10 Methods To Prevent Low Blood Pressure: Steps Toward Optimal Health
Conclusion
To sum things up, preventing low blood pressure is crucial for maintaining overall well-being and avoiding potential health complications.
By adopting preventive measures, individuals can take control of their health and make informed choices to promote stable blood pressure levels.
Incorporating practices such as staying hydrated, maintaining a balanced diet, engaging in regular physical activity, managing stress effectively, and monitoring medications can significantly reduce the likelihood of experiencing low blood pressure episodes and associated symptoms.
Prevention not only reduces immediate he...
Source: The EMT Spot - June 18, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
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Write What You KnowAnytime you ' re stuck or sounding derivative that ’s what they always say. Write what you know. For the longest time I ignored it. Deluded by the arrogance of the overlooked. For fruitless years I wrote about rivers even though I’m clueless. Landlocked and sea sick. I hate to fish. All my rivers just wind and shimmer, wind and shimmer. They bec ome chlorinated lazy rivers lily padded with sunburnt bodies wafting along in blow up rafts. Meanwhile I ' m just using them to skip a stone to the other side. Do you know how long it takes to really know if you know anything? I know a little bit, I ' l...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 6, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Can You Eat Spicy Foods With Hypertension?
Conclusion
In conclusion, for those who can tolerate it, the regular consumption of spicy foods might be more beneficial for people with hypertension than one would think.
However, the key to managing hypertension is a balanced, heart-healthy diet complemented by regular exercise and lifestyle modifications.
Always consult with your healthcare provider before making significant changes to your diet or starting any supplement regimen, especially if you are managing a health condition like hypertension.
References
Enjoyment of Spicy Flavor Enhances Central Salty-Taste Perception and Reduces Salt Intake and Bloo...
Source: The EMT Spot - June 5, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Black Terns on a camping trip
TL:DR – Record shots of the three Black Terns at a local RSPB reserve.
They say that one good tern deserves another, if you’re talking comic terns. So, when you go looking for one and three come along all at once it’s quite amusing.
As I mentioned in a previous post about processing low-light photos, we were camping, locally…so local in fact that when three Black Terns were mentioned as being present on Ferry Lagoon at RSPB Fen Drayton it was only a short hop from RSPB Ouse Fen where we were camping to get a view of them.
Black Tern on a pontoon
Of course the birds were fishing in the waters there ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Hit the snooze button
Ch. 3 is the kind of list of meaningless names of which the Chronicler was fond. There is no reason to read this. The question is why it ' s here at all -- what was the author ' s purpose in making this list? We can guess that it ' s intended as a sort of honor roll, a way of building community by acknowledging everyone ' s contribution to rebuilding the city wall. I would presume that the people who are named didn ' t personally, physically do the work. That would be impractical, the actual building would have been done by a crew of appropriately skilled tradesmen, which would mean this is actually a list of donors, like ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 31, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
La Sombrita, or, How to Fail at Infrastructure
Paul MatzkoLos Angeles spent $200,000 on La Sombrita ( ‘“in the shade”), a bus stop shade/light structure that provides littleshade or light. It has been almost too easy to criticize its design, the token DEI framing given to the project, how most of the funds went to a global junket for the designers, or the fact that city officials held a tone deaf celebratory press conference for its unveiling. Would this “make waiting for the bus at night [feel]safer” to you?But La Sombrita isn ’t really the problem. Rather, its failures are symptoms of its designers trying to work around deeper, structural problems ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 22nd 2023
Conclusions to be Drawn
A High Fat Diet Accelerates Atherosclerosis Less Directly than One Might Suspect
How to Construct Measures of Biological Age
A Long-Term Comparison of Metformin in Diabetics with Non-Diabetic Controls
In Search of Distinctive Features of the Gut Microbiome in Long-Lived Individuals
Greater Fitness in Humans Implies a Younger Epigenome and Transcriptome
Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction as a Feature of Aging in Many Species
NAFLD as an Age-Related Condition
Towards Sensory Hair Cell Regeneration in the Inner Ear
Raised Leve...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction as a Feature of Aging in Many Species
One of the more noteworthy aspect of fly aging is the degree to which it is centered around intestinal dysfunction. Increasing leakage of the intestinal barrier is a feature of aging in many species, however, as noted here. When the intestinal barrier is compromised, the result is an invasion of tissues by gut microbes, provoking chronic inflammation throughout the body and further consequent dysfunction.
