Why Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Rise With Age

by Julissa Clay | Apr 7, 2012 | 26 comments

Is there a single reason why these levels creep into the danger zone with age? Most doctors will tell you no… that there are simply too many other variables that accompany aging that will affect blood pressure, cholesterol, sexual performance, metabolism, etc. But are...

High Fat and High Blood Pressure: Fiction of Fact?

by Christian Goodman | Apr 6, 2012 | 17 comments

High fat diets have been targeted as unhealthy and a serious cause of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes for over 30 years now. Lately however, there has been great dispute over if this is actually true or not. A new study from the...

What Causes Stroke and Heart Attack… Really!

by Christian Goodman | Apr 3, 2012 | 42 comments

One minute he was walking ahead of me on a 10 miles hike, cursing me (jokingly) for being lazy and dragging behind, the next, he was lying down holding his chest in agony. That’s how I experienced my favorite uncle’s heart attack when I was 10 years old. And that’s...

Squeezing Rubber Ball Drops Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 2, 2012 | 22 comments

Some of the 80 million adults in the United States with high blood pressure may want to put down their drugs and pick up a rubber ball. According to a study from the Journal of Hypertension, 10-minutes per day, 3-days per week of hand grip training is enough to...

No Downside to These 5 BP-Lowering Foods

by Christian Goodman | Mar 31, 2012 | 47 comments

Scientists have shown over recent years that a handful of well-known minerals are the key to naturally reducing high blood pressure. However, they have also seen that supplements for these very important players, while helpful, are not nearly as powerful as getting...

Amino Acid Helps Protect Heart From Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Mar 26, 2012 | 10 comments

Eating large quantities of the amino acid taurine – obtained mostly from poultry rich diet – may help promote heart health and shield the cardiovascular system from cholesterol-related damage. This research, conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center scientists, tested...