This Type 2 Diabetes Drug Causes Enlarged Pancreas

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 16, 2013 | 5 comments

Drugs that are used to increase the hormone glucagon in the gut to treat diabetes have come under fire recently, after researchers looked at the pancreas of deceased patients taking the drugs. Their findings were startling and unsettling, considering that people with...

Surprising News About High Blood Pressure Measurement

by Christian Goodman | Apr 15, 2013 | 8 comments

A controversial new study looking at Mayo Clinic patients was recently published that challenges what most people- including doctors- understand about when and how to have blood pressure measured. This could mean that millions of people were unnecessarily put on...

How Sleeplessness Causes Heart Attack

by Christian Goodman | Apr 14, 2013 | 2 comments

A mega-study involving more than 54,000 participants has caused a stir, as published in the European Heart Journal recently. The massive study- to date, the largest of its kind- looked at the effects of insomnia on health and found disturbing evidence of how it causes...

The Best Exercises for High Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 13, 2013 | 6 comments

Finding the best exercise to lower blood pressure, according to many Western physicians, might seem to be a moving target, especially when there are so many exercise plans hitting the consumer stream these days. According to a new study published by the American Heart...

Does Type 2 Diabetes Cause Alzheimer’s?

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 12, 2013 | 2 comments

Type 2 diabetes is quickly becoming one of the worst pandemics in the history of the world. Its effects are widespread, causing symptoms and effects from everything like vision and blood pressure problems to kidney failure. Having excess sugar in the blood is the...

Strange Effect of High Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 11, 2013 | 2 comments

Why in the world might your eye doctor want to take your blood pressure? Is it possible that by controlling your blood pressure, you could get rid of those irritating reading glasses? Growing evidence linking blood pressure to eyesight is leading many industry...