How to control high blood pressure without medications
Just because you have been told that your blood pressure is above normal need not mean that you are tied up to medications lifelong. Changes in lifestyle can definitely bring down your blood pressure even without medications. In those already taking medications, the dose of medications can be brought down by important lifestyle changes. Some lucky ones may be able to stop medications as well. But you have to continue monitoring your blood pressure regularly so that any recurrence can be picked up.
One of the important ways in which to reduce elevated blood pressure is by reducing extra weight. Roughly the blood pressure mi...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 6, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What Is the Microbiome?
Have you ever noticed a skin care product advertised as “microbiome friendly” and wondered what that meant? The microbiome is the collection of all the microbes—including bacteria, viruses, and fungi—that live in a specific environment, such as on the skin or in the digestive tract.
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacterial species commonly found in the human intestine. While some strains of E. coli cause foodborne illness, others are helpful members of the gut microbiome.Credit: Mark Ellisman and Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego.
It’s ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 20, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Common questions Microbes Microbiome Source Type: blogs
Whole Roasted Squash With Tomato-Ginger Chickpeas & Za ’atar
I read myself the riot act about 6 months ago, when my cholesterol level reached a new high. My doctor seemed nonplussed, perhaps because my cardiac calcium score was a perfect zero. But I was not happy. Yes, I had lost weight and was exercising, but to be honest, my heart belonged to cheese. And eggs. And ice cream. Something had to change.
Breakfast was easy. The whole eggs (which I had been eating almost daily) were replaced by Starbucks Sous Vide Egg whites or oatmeal served with a side of chicken sausage. Lunches were yogurt or soup or vegan bean burritos or salad or tuna or peanut butter. I started snacking on nu...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 21, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables Butternut Squash Chickpeas vegetarian za'atar Source Type: blogs
This Red Vegetable Significantly Lowers Blood Pressure (M)
Lower blood pressure naturally in 3 months by taking 70 ml of this vegetable juice a day. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Blood Pressure subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
5 Simple Habits and Routines to Keep You Away from Depression and Stress
One of the major problems facing today’s generation is depression. Excessive workload, changing lifestyle, loneliness, and financial pressure all lead to stress which results in depression. You feel unhappy, non-productive and withdrawn when you are depressed.
Many experts believe that establishing routines filled with healthy habits is a great way to move more efficiently through your day while expending less mental energy and even willpower in the process. Following simple routines like exercising, eating the right food, taking energy supplements, meditating, and getting sufficient sleep can help to manage str...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: jaya Tags: career confidence depression featured happiness health and fitness meditation motivation productivity tips self-improvement habits routines stress Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 4th 2023
This study produced a great deal of data that continues to be mined for insights into human aging and effects of calorie restriction in a long-lived species such as our own, to contrast with the sizable effects on health and longevity in short-lived species such as mice.
In particular, and the topic for today, cellular senescence and its role in degenerative aging has garnered far greater interest in the research community in the years since the CALERIE study took place. Thus in today's open access paper, scientists examine CALERIE study data to find evidence for calorie restriction to reduce the burden of cellular ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Effects of Diet on Life Expectancy
It is somewhat interesting to see a careful analysis of diet and life expectancy, using the sizable UK Biobank population, that does not contain any of the words "calorie", "weight", or "obesity". The effects of calorie intake on health over the long-term are sizable, even if we focus only on mechanisms associated with the gain of weight. Visceral fat is metabolically active, generates an increased burden of senescent cells, and contributes to the chronic inflammation of aging via a range of different mechanisms.
Thus one would assume that buried underneath this set of data on what it is that people eat is a more re...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
If It Were Not So Serious One Could Ba Amused By This.
This appeared
last week:
Man crushed to death by robot that mistook him for a box of vegetables
By David Millward
November 9, 2023 — 11.30am
A
South Korean man has been crushed to death by an industrial robot that mistook
him for a box of vegetables.
The
man, who was in his 40s, had been in specting a problem with the robot’s sensor
at a distribution centre for agricultural produce in South (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
A new approach shifts thought patterns to improve mood
Imagine this … You’re shown a number of words one after another: “lettuce, tomato, green, head, vegetable, cabbage, carrot, food, leaf, salad, hamburger.” Then, you’re shown a different set of words: “thread, needle, shot, nurse, drugs, alcohol, wine, cheese, mouse, cat, dog, bone.” Notice any difference between the two chains of words – or even
Read more…
A new approach shifts thought patterns to improve mood originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Moshe Bar, PhD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Great Food Can Improve Brain Development (Even Before Birth)
What we eat – and what our kids eat – affects so much in life: appearance, energy, cognition, focus, mood, how often we get sick, how quickly we get better, how likely we are to develop a chronic disease, and how we age.
Every bite of food is either an investment in our future, a new debt we are taking out, or some of both.
There are many ways to enjoy the benefits of real food. One healthy way of eating that has been studied a lot is the Mediterranean diet, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, fish, herbs, spices, and olive oil. Red meats, processed foods, and added sugars are limited.
...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - September 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Mediterranean Diet Pregnancy Nutrition Top Family Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 4th 2023
In conclusion, although the contribution of CRF to GrimAgeAccel and FitAgeAccel is relatively low compared to lifestyle-related factors such as smoking, the results suggest that the maintenance of CRF is associated with delayed biological ageing in older men.
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Release of Acetylcholine is Necessary for the Aging Brain to Compensate for a Lack of Neurogenesis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/09/release-of-acetylcholine-is-necessary-for-the-aging-brain-to-compensate-for-a-lack-of-neurogenesis/
Neurogenesis is the process by which new neurons are created by neural stem c...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Quality of Diet versus Pace of Aging
Given the advent of various clocks that measure biological age, one might expect that the research community will repeat and update past efforts to quantify the effects of diet, exercise, and other lifestyle factors on the long-term risk of age-related disease and mortality. The open access paper here is an example of this sort of work, focused on the impact of diet. The researchers made use of their own aging clock based on simple biomarkers, similar to Phenotypic Age, in order to determine a relationship between dietary quality and pace of aging.
In this prospective cohort study of 12,784 participants, based on ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Best Blood Pressure Monitors During Pregnancy
Conclusion
Pregnancy is a period in a woman’s life where health monitoring becomes crucial, and one key aspect that requires regular monitoring is blood pressure.
Elevated blood pressure during pregnancy can lead to severe complications, such as preeclampsia, which poses risks to both the mother and the unborn child.
This guide provides comprehensive information on selecting the best blood pressure monitor during pregnancy, considering the vast array of options available in the marketplace.
It highlights the essential features to consider, such as accuracy, ease of use, and additional features like irregu...
Source: The EMT Spot - August 28, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Monitors Source Type: blogs
