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 certainly seem to be on a rampage lately on the issue of blood pressure and blood pressure medications (including a […]
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), […]
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 […]
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; a Feature of the Metabolic Syndrome We have identified a host of conditions associated with impaired insulin sensitivity such as hypertension, heart disease, hypercholesterolemia and abdominal adiposity. We can now add fatty liver disease to the list. On the converse side, that would also mean that any patient with liver problems […]
