Calcium Channel Blockers (think “dipine” or “amil” names) are common blood pressure medications. Much like every drug, this class comes with its list of side effects, but I’ll bet you didn’t know this was on the list. Every drug comes with side effects. That’s the price we pay to mess with physiology the way Mother Nature […]
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.” Hyperinsulinemia is slowly appearing as a potential culprit in the development of this previous unknown etiology disease. Synergy : European Journal of Clinical Investigation 31 (3), […]
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 nothing could be as evil as Twinkies. But what IS the deal with soy? Is it good for us, or does it vaporizes the thyroid, cause breast cancer and […]
Large Artery Stiffness Accompanies the Insulin Resistance Syndrome I am a firm believer that, as we discover more and more about the arteries and their modulation by insulin, that the concept of “essential” hypertension will fall by the wayside. 90% of HTN is essential with no known cause. It very well may be that the […]
Blood pressure medication use below 160/100 is worthless. While nothing in medical research is set in stone, some things are close. A review done by the Cochrane Collaboration in 2012, a worldwide medical research think-tank, found that there was no evidence that drug treatment of high blood pressure for systolic below 160 and diastolic below […]