A major challenge in the biology of aging is to understand how specific age-onset pathologies relate to the overall health of the organism. The integrity of the intestinal epithelium is essential for the wellbein...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 17, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 24th 2023
In this study, researchers show that mice lacking a functional ATF4 gene show little to no loss of grip strength and treadmill performance into late life; it is quite an impressive effect size. Assessments of muscle biochemistry do show age-related declines, but to a lesser degree than the controls. How ATF4 knockout functions to produce this outcome is an interesting question. The researchers point out a range of possible downstream and upstream targets that have been implicated in the regulation of muscle growth, but it will clearly require further work to identify the important mechanisms involved.
Aging slowly...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Ode to a Smoked Trout Lyonnaise
Moving to Philly and being retired means I get to visit Valley Green as often as I want. So, last week I met Susan for lunch at Brunos and a post-prandial walk along Forbidden Drive. There, we encountered a battalion of rubber-booted fisherman standing in the stream and parade of pickups and cars following a small tanker truck along the path.
Yes folks, it was trout-stocking day on the Wissahickon.
Which got me remembering the time Lou caught some gorgeous trout in the Loyalsock River, which we brined and smoked on the Weber in the back yard at our cottage. Gotta’ get Lou back up to the mountains this ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - April 21, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Fish Salads bacon lyonnaise salade Smoked trout Valley Green Wissahickon Source Type: blogs
Reviewing the Aging of the Gut Microbiome
Researchers here take a high level tour of what is known of age-related changes in the gut microbiome and how they influence health. Accumulating evidence shows a loss of beneficial populations that generate useful metabolites such as butyrate, accompanied by an increase in harmful populations that can provoke chronic inflammation. This is a likely a meaningful contribution to the onset and development age-related conditions, making it a priority to develop ways to reset the balance of populations in the gut microbiome. The best of the available approaches, given the evidence to date, is fecal microbiota transplantation fr...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 17th 2023
In conclusion, oral NR altered the gut microbiota in rats and mice, but not in humans. In addition, NR attenuated body fat mass gain in rats, and increased fat and energy absorption in the HFD context.
Glycine Supplementation as a Methionine Restriction Mimetic
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/04/glycine-supplementation-as-a-methionine-restriction-mimetic/
Supplementation with the non-essential amino acid glycine has been shown to modestly slow aging in short-lived laboratory species. In today's open access review paper, researchers note glycine supplementation as essentially a calorie restricti...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
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Au SableThe summer before residency started in ChicagoI went north to Grayling, Michigan with a backpackAnd the last of a dreamy eyed sociopathic certaintyTo spend a weekend fly fishing on the edgesOf the swift black flat Au Sable river.I thought I had it all won,I ’d played some cards wellParlayed a little luck into a tidy stack That bought me access to higher stakes tables. I was ready to roll the dice and gamble.But first, before sitting down with the high rollersIt was off to the swift black Au Sable river In the summer before the illusions fractured,Before I realized everything I hadBarely cover...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 16, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Attracting birds to your garden
Sciencebase reader Michelle messaged to ask how she might attract more birds to her garden. There are plenty of things she can try to see more of our feathered friends on her patch. Some things will have an almost immediate effect others might take a little longer. The rewards are always worth the effort to see the variety and numbers of birds that can appear. I have an article about the birds you might see in an English country garden.
Blue Tit
What to do
The most obvious thing to do is to ask what the birds need and then try to fulfill those needs: water, food, shelter/cover, somewhere to nest.
So, you could put out a co...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
2 Portions Of This Fish Prevents Type 2 Diabetes
This fish contains nutrients that can prevent type 2 diabetes and diminish heart disease risk. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
