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FEATURED ARTICLE Vitality 101 News: August 6, 2008

Hypertension; Heart Health Part 3

Dear Readers,

Hypertension is a significant risk factor for heart disease, and it is worth keeping your pressure under 140/85. Most doctors, however, never really find or even look for the underlying cause of an elevated blood pressure. Given that they have an average of less than seven minutes per doctor visit, and that pharmaceutical companies making blood pressure products spend a fortune teaching doctors about medications and almost nothing on the natural treatments or looking for the cause of the high blood pressure, it is no surprise that most doctors' mindset is to simply give medications.

Unlike cholesterol medicines, which may be more harmful than helpful for most people (a future newsletter article will talk about lowering cholesterol naturally), blood pressure medications actually do save a lot of lives. If you do have elevated blood pressure, I recommend adding (or continuing) the medications to lower the pressure, and then using the natural treatments below. After three months, you'll often find that you can taper off your blood pressure medications and still maintain a healthy pressure.

In this article, we will discuss both lifestyle and nutritional approaches that can be very helpful for lowering your blood pressure.

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UPCOMING UK APPEARANCES

For Our United Kingdom Readers

Dr. Teitelbaum will be lecturing and doing media appearances in England and Scotland August 17-22, 2008. See our lecture and media schedule for more info.

RESEARCH BRIEFS

We sometimes forget the goal is not simply to lower blood pressure or cholesterol, but rather to do so to decrease the risk of heart disease or stroke. You won't hear of most of the research below because there is simply not much money to be made by promoting these cheap and natural approaches. Funny thing about our bodies—cheap and natural is often much more effective than expensive, synthetic, and toxic (i.e., medications).

Coenzyme Q10 Beneficial in Metabolic Syndrome

Coenzyme Q10 may decrease the risk of heart disease in people with metabolic syndrome. Read more »

Eating Fish Prevents Heart Attacks

Eating fish significantly decreases the risk of a repeat heart attack. Read more »

Veggies (High in Alpha Linolenic Acid) Decrease Heart Attack Risk

Get your veggies to protect your heart too (goes well with fish;-). Read more »

Dark Chocolate Lowers Blood Pressure and Protects Your Heart

Dark chocolate is also heart healthy—and lowers high blood pressure. Read more »

FEATURED QUESTIONS FROM READERS

Q: Ribose made her cervical dystonia (severe neck spasm) go away. Read more »

Q: Feeling worse and blood tests increasing on Valcyte. Read more »

Q: Blood Pressure is poorly controlled on medications. Read more »

Q: Why do I only recommend 100 units of vitamin E? Answer »

COOL STUFF

Amazing Duck Story

A true story of mom and her devoted ducklings. Read more »

QUOTE/JOKE OF THE WEEK

This Week's Quote

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Week's Joke

A man takes his hamster to the vet, and after a short look at the creature the vet pronounces it dead.

Not happy with the vet's diagnosis the man asks for a second opinion. The vet gives a whistle and in strolls a Labrador dog. The dog nudges the hamster around with its nose and sniffs it a couple of times before shaking his head. "There" says the vet," Your hamster is dead."

Still not happy the man asks for a third opinion. The vet opens the back door and in bounds a cat. The cat jumps onto the table and looks the hamster up and down for a few minutes before looking up and shaking it's head. "It's definitely dead sir," says the vet.

Convinced, the man enquires how much he owes. "That will be $500, please."

"$500 just to tell me my hamster is dead!" fumes the man.

"Well," says the vet, "My diagnosis was $50, but the lab report and the cat scan cost $450!"

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Our thanks to Gwen for this week's joke. Gwen wins a free bottle of Corvalen or the Energy Revitalization System vitamin powder;-) We invite you to send in your favorite jokes or quotes.

LECTURES & MEDIA APPEARANCES

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Visit our website to see a list of Dr. Teitelbaum's upcoming Speaking Engagements or to see some of his appearances in the Media.

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Some information on this site is from the book From Fatigued to Fantastic! Third Edition by Jacob Teitelbaum MD, copyright 2007 by Jacob Teitelbaum MD. Used by permission of Avery Publishing, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.


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