point, the brain stops receiving oxygen and we die. Whether this is a fair rendition or not, it certainly is true that cardiovascular disease has killed more than any war in modern history and more than any
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